SOLICITATION NOTICE
70 -- Notice of Intent to Sole Source
- Notice Date
- 6/12/2012
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 511210
— Software Publishers
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Navy, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, NMLC, 693 Neiman Street, FT Detrick, Maryland, 21702-9203, United States
- ZIP Code
- 21702-9203
- Solicitation Number
- N68901RCW0037
- Archive Date
- 7/13/2012
- Point of Contact
- Courtney A. Piar, Phone: 301-619-7467
- E-Mail Address
-
courtney.piar@med.navy.mil
(courtney.piar@med.navy.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Naval Medical Logistics Command intends to negotiate on a sole source basis (IAW FAR 6.302-1) with Fannix Software Pty Ltd, 258 Chapel Hill, Brisbane Australie QLD 4069, as the only responsible source that can provide renewal of maintenance on 23,000 Asutype software licenses that were purchased in 2008 from Fanix Software Pty Ltd. This acquisition is being conducted under FAR 12 Acquisition of Commercial Items. Provisions and clauses in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2005-24 are incorporated. The Naval Medical enterprise has a critical need to provide software maintenance on 23,000 software licenses purchased in 2008. The Asutype software currently provides needed advanced spell check and automatically correct s everything users type in any Windows application including Outlook Express, Internet Explorer, web-based email services, dialog boxes and web forms. This software corrects often made unwanted spelling mistakes or typing errors. The Asutype s aves users time, effort and frustration. It will learn and adapt itself to the users keyboarding habits, check their spelling and correct their typing, anywhere, anytime, with only one-keystroke correction. The Asutype software has a medical spelling dictionary of 62,484 entries and a fast text expander, Asutype saves at least 30% of typing and make sure everything the users type is accurate. This software provides instant spell check and speed typing, that works everywhere to increase typing accuracy and productivity. It learns and adapts itself to the users keyboarding habits, spell checks, and automatically corrects spelling mistakes as you type. It automates difficult and repetitive typing tasks, and applies several other original and innovative solutions to protect the user from making unwanted typos and saves lots of time, giving the user fast and accurate typing. Items being purchased in this acquisition: AsUType software maintenance (base year plus four option years) This acquisition is being conducted under Commercial Procedures. There are no set-aside restrictions for this requirement. The intended procurement will be classified under North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 511210 with Size Standard of $25 million. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals and no solicitation document exists for this requirement. However, parties interested in responding to this notice shall submit technical data, including cost, sufficient to determine capability in providing the same product. All capability statements received by closing of this notification of this synopsis will be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Based on the above information, the only technically acceptable system is provided by Hologic, Inc. Submit email capability statements (using PDF, MS Word, Excel attachments) to Courtney Piar at Courtney.piar@med.navy.mil. Fax quotes may be sent to 301-619-1132 Attn: Courtney Piar. Email statements are preferred. Statements are due not later than 1:00 P.M. EST on 28 June 2012. No phone calls accepted.
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