Intent to make award on sole source basis.

DESCRIPTION: The US Fish & Wildlife Service intends to negotiate, on a sole source basis, under authority of FAR 6.302-1(a), with Splunk Software, for Splunk Enterprise Support (1 year), Splunk Enterpise Perpetual, Splunk Professional Services premium App Configuration at US FWS, Denver, Colorado. *****The Sole Source determination is based on Splunk being the only company that is capable to provide compatible enterprise software used to monitor report and analyze the machine data produced by all the applications, systems and infrastructure that run a business. *****The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 511210, and the size standard is $25 Million. *****NO solicitation package will be issued. This notice is not a request for competitive proposals; however, interested persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to this requirement. Inquires will only be accepted via email to [email protected]. The government will consider responses received by 3:00 p.m., EST, 06/20/2011. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed acquisition base on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement in the future. In the absence of responses FWS proposes to negotiate with Splunk Software on a sole source basis. No telephone requests will be honored.