INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE - Open Geospatial Tender in USA - 119945059

Procurement Summary

Country: USA

Summary: INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE - Open Geospatial Consortium-Principal Membership for NOAA/NESDIS/HQ

Deadline: 09 Jun 2025

Posting Date: 29 May 2025

Other Information

Notice Type: Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 119945059

Document Ref. No.: NOAA-OGC25-0064

Competition: ICB

Financier: Self Financed

Purchaser Ownership: Public

Tender Value: Refer Document

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Tender Details

Description
The United States Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Environmental Satellite, Data, Information Service Headquarters (NESDIS-HQ), intends to solicit, negotiate and award on a sole source basis a contract with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) for the procurement of a Principal Membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium that will allow NOAA representatives the ability to participate in and vote in both the OGC Technical Committee (TC), helping culitvate the development of OGC standards, and the Planning Committee (PC).
This is a sole source procurement under the authority of FAR 13.501(a), utilizing simplified procedures for certain commercial items.The Government intends to award a contract to OGC due to only one source being able to meet the full capabilities and levels needed and required by the NESDIS-HQ program office. The OGC is the only group engaged in developing open standards for geospatial and location based services. It is for this reason that OGC is uniquely qualified to offer membership opportunities and provide the forum for working on technical requirements and standards based solution guidelines for geospatial data and services. Therefore, the OGC is the only vendor who can provide NOAA with these services.
Offerors that propose a solution using other than OGC must furnish detailed specifications and description to demonstrate their capability to provide NOAA representives the ability to participate in and vote in both the OGC Technical Committee (TC). To be considered, interested, parties must be able to demonstrate their ability to provide a comparable capability as outlined above. Capability information shall include, at minimum, name, telephone number, address of customers for which you have previously provided the capabilities and a detailed narrative that describes your company's ability. Interested parties must respond via email to the Contracting Specialist (...
Active Contract Opportunity

Notice ID : NOAA-OGC25-0064

Related Notice

Department/Ind. Agency : COMMERCE, DEPARTMENT OF

Sub-tier : NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION

Office: DEPT OF COMMERCE NOAA

General Information

Contract Opportunity Type: Special Notice (Original)

Original Published Date: May 28, 2025 10:40 am EDT

Original Response Date: Jun 09, 2025 01:00 pm EDT

Inactive Policy: 15 days after response date

Original Inactive Date: Jun 24, 2025

Initiative: None
Classification

Original Set Aside:

Product Service Code: R425 - SUPPORT- PROFESSIONAL: ENGINEERING/TECHNICAL

NAICS Code: 611430 - Professional and Management Development Training
Place of Performance: Silver Spring, MD 20910 USA

Documents

 Tender Notice

OGC-2025-SON.pdf