GPS/SST Collars for bears

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Region Seven (7), Alaska, intends to award a sole source, firm-fixed price purchase to Telonics, Inc, 932 E. Impala Avenue, Mesa, Arizona 85204. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Region Seven (7), Alaska, requires two (2) refurbished TGW-3790 GPS/SST, six (6) TGW-3790 GPS/SST, and two (2) CR-2A collars for bears. Work description: Maintaining and adding to our inventory of GPS collars is critical to the success of a high-priority, multi-year research project on Kodiak brown bears. Telonics has manufactured all GPS collars used for the Kodiak Refuge's brown bear research. These products are proprietary and are only compatible with new replacement and refurbished Telonics components. The spread-spectrum receiver available to the Kodiak Refuge, which is needed to download data from GPS collars, is only compatible with Telonics GPS collars. Use of an alternative product would require additional costly equipment, and jeopardize the success of a project toward which the Service has already committed significant resources. Telonics is the only company able to refurbish our GPS collars. Additional GPS collars also need to be acquired from Telonics to maintain data integrity. In accordance with FAR 13.106-1(b) Solicit from one source. This notice is not a request for competitive proposals and the Government does not intend to accept proposals received.