Notice of Intent: The USDA, ARS, SEA intends to award a sole source procurement to KISTERS North America, Inc., 7777 Greenback Lane, Suite 209, Citrus Heights, CA 95610-5800, as they are the sole source for this data management software pursuant to the authority of 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(l ) and FAR 6.302-1, Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy agency Requirements. The award will be for a KISTERS WISKI Software Solution that performs data quality control and management for both hydrological and ecological time series and discrete data types. Our research requires a data management system that will allow for quality control and analysis of long-term hydrologic records, as well as discrete water quality and ecology data, meteorological data, soil data, and geospatial data. Our scientists currently use ESRI products, such as ArcMap and ESRI Online, thus the software must be compatible with ESRI products for geospatial data management; this includes raster storage, management, and calculations through the software interface. KISTERS is the only source for this type of software that provides ESRI integration, as well as the necessary data storage, management tools, and functionality that are compatible with the research needs. Our research requires that the software must provide water quality and ecology functions that are completely integrated into the time series database and that both time series and discrete data must be stored on-site on an internally managed server. For lab-wide access to the data, we require that the databases are accessible from both an internal server for 18 individual registered users and an internal web interface for all lab scientists and support staff. KISTERS provides the necessary data access on a laboratory-based internal server, which is required. We require that the software is compatible with the following data formats: WML, WML2, JSON, DataJSON, ESRI-JSON, ASCII, CSV, XLSX, KML, ESRI Layer Pack, ZIP, JPG, PNG, RASTER, and HTML. Our scientists require the addition of new parameters, units, stations, metadata attributes, and data types to be completed directly through the application without any modifications to the database structure. KISTERS is the sole source of this type of data management system that can satisfy all of the above criteria and that satisfy the requirements of our researchers. The Government intends to award a firm fixed price Purchase Order on August 29, 2017, using Simplified Acquisition Procedures. This Notice of Intent is not considered a Request for Quotation (RFQ) nor is it a Request for Proposals (RFP). No solicitation document is available and telephone requests will not be honored. Interested persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to this requirement. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. The Government will consider all responses received by 11:00 AM central time, August 28, 2017. Information received will be considered solely for determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Inquiries should be sent to
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