Behavioral modeling software (and support services).

This is a notice of intent to award a sole source contract pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 13.5 - Test Program for Certain Commercial Items and FAR Part 12 Acquisition of Commercial Items-General. The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) intends to award two firm-fixed price sole source contracts to Andrew Davidson & Company, Inc. and LPS, Inc. The contracts will be for behavioral modeling software packages (and support services). The contractors will provide flexible COTS behavioral modeling software packages that can be integrated into existing systems (QRM and Polypaths) that will allow FHFA to map and load the GSEs' mortgage and mortgage-related instrument data along with market and macroeconomic data to produce and validate default, prepayment and loss rates used in baseline and scenario market valuations and cash flow analyses. The latest version of the software must be fully integrated with the latest versions of QRM and Polypaths, respectively, and, through those frameworks, with the latest version of Intex. The contractors must be certified and fully integrated with QRM and Polypaths. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) for this requirement is 541511 Custom Computer Programming Services with a size standard of $27.5 million. The anticipated awards will include a one-year base and four one-year options. This is not a request for proposals. No contract will be awarded on the basis of offers received in response to this notice. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed effort on a full and open basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government. Interested persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement no later than 4:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time, October 16, 2015. Any response to this notice must show clear and convincing evidence that competition will be advantageous to the Government in future procurements. This is a written notice to inform the public of the Government's intent to award on a sole source basis for the required information.