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[email protected]. Comsoft Corporation is currently providing monthly local (750), statewide (50) and virtual (50) pager services for VAMC Murfreesboro, VAMC Nashville under TVHS and their outlying CBOCs located in Clarksville and Chattanooga, Tennessee. The contractor provides devices which support statewide paging to include the entire state of Tennessee. Comsoft Corporation also provides web-based access to send an alphanumeric page, and a secure means to add, change, and delete pager groups; and their system allows forwarding of pages to any 10-digit number, supports secure administrator access to change user-set forwarding rules on a pager, or to add and/or change pagers to a single virtual pager. The paging services provided by Comsoft Corporation are existing services for these locations. Substantial duplication of cost to the Government is not expected to be recovered through competition and Unacceptable delays in fulfilling the agency's requirements would occur. Under the authority FAR Part 8.405-6(b)(1), it allows for the procurement of items through other than full and open competition; applicable when "only one source is capable of responding due to the unique or specialized nature of the work." Comsoft Corporation is the only known local source available to satisfy this current need.