Sensus Touch Read Water Meter Reading System

Yellowstone National Park is annoucing its intent to proceed with a sole source award for the following: JUSTIFICATION FOR OTHER THAN FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION for SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITIONS OVER $3,000 AND UP TO $100,000 (See FAR 13.106-1) Date: 6/14/2012 PR Number: Q1576120028 1. Nature and/or description of the item/service being procured and its intended use (include the anticipated cost): _Upgrade of Sensus Touchread water meter reading system. The main portion of this order is being purchases by the Yellowstone Park Foundation. We are ordering 1 Handheld upgrade AR 5002 to AR 5501 with AR 505 Master, Sensus command link, Sensus GPS, and 43 520M MXU wired upgrade from touch read to radio read. This upgrade will save time of the USO's who read the meters and time of the technician that processes the billing. This would be a big savings to the government. The old units are aging and are not under warranty any longer. 2. Sole Source Justification rationale (Check one and explain below): Only one responsible source. Explain: There are approximately 242 Sensus touch read water meters in the seven main developed area of the park. Yellowstone Park's Utility System Operators (USO) track water usage for the purpose of billing the contractors and concessionaires. Each year, staff in Yellowstone Park process about 273,673,608 gallons of water per year. NPS has invested time and many dollars to support this system, the cost to totally switch all 242 meters to another company would be far out of our reach. The Sensus Metering System has been provided to us under a license agreement containing restrictions on its use. Except as stated in the license agreement, the software may not be copied or distributed in any form or medium or disclosed to third parties. We are legally accountable for any violation of the License Agreement or of copyright law. Dana Kepner is the only authorized distributor for Sensus metering systems for this region. This is an exclusive agreement; no one else can sell NPS this product 3. Market Research. Please explain the results or why one was not performed. State whether any other offers were received or anyone expressed interest: Unable to locate a product similar enough to the Sensus system to conduct a market comparison. 4. If this is a determination for sole source, the Contracting Officer certifies: a. Only one source is available. b. The anticipated price will be determined fair and reasonable using the price analysis techniques described in FAR Part 13.106-3(a). Any vendors wishing to comment may email [email protected].