INTENT TO MODIFIY EXISTING ORDER BASED ON SOLE SOURCE FOR GPS DATA COLLECTION OF CONDORS

The US Fish and Wildlife Service, Contracting and General Services, Portland, Oregon intends to extend a sole source purchase order for a base year plus 2 option years to CLS America, Largo, MD. The Agency plans to award without competition under authority of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 6.302-1, Other Than Full and Open Competition Procedures and FAR Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures. The Hopper Mountain National Wildlife Refuge has existing GPS/satellite transmitters on endangered California condors which cannot be disrupted in data collection. The contractor has the capability to provide services in collecting data from several satellites in a manner required. Disruption of service would be a financial impact to the service through lack of use of the GPS transmitters already purchased and the frequency used. The necessary number of satellites provide reliable data. By utilizing the services of CLS America, the data has been critical to the recovery of the species and understanding locations where environmental factors are affecting the species' recovery and assistance in making future decisions that affect condor populations.