Persuant to the authority of FAR 13.106-1 (b)(1)(i), the Contracting Officers may solicit from one source if the Contracting Officer determines that the cirmcumstances of the contract action deem only one source is reasonably available. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) intends to sole source to: Sprint Communications 12524 Sunrise Valley Dr. Flr 2 Reston, VA 20191 The purpose of this requirement is to acquire services for Relay Caption Service for 508 Compliance (TTY, Captioned Telephone Service, Speech to Speech, IP Relay Service, Video Relay Service, and Relay Conference Captioning). Federal Relay was established by Congress under Public Law 100-542, the Telecommunications Accessibility Act of 1988 , provides an intermediary telecommunications service for individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing, and/or have speech disabilities, including federal employees, for communications with and within the Federal Government. Sprint is currently the GSA contract holder and requests that each agency submit a task order for Federal Relay Service. The period of performance is 11 months. The notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. A determination by the Goverment as to whether or not to compete this proposed contract action based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Goverment. Interested parties regarding this sole source action may contact the contract specialist, David Goodno,
[email protected] no later than the time and date specified in this posting.