Unicom License

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention intends to award a sole source firm fixed price purchase order to UNICOM SYSTEMS INC . The purpose of the project is to provide the UNICOM COTS software licenses which are required for Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) Integrated Data Collection System [PIDS] to keep the system deployed and operational. PIDS is deployed and maintained by CDC to allow 51 PRAMS grantees to perform their day-to-day operations and collect data for PRAMS surveillance. PRAMS Intergraded Data Collection System (PIDS) is designed, developed and deployed using UNICOM COTS software tool for questionnaire development and conducting mail, phone and in the future, web based survey interviews. In order to continue with PIDS to allow PRAMS grantees perform their data collection activities and operations, UNICOM licenses are required. PIDS is designed, developed and successfully deployed to all 51 PRAMS grantees using UNICOM Intelligence COTS software tool for survey operations since 2014. UNICOM meets PIDS requirements and offered out of the box and customized features to achieve the complex questionnaire layout and interview operations. Any changes to the underlying UNICOM core software tool will impact PIDS architecture and all 51grantees and PRAMS data collection effort will have to be stopped. It is critical for the PRAMS program to continue using UNICOM Intelligence software tool for PIDS architecture which has been successfully deployed and is in operation and maintenance phase. This contract action is for supplies or services for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b) (SAP) and 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1). Interested persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement or submit proposals. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations; however, all quotations/responses received within fifteen (15) days of the issuance of this notice will be considered by the government. 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. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Any quotation/response should be emailed to contract specialist at [email protected] by COB 5, September 15, 2021.