SOLICITATION NOTICE
70 -- 70--Software Application for Oil and Gas Data
- Notice Date
- 1/12/2004
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- BLM NATIONAL BUSINESS CENTER BC662, BLDG 50, DFC, PO BOX 25047 DENVER CO 80225
- ZIP Code
- 80225
- Solicitation Number
- NBR040012
- Response Due
- 2/13/2004
- Archive Date
- 1/11/2005
- Point of Contact
- John Sherman Contracting Officer 3032360225 John_Sherman@blm.gov;
- E-Mail Address
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- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) intends to award on a sole source basis a purchase order using commercial acquisition procedures to Tobin International, Inc. P.O. Box 708903 San Antonio, TX 78270-8902. The proposed procurement under NBR040012, is for a perpetual site license for oil and gas data and one year of software maintenance. Rationale for the sole source procurement include: 1.The BLM has a nationwide contract with IHS Energy Group (IHS) to provide each BLM office with historical oil and gas well data on CD's. The CD's are received on a monthly basis. This data set includes fields for the longitude and latitude of the surface and bottom hole of each well. These fields are essential for subsequent GIS mapping of the well sites. For most areas in the country, these fields are populated with location data. However, for some areas, including the gulf coastal states, IHS does not provide sufficient data in these fields. However, Tobin does possess this information in their data collection. Because of this, IHS has an exclusive agreement with Tobin, whereby the location Tobin data, which is already is embedded on the IHS CD, is activated through a user profile for those users that pay a license fee to Tobin for access to their data. The Tobin data is available to any licensed user of the IHS product lines. Tobin warrants that its data will work correctly with the IHS products. Hence, as no other vendor has an agreement with IHS to provide the location data on the IHS CD's and it is essential that the data be included on the IHS CD's that we are now receiving per the nationwide contract, there is no other source for the product we are requesting. 2. Tobin SuperBase well and land grid data sets are calculated by Tobin International Inc. from aerial photography and extensive historical archive research. Data provided from any another vendor would have to be based on the same collection standards and must include the same geographic areas. 3. The SuperBase land grid data is precisely matched to the SuperBase well data. It is imperative that the two data sets have the same level of accuracy. These data sets are used in tandem for geographic analysis. Mixing the well data with grids from another vendor could result in unacceptable errors in calculations of relative distance, direction and/or area. Interested persons may identify their interest and capability to meet the requirement. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. If no written response is received by February 13, 2004, to the effect that comparable items/services are available, and that it is more advantageous to the Government than obtaining these items/services through a sole-source procurement with Tobin International Inc., a sole-source award will be made. NOTE 22.
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- Record
- SN00502348-W 20040114/040112212111 (fbodaily.com)
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