NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT EXTENSION FOR ITEMS - URHD

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) intends to award a sole source contract extension to Concurrent Technologies Corporation, 100 CTC Drive, Johnstown, PA 15904 for 6 months. The extension will allow for the continuation and completion of the Unclassified Remote Hosted Desktop (URHD) pilot, which explores the use of a commercial Cloud as an alternative to in-house solutions. Specifically, the current contractor is required to provide URHD services to the NGA clients via the SaaS and Computing-To-Go Service and Public Cloud Deployment Models. The Service Provider shall provision the URHD within their enterprise infrastructure, and operate and maintain the capabilities in order to reliably deliver these services to the NGA clients. The services shall be assessable to NGA clients within NGA work centers and remotely via desktop, laptop and mobile computing devices. the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one sole source under the authority of FAR 6.302-1 and Title 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1), Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy Agency Requirements. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposal. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government. Any responsible source may submit a capabilities statement in writing to the identified point of contact no later than 3:00 PM EDT on 10 June 2013. The North American Industry Classification System code is 518210, Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services.