NOTICE TO AWARD TO A MANDATORY SOURCE UNDER THE DOD ESIS MANDATORY SOLUTION FOR SOFTWARE AGREEMENTS

NAVSUP Fleet Logistics San Diego (FLCSD) intends to award to Solar Winds under the DLT Solutions BPA contract on DOD ESI Contract Number N00104-13-A-ZF42. FLCSD will use Simplified Acquisition Procedures and Other Than Full and Open Competition. The authority for soliciting a single source under simplified acquisition procedures is FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i), Soliciting Competition, which states that contracting officers may solicit from one source if the contracting officer determines that the circumstances of the contract action deem only one source reasonably available (e.g., urgency, exclusive licensing agreements, brand-name or industrial mobilization). The proposed contract action is Sole Source only. This Notice of Intent is not a request for quotation. No solicitation or RFQ will be forthcoming. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract is entirely at the discretion of the Government. NOTE 22: The proposed contract action is for supplies or services for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 6.302-1 THIS NOTICE OF INTENT IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS.