Awarding a Purchase Order for the repair of the following equipment: CL31 TRANSMITTER BOARD, VAISALA PN: CLT321SP, ASN: S100-2MT1-3A2 to Vaisala

Special Notice: The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Weather Service (NWS), National Reconditioning Center (NRC) is awarding a Purchase Order for the repair of the following equipment: 27 each CL31 TRANSMITTER BOARD, VAISALA PN: CLT321SP, ASN: S100-2MT1-3A2 to Vaisala, Inc. Sole Source Justification: The Government only knows of one source for repairs, the original equipment manufacturer, Vaisala, Inc. A Sources Sought was posted to FBO on August 28, 2015 for 10 days and no responses were received. Market research: Multiple searches of the Small Business Administration's (SBA) Dynamic Small Search failed to identify any small business available to compete for this repair service. Search parameters included: NAICS codes 334511 and 334519 with key words ‘repair, vaisala, CL31 ceilometer, transmitter board'; and just key words: ‘repair, vaisala, CL31 ceilometer, transmitter board', ‘repair, CL31 ceilometer, transmitter board', and ‘repair, ceilometer'. Multiple searches of the GSA'a eLibrary also retuned zero matches. Searches included ‘repair Vaisala CL31 Ceilometer Transmitter Board', ‘repair CL31 Ceilometer Transmitter Board', ‘repair Ceilometer Transmitter Board', and ‘repair Ceilometer'.