Vaone software license and maintenance renewal

Added: May 08, 2015 4:17 pm ****Please contact Teresa Mueller, ARCS at teresa.a.mueller@nasa.gov to submit any questions or concerns regarding this announcement.****

NASA/MSFC has a requirement for (1) renewal of VA One Annual Lease Module and (2) renewals of Maintenance and Support for license modules currently in existence at MSFC.

NASA/MSFC intends to purchase the services from ESI-Group, North America on a sole source basis. ESI Group has proprietary copyrights on the existing VA One software, and is not available from any other known source. Only ESI Group possesses unique qualifications to provide the software lease, maintenance, and support of the copyrights and trade methods on the VA One source code.

The Government intends to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12.

Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform the effort in writing to the identified point of contact not later than 4:30 p.m. (CST) local time on May 14, 2015. Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed effort on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the government.

Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice.

All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency.

NASA Clause 1852.215-84, Ombudsman, is applicable. The Center Ombudsman for this acquisition can be found at http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/pub/p ub_library/Omb.html