This notice announces the intent by the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA) to purchase brand name, new, Apple Software for the users at the Defense Center of Excellence (DCoE) facility in Silver Spring and Crystal City as prescribed in FAR 6.302-1. The action is to purchase 75 individual copies of Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro and Aperture Software for the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE). DCoE requires the purchase of Apple Inc. software to produce high-quality marketing and communications material for internal and external use in both print and on-line formats. Apple has set the quote mark gold standard quote mark for high-end graphic production. DCoE's in-house graphic designers are trained and experienced on the use and operation of this Apple graphics software only available on the Apple branded Operating System. With this software they will directly support enhancing workforce engagement by producing on-line content for DCoE's public facing websites, intranet and print collateral (posters, flyers, and other signage). This announcement fulfills the synopsis requirements under FAR 5.102(a)(6) and 5.203(a). USAMRAA intends to publish a solicitation no sooner than 15 days after publishing this synopsis. This Special Notice of Intent is not a request for competitive quotes. Information received in response to this notice will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether a competitive procurement is in the best interest of the Government. If no written responses are received by the date listed below, which reflects at least 15 days after the publication of this notice, the solicitation will be issued as brand name only. All questions and responses concerning this notice shall be emailed to Mr. Christopher Cook at
[email protected] Interested concerns must identify their capability in writing to the above e-mail address no later than 5:00 pm ET, March 06, 2015.