--NWRS Content Management System - Ongoing technical support

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), Contracting and General Services in Falls Church, VA intends to award a purchase order to Avantes Web Solutions of Kennebunk, ME for the purchase of ongoing programming, technical support, and product enhancement for the custom National Wildlife Refuge System solution when problems occur or changes are required. The vendor will keep the custom solution operating as designed; and provide guidance for future Ektron upgrades, enhanced functionality, maintenance patches, hotfixes and framework feature enhancements. The vendor will program code directly to the application through a secure connection, as well as provide telephone support to the Content Management System (CMS) Project Manager and/or server engineers responding to our questions as to how the CMS application and/or server functions for this particular software. The proposed contract action is for supplies or services for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b). Interested persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement or submit proposals. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. However, all proposals received within fifteen days after date of publication of this synopsis will be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete with this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement.