Point of Sale System Sustainment

The Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Washington Contracting Office, contemplates issuing a sole source contract to Crimson Transaction Technologies (formerly Millenium Retail Solutions, Inc.) IAW FAR 6.302-1. The services required are for sustainment of the National Park Service Recreation Fee Management Program Point of Sale System (POSS) at Yosemite National Park, Castillo de San Marcos National Monument, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and Fort Pulaski National Monument. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals; however, all responsible sources may submit a capability statement which shall be considered by the agency.

Description: The work of this contract consists of providing ongoing system administration and technical support services for the sustainment of the National Park Service Point of Sale System (POSS), consisting of:

• Crimson Transaction Technologies proprietary Scoria software suite (formerly named In The Black (ITB))
• The NPS POSS Web Reports application
• PC-Based POS Terminals used at the POSS parks:
o Pippard Inc., Modular Retail Terminals (MRTs)
o Hewlett-Packard HP RP7800 POS terminal and subsequent models,
o WebDT tablet PC

Additionally, two parks, with critically failing equipment, Glacier National Park and Yellowstone National Park must be added to the POSS system. This will require purchase of additional POS terminal units along with appropriate peripherals, the POSS Scoria software licenses and configuration, installation, training and implementation.

The Government anticipates that Crimson Transaction Technologies is the only responsible source licensed or certified to modify or change the source code and database structure of the current POSS system.

Duration of the contract period: April 2015 to April 2017

Anticipated award date: April 27, 2015.

Points of Contact: The Contracting Officer for this acquisition is Marian Gordon, who may be reached at National Park Service, Washington Contracting Office, P.O. Box 25287, Denver, CO 80225-2787; email address: marian_gordon@nps.gov. Please Cc the Contract Specialist, Heather_Madsen@nps.gov, on all communications sent by email at heather_madsen@nps.gov.