A--Sole Source Notice for EPA's Ag Center Support

NAICS Code: 541990 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance?s Agriculture Center, located in EPA Region 7, intends to award a sole source fixed-price purchase order under the authority of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures to Avey Information Management (AIM) for compliance assistance support services for the agricultural community. The resulting Purchase Order will include a one year base year and two one-year option periods for a total of three potential years. NO SOLICITATION OR REQUEST FOR QUOTE (RFQ) IS AVAILABLE FOR THIS PROCUREMENT. It has been determined that AIM is uniquely qualified to satisfy the Government?s requirements, as they have been the sole provider of compliance assurance support services (including on-site requirements) for all past procurements with the Agriculture Center. Required services of the awarded contractor include managing the Ag Cen ter?s document distribution lists, developing or editing compliance assurance materials, compliance assistance packages and outreach documents; developing and revising communication strategies, etc. Previous competitions of similar requirements for this office have not found any other company able to complete all of the requirements of the Statement of Work. Notwithstanding, any firm that believes it is capable of meeting EPA?s requirement as stated herein may review the attached copy of the Statement of Work, provided at FedConnect, and submit a capability statement, which if received by the response date of this announcement must provide evidence that competition would be advantageous to the Government. A determination not to compete the proposed purchase order based upon the responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. All questions or comments regarding this procurement shall be addressed in writing to Cara Lynch, at [email protected] by COB on September 23, 2011.