USACE, Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Contracting Office intends to issue a sole source award to Springer Science + Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013-1522, on a sole source basis. Springer Science + Business Media, LLC is the sole publisher and licensor of the required titles and the only company capable of fulfilling this requirement. Access to the eBooks must be available electronically to multiple physical sites. The following Springer eBooks collection titles are required: 2013 Earth and Environmental Science 2013 Energy 2014 Computer Science 2014 Energy 2014 Mathematics and Statistics The Government intends to procure from only one source under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i). The NAICS code for this requirement is 519130 with a size standard of 500 employees. Interested parties may submit their capabilities and qualifications or quotes to provide this requirement in writing to the identified point of contact not later than 5 days from the date of this notice. The information submitted must be provided in sufficient detail to demonstrate the vendor's ability to fulfill this requirement. The contractor must also provide a description of their past experience in fulfilling requirements which are the same or similar to this requirement and references for each. Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed acquisition on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government. No RFQ/RFP will be issued based upon this Notice of Intent. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. Responses to this requirement may be submitted to Adrienne Bingham at
[email protected]. The solicitation number shall be included in the subject line of the e-mail submission.