Xerox Docushare License Maintenance Renewal

NASA/LARC has a requirement for Docushare 12 mothn support for Existing Installation including Base Server, 1680 CPX Licenses, 450 DocuShare Licenses, 20 Read Only Licenses, Developer Support, Incremental Server.
NASA/LARC intends to purchase the items from Xerox Corporation. Xerox is the manufacturer and sole provider for the required support renewal. The required annual support is handled soley by the source that sold it, which was originally Xerox Corporation. Therefore, the annual renewals must be purchased from Xerox directly. It would take substantial duplication of resources and time for another source to provide the required service and this additional expense is not expected to be recovered through competition.
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 12:00 p.m. local time on 10/27/2016. 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.