Special Notice of Intent to Sole Source Award

Notice of Intent to Sole Source Award

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. USFWS IRTM Headquarters intends to award a firm fixed price sole source base plus four option year contract under the authority of FAR 6.302-1 only one responsible source to:
Hexagon US Federal, Inc.
301 Cochran RD SW
Huntsville, Alabama 35824

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this requirement is 541511, Custom Computer Programming Services. The object of this sole source award is to have continued access to the ERDAS software provided by Hexagon US Federal. Hexagon US Federal develops a suite of software products under the ERDAS label. This line of software products incorporates geospatial image processing and analysis and remote sensing into a single powerful, convenient package. ERDAS IMAGINE enables users to easily create value-added products such as 2D and 3D images, 3D flythrough movies and cartographic-quality map compositions from geospatial data. ERDAS software will be used by the USFWS for manipulating imagery data values and positions, making it possible to see features that would not normally be visible in remote sensing imagery and to locate geo-positions of features that would otherwise be graphical. The level of brightness or reflectance of light from the surfaces in the image can be helpful with vegetation analysis, prospecting for minerals etc. Other usage examples include linear feature extraction, generation of processing workflows, import/export of data for a wide variety of formats, orthorectification, mosaicking of imagery, LiDAR point cloud manipulation, stereo and automatic feature extraction of map data from imagery. Hexagon is the sole reseller of Erdas software. Hexagon has a BPA with the Department of Interior to sell maintenance of their software directly to Bureaus. The DOI BPA Contract number is 140G0123A0001. Hexagon US Federal's GSA Contract is 47QTCA18D003G.
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