PerkinElmer-Tibco Spotfire Software Support

This contract action is for the acquisition of service for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 13.106-1(b)(1). The National Institute of Environmental Health Science (NIEHS), Office of Acquisitions (OA) intends to award a single source purchase order to PerkinElmer Informatics, Inc., 940 Winter Street, Waltham, MA 02451, for the acquisition of Tibco Spotfire Software Support. The Tibco software licenses and updates will allow users to combine data from various sources such as gene sequences and micro array analysis in a single analysis toolset to create holistic view of the same interactive visualization. The NIEHS NTP has used the Tibco Spotfire software for data analytics for several years. During this time the NTP and its associated laboratories have developed many laboratory workflows and analysis pathways based on the Tibco Spotfire toolset. Changing toolsets would be disruptive to current workflows, personnel trained to used Tibco, as well as make some existing datasets unusable, all of which would be very costly to the Government. The continuous use of Tibco Spotfire would allow the NIEHS computers in the data center to continue to run, allowing the analytics tools to link to the NIEHS data without security consequences. The anticipated period of performance will be for a twelve (12) month base period, plus four (4) additional 12 months option periods. ( see attachment)