The Washington Headquarters Services (WHS) on behalf of the Accession Policy Directorate, Personnel and Readiness, Department of Defense intends to award a Sole Source contract to Clemson University, 222 Sirrine Hall, Clemson, SC.The purposed contract action is for services for which the Government intends to solicit with only one source in accordance with FAR 6.302-1. This procurement will examine the effects of factors such as military pay, bonuses, and other personnel policies on enlistment and reenlistment decisions using the longitudinal data set. The contractor will use new functional forms of a multiple regression pooled time-series cross-section model and clean, reformat, and update data from the Services for all variables for inclusion in the longitudinal data set. No solicitation will be issued. This notice is not a request for competitive quotations. Performance of period is date of award plus 12 months. Award is anticipated on or about 14 August 2006. Interested firms may email capability statements to the attention of Nadine Payne at:
[email protected]. Capability statements must be received within 10 days from publication of this notice. A determination by the Government not to compete this requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. This announcement is for informational purposes only. See Note 22