Notice of Intent to Noncompetitively Award Purchase Order for MicroShield Annual Software and Maintenance

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) requires continued use of MicroShield Annual Software and Maintenance. MicroShield is a comprehensive photon/gamma ray shielding and dose assessment program that is widely used for designing shields, estimating source strength from radiation measurements, minimizing exposure to people, and teaching shielding principles. MicroShield is used by NRC’s health physicists, waste managers, design engineers, and radiological engineers. MicroShield is fully interactive and utilizes extensive input error checking. The integrated tools provide results of graphing, material and source file creation, source inference with decay, projection of exposure rate versus time due to decay, access to nuclide data, and decay heat calculations. Grove Engineering owns the copyright to the MicroShield software licenses and does not currently authorize any other sources to sell maintenance renewals for their licenses and the only way to acquire MicroShield Annual Software and Maintenance is to noncompetitive award to: Grove Engineering Inc., 4925 Boonsboro Road, Ste. 257, Lynchburg, VA 24503. The authority for this acquisition is FAR 13.106-1, Soliciting from a single source, because the estimated value of this acquisition does not exceed the simplified acquisition threshold and there is only one source that has been identified that can provide MicroShield Annual Software and Maintenance. The anticipated period of performance for the purchase order is June 10, 2021 to June 9, 2022, plus four one-year options in accordance with FAR 52.217-9.