Notice of Intent to Sole Source - Geneious Subscription

USDA APHIS intends to issue a sole source award to GRAPHPAD SOFTWARE, LLC for Geneious Floating Licenses. This is NOT a request for quotes or proposals. Questions or comments to this Notice of Intent should be directed to Contracting Officer, Kim Yen Tu, at [email protected] via e-mail only (no phone calls/voice mail messages regarding questions will not be accepted and will not receive a response). __________________________________________________________________________ United States Department of Agriculture Limited Source/Brand Name Justification FAR 13.106-1(b)(1) – Simplified Acquisitions 1. Identification of the agency and the contracting activity. Requesting Agency: USDA APHIS PPQ, Science and Technology Bldg 580, BARC-East, 9901 Powder Mill Rd, Laurel MD 20708 Contracting Agency: USDA APHIS Contracting 250 Marquette Avenue, Suite 410 | Minneapolis, MN 554012 2. Description of supply or service required to meet the agency’s needs. Geneious software is a commercial package of sequence analysis tools that enable scientists to more efficiently analyze and store data belonging to both their projects and diagnostics. Scientists at the Plant Pathogen Confirmatory Diagnostics Laboratory (PPCDL) have utilized Geneious for years in their diagnostic and project analysis, creating analysis pipelines and multi-year sequence databases accessible only in Geneious. Geneious Prime is the only approved software package that provides a comprehensive, yet highly intuitive and user-friendly, graphical user interface that allows scientists untrained in bioinformatics to easily execute complex data analysis and manage existing databases built in Geneious. The Geneious Prime software is critical for mission related duties of the scientists in the PPCDL. •Geneious Prime Floating Yearly Subscription 3.The rationale or circumstances for limiting competition. Scientists at the Plant Pathogen Confirmatory Diagnostics Laboratory (PPCDL) have utilized Geneious for years in their diagnostic and project analysis, creating analysis pipelines and multi-year sequence databases accessible only in Geneious. Only one source exists for this product. 4.A description of the market research conducted and the results or a statement of the reasonmarket research was not conducted. Approved IT security software was screened for alternative software packages. No other comprehensive software package is available that allows scientists to integrate existing pipelines and databases with an easy-to-use graphic user interface.