Special Notice of Intent to Sole Source Award

Notice of Intent to Sole Source

THIS IS A NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT AND IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE QUOTES. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Joint Administrative Operations, Acquisition & Property Operations, Legacy Region 9. USFWS intends to award a firm fixed price sole source contract under the authority of FAR 6.302-1 only one responsible source to:

Kisters North America, Inc.
1520 Eureka RD STE 102
Roseville, CA 95661

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this requirement is 541514, computer systems design services. In 2021, Kisters built a series of scripts to help the USFWS migrate select WISKI configurations and data from each of the independent regional WISKI systems to a single centralized system. Due to time and resource constraints and the complexity of the WISKI database, the USFWS is now requesting more assistance from THE VENDOR to complete the migration process.
The object of this sole source award is to have Kisters migrate the sites, stations, parameters, time series, agents, ratings, measurements, metadata, reports, data, and all other necessary elements from four existing regional WISKI databases now operated by the USFWS into a single consolidated database currently identified as the Legacy Region 6 database. Kisters will migrate databases from Legacy Regions 1/8, 7, 3, and 2 into the Legacy Region 6 database. Kisterswill work with identified team members dedicated to each regional database. Kisters will migrate each regional database separately. Kisters will migrate the metadata for each regional database into the centralized system with the guidance and input from USFWS personnel.

This synopsis does not constitute a solicitation; however, if any interested party believes they can meet the above requirement, it may submit a statement of capabilities. The statement of capabilities must be submitted in writing and must contain clear and convincing evidence that competition of this requirement would be advantageous to the Government. If parties choose to respond, any cost associated with preparation and submission of data or any other cost incurred in response to this announcement are the sole responsibility of the respondent and will not be reimbursed by the Government.

Capability statements shall be submitted by e-mail ONLY as a Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF attachment to the following address: Lorenzo_aragon@fws.gov.

NO TELEPHONE REQUESTS/OFFERS WILL BE HONORED