DESCRIPTION: NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT to PITNEY BOWES, INC. to provide postage into existing Pitney Bowes meter located at Marine Corps Base Hawaii Kaneohe, Hawaii Post Office. This NOTICE OF INTENT is not a request for Expressions of Interest (EOI), proposals or quotations. No solicitation document exists and no telephone inquiries will be accepted. No contract award will be made on the basis of EOIs, proposals, or quotations received in response to this notice. Interested persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement, and should furnish detailed data concerning their capabilities to provide services sought including pricing data and technical data sufficient enough to determine that a comparable source to the government is available. The Government will be the sole determiner regarding an offeror’s ability to meet all requirements. The Government will consider all EOIs received prior to five (5) days after the date of publication of this synopsis before 1200 HST on that date. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the disc! retion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. EOIs sent via the US Postal Service should be mailed to Commanding General, LSCR R, Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Box 63063 (Attn: Ms. Valerie Kop Choy), Kaneohe Bay, HI 96863-3063. EOIs may be submitted via Federal Express or hand carried must be delivered to Regional Contracting Office, Marine Corps Base Hawaii, 2nd Street Bldg 209, Kaneohe Bay, HI 96863 Monday through Friday, excluding Federal Holidays, between the hours of 0700 and 1530. EOIs may be sent via facsimile to: Attn: Ms. Valerie Kop Choy @ 808-257-2350. The facsimile transmission must clearly identify this notice and the name of the contracting officer on the cover page. Submitters bear the burden of ensuring that the EOI reaches the designated contracting officer on time, and should allow a reasonable time for facsimile transmission to be completed. All page! s of the facsimile transmission must reach the contracting office befo re the deadline specified and pages of the facsimile transmission that arrive in the office after the specified deadline will not be considered. The submitter bears the risk of non-receipt of facsimile transmission and should confirm by telephone that any facsimile was received. This purchase will be under Simplified Acquisition Procedures Far Part 13 and Other Than Full and Open Competition as authorized under FAR 6.302-1. The anticipated award date is 22 January 2007. Point of Contact for this procurement is Ms. Valerie Kop Choy, 808-257-0093,
[email protected].