Procurement Summary
Country: USA
Summary: Aerial Surveys Of Arctic Marine Mammals (Asamm) Software Maintenance
Deadline: 12 Mar 2019
Posting Date: 27 Feb 2019
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Notice Type: Tender
TOT Ref.No.: 31068076
Document Ref. No.: NFFS7300-19-01113RDS
Competition: ICB
Financier: Self Financed
Purchaser Ownership: -
Tender Value: Refer Document
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Nffs7300-19-01113rds
***noaa's acquisition & grants office, western acquisition division-boulder, intends to negotiate, on a sole source basis, under authority of far 13.106-1(b)(1), with xera gis of bishop, california for assisting the national marine fisheries service by providing software support to the aerial surveys of arctic marine mammals (asamm) project. This software support includes maintaining and debugging proprietary asamm software (comprising asamm survey and asamm post-flight utilities programs) used for data collection, data storage, data processing, real-time mapping, and daily post-flight report production.
***the sole source determination is based on the national oceanic & atmospheric administration's (noaa) northwest regional national marine fisheries service (nmfs) requirement for software support to the aerial surveys of arctic marine mammals (asamm) project. This software support includes maintaining and debugging proprietary asamm software (comprising asamm survey and asamm post-flight utilities programs) used for data collection, data storage, data processing, real-time mapping, and daily post-flight report production. Xera gis is the only entity that can possibly do this work, because asamm survey and asamm post-flight utilities are proprietary software programs that were developed and are currently being maintained and upgraded by xeragis. They were developed specifically to meet the needs of the asamm project. Xeragis has not given any other entity permission to provide maintenance to this software, and even if another entity was now given permission, it would take considerable time and effort for the new entity to reach a level of knowledge about the asamm's project needs and proficiency with the asamm software programs that are necessary to meet the government requirement for this procurement. The base year period of performance is from april 1, 2019 through march 31, 2020. There are three option years with the same days as pe...
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