B--NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE - OCEANWEATHER, INC. - GREAT LAKES INFORMATION STUDY

Notice of Intent to Sole Source ERDC Contracting Office intends to award a sole source commercial items contract to OCEANWEATHER, INC. This procurement is being conducted using Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 12 supplemented as needed with FAR Part 13 for Simplified Acquisition Procedures (SAP) procedures. The US Army Corps of Engineers Research and Development Center (ERDC) needs to update an existing database for the wind/pressure field specification of the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, Pacific Ocean, Western Alaska Region (including mean monthly ice concentration fields) and Great Lakes Wave Information Study (WIS) taken between 1 January 2014 through 1 January 2015. The Government intends to obtain services from Oceanweather Inc to updating the already developed database to add one year of wind/pressure field estimates (calendar year 2014). Oceanweather, Inc has supplied the windfields and updates for the WIS during the past three decades. Due to the specific characteristics of the wind/pressure field Oceanweather, Inc is the only qualified source. Interested vendors or contractors may submit their capabilities and qualifications in writing to Renee James by email address [email protected] no later than 12:00 a.m. CST on March 31, 2015. Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. The determination whether or not to compete this procurement is the discretion of the Government. All communications in response to this notice must be in writing. Interested parties may submit any information for consideration to [email protected]. All communications must include the solicitation number in the subject line by the date stated above.