Notice of Intent to Sole Source

Added: Aug 13, 2015 9:00 am The Social Security Administration (SSA) intends to negotiate solely with PDFTron Systems Inc. located at 6780 Beatty St Unit 301, Vancouver, BC, V6B 2M1, Canada for software and maintenance under the authority of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 13.106-1(b)(1)(i) " Contracting officers may solicit from one source if the contracting officer determines that the circumstances of the contract action deem only one source reasonably available..."

PDFTron Systems Inc. proprietary PDFNet Core SDK (Windows) software and maintenance is only available from PDFTron Systems Inc., who is the sole source provider of the required software maintenance. Only PDFTron Systems Inc., has access to the source code necessary to provide the required maintenance subscription composed of version upgrades and updates, bug fixes and patches, and telephone/internet support. SSA intends to establish a firm fixed-price purchase order for PDFTron Systems Inc. proprietary PEDNet Core SDK (Windows) software maintenance with for a period of 12 months.

Written responses to this Notice shall contain sufficient documentation to establish a bona-fide capability to fulfill this requirement. Submissions shall not exceed 5MB. This is not a request for quotation. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed order based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. The Government will not notify respondents of the results of the information received. All submissions in response to this notice must be submitted in writing via email to sherrie.williams@ssa.gov no later than 12:00pm noon Thursday August 20, 2015. Telephone calls regarding this matter will neither be accepted nor returned.