SAS License Renewals

The Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) in the state of Florida is seeking to renew its licenses for SAS software, including Base SAS, SAS Access Interface to ODBC, SAS Access Interface to PC Files, SAS STAT, SAS ETS, and SAS Graph. AHCA currently has 30 active Base SAS licenses, which are used by staff in the Division of Health Quality Assurance and the Division of Medicaid for various data analysis and reporting tasks. The intended single source for these license renewals is SAS Institute Inc., as AHCA's current licenses are non-transferrable. The estimated dollar amount for the one-year license renewal is $38,660. The justification for the single-source acquisition is that SAS Institute is the sole manufacturer of SAS software, and AHCA's current license model can only be renewed through SAS Institute directly. AHCA has indicated that the SAS software is mission-critical to their operations, as it is used for essential data extraction, cleaning, analysis, and reporting activities to support federal/state survey and certification activities, as well as Medicaid program management.

This contract opportunity is limited to SAS Institute Inc. as the sole provider of the required SAS software licenses. There are no set-aside designations or restrictions on the types of organizations that can respond. SAS Institute Inc. is the incumbent vendor, as AHCA has previously purchased these licenses directly from the company. The estimated value of the one-year license renewal is $38,660.