Notice of Intent to Sole Source - Professor Yoto V. Yotov

The U. S. International Trade Commission (USITC or Commission), intends to solicit and award a Purchase Order to Yoto Yotov, 852 Margo Ln, Penn Valley, PA 19072, under the authority of FAR 6.302-1, Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements.   

The USITC anticipates award of a Purchase Order, on a sole source basis, to Yoto YotoV, to update  the Commission’s ITPD-E database to ITPD-S. The international trade and production dataset for estimation (ITPD-E) is currently being used extensively inside and outside the Commission. It is available online on Commission’s Gravity Portal. Inside the Commission, it is used as the main data source for gravity modeling. It is used in statutory studies, such as the TPA Retrospective study, and in staff research products. There is currently no comparable source of data. This requirement is for services to update the current version of the ITPD-E to ITPD-S.   The period of performance is August 31st , 2022 to August 30, 2023. 

The databases for these contracts were constructed by Yoto Yotov and his team and required custom methodology and techniques. Awarding this contract to another vendor would require Commission staff to spend significant time to bring the vendor up to speed on the underlying methodology and techniques, and require the vendor to spend significant time recreating code and understanding what the next steps are to extend the database.

This notice is not a request for competitive quotations.  A Request for Quote will not be available for this requirement.  The intent of this solicitation is for informational purposes only.  However, any information received within five days after the date of publication of this notice will be considered by the Government. Information in response to this notice may be sent to Sumit Rana, Contracting Officer, at sumit.rana@usitc.gov.  A determination by the Government not to compete this action is solely within the discretion of the Government.  Telephonic questions or requests are strongly discouraged.