The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/National Marine Fisheries Service, is issuing notice of intent to solicit and negotiate a sole source procurement with Southeast Regional Office, 263 13th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701 for the following requirement: Laserfiche Annual Software Maintenance Support and Laserfiche Software Upgrade to RIO for the period of October 1, 2011 through September 30, 2012. All work is to be in accordance with the Statement of Work included in the solicitation. Laserfiche software is located at: NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Regional Office, 263 13th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701. The NMFS Southeast Regional Office (SERO) currently uses Laserfiche electronic document management system (EDMS) software to enter, store, and manage our official federal records as well as other non-record documents. This acquisition is for continued software maintenance, upgrade and support for this EDMS system. This software maintenance includes all software upgrades and patches as well as telephone support for the software. Telephone support is to resolve problems, assist with software patch installations, and general software assistance. Local on sight support will be utilized under this request to upgrade our current Laserfiche limited platform to a Laserfiche unlimited platform under "Laserfiche RIO". Laserfiche RIO supports an unlimited number of application servers, as well as repositories, making it well suited for expansion. As EDMS is the central repository for the management of official records which include FOIA requests, Administrative Records need for litigation actions, and other purposes. The system must be kept operational and must be maintained to support these requirements. Since the software is Laserfiche, only support for Laserfiche is possible for this requisition. It is not economically justified to spend the Government's money to completely replace the existing system with different software instead of simply continuing support for the existing software. The Government intends to award a firm-fixed price purchase order for this requirement. The proposed contract action is for supplies and services for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 6.302-3(a)(ii). The applicable NAICS code is 423430. The small business size standard is 100 employees. All applicable awards shall be in compliance with CAR Clause 1352.239-72 "Security Processing Requirements for Contractors/Subcontractor personnel for accessing DOC information Technology Systems" (APR 2010) will apply. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals, however, all proposals received by August 30, 2011, 10:00 AM EST shall be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely with the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement in the future. Evidence must be provided of ability to perform the requirement. Responses to this notice, if any, must show clear and convincing evidence that competition would be advantageous to the Government. In order to comply with the debt collection improvement act of 1966, all contractors must be registered in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) to be considered for an award of a federal contract. For information regarding registration in CCR, visit the CCR website at www.ccr.gov/index.cfm. Inquiries will only be accepted via email to
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