RED Epic 5K Digital Uncompressed, Archival Quality Camera System

Notice of Intent to Sole Source: RED Epic 5K Digital Uncompressed, Archival Quality Camera System The Social Security Administration (SSA) intends to negotiate with RED Digital Cinema on a sole source basis under the authority of 41 U.S.C. 3304(a)(1) and the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 6.302-1. These authorities provide an exception to the Competition in Contracting Act (CICA) when there is only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. SSA requires a RED Epic 5K Digital Uncompressed, Archival Quality Camera System to assist the SSA Historian's Office in satisfying the core responsibility of documenting and preserving archival quality oral history interviews and museum exhibits. Specifically, the SSA Historian's Office is conducting, archiving and disseminating oral history interviews of former Commissioners, senior leadership, special initiative committees and pioneers. The RED Epic 5K Digital Uncompressed, Archival Quality Camera System is essential to the success of this core responsibility in order to provide archival quality documents that are relevant and properly preserved for future SSA employees, researchers and the public. In addition to filming oral history interviews at 24fps, the SSA Historian's Office films artifacts, product shots and exhibits at a higher frame rate (over-cranking the camera to produce slow motion). This produces superior images that reveal greater detail and tighter focus. The RED Epic 5K Digital Uncompressed, Archival Quality Camera System is the only system that can shoot frame rates up to 120fps. Additionally, the RED system will produce digital media exhibits for SSA's History Museum and website. SSA has determined that RED Digital Cinema is the only responsible source who can provide a 5K Digital Uncompressed, Archival Quality Camera System with these capabilities. Written responses to this notice shall contain sufficient documentation to establish a bona fide capability to fulfill this requirement. Verbal responses are not acceptable and the agency will not provide consideration to any responses not in writing. This is a notice of intent, and the agency has not issued a solicitation. Therefore, the agency will not respond to requests for solicitation copies and will not pay for information received in response to this notice. A determination by the agency not to compete this requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the agency. All questions and submissions in response to this notice must be submitted in writing to [email protected] by Friday, May 9, 2014 at 1:00pm EST. Telephone calls regarding this matter will neither be accepted nor returned. Contracting Office Address: 1540 Robert M. Ball Building 6401 Security Boulevard Baltimore, MD 21235