Oceans 3. 0 the Base Administration and Support Data Services

***NOAA's Acquisition & Grants Office, Western Acquisition Division-Boulder, NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (OER), intends to negotiation, on a sole source basis, under authority of FAR 13.106-1(b)(1), with Oceans Network Canada (ONC) out of Victoria, BC for the IT services of Oceans 3.0 including Seatube and website management IT services.

***The sole source determination is based on the NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (OER) requirement that Oceans Network Canada (ONC) are the sole service provider of Oceans 3.0 the Base Administration and Support Data Services Operational Support SeaTube. Oceans 3.0 is the only source that will suit our needs and thus there is only one service available. Oceans Network Canada (ONC) service is capable of providing the IT services required at the level of quality required because the services are unique or highly specialized. Oceans 3.0 IT services provides unique capabilities for real-time ship and shore based annotations of video streams, post cruise annotations by multiple users, and ability to combine various data sources together. To best of our research, these service capabilities are not available in any other solution. It will also greatly increase the quality of the data NOAA collects and will benefit NOAA and the marine science community in ways that are impossible to quantify. Without the robust integrated logging and annotation system services offered by Oceans 3.0 the data quality and discoverability of our new data set will be greatly reduced. Period of Performance: 09/30/22 through 09/29/23.

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