SPECIAL NOTICE
59 -- GSM solar powered telemetry units
- Notice Date
- 12/15/2015
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 334220
— Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Administrative Services Division/Contracting, 100 North 6TH Street, Butler Square 5TH Floor, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55403
- ZIP Code
- 55403
- Solicitation Number
- 774844
- Archive Date
- 1/2/2016
- Point of Contact
- Margaux G. Nenichka, Phone: 301-851-2716
- E-Mail Address
-
margaux.g.nenichka@aphis.usda.gov
(margaux.g.nenichka@aphis.usda.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Sole Source- Special Notice The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) intends to award a purchase order on a sole source basis, under the authority of FAR Part 6.302-1, with Cellular Tracking Technologies, LLC., Somerset, PA for solar powered GSM telemetry units with solar powered GPS-capable unit with greater than 3 year of battery life, with GPS-accuracy of location and the ability to capture and store location information multiple times per day, allows data transfer via the GSM system, allows for remote changes of the duty cycles, designed to be attached to a neck collar, and has an internal antenna to minimize negative impact on the goose and reduces transmitter failures. These units will be procured as a commercial item in accordance with the procedures in FAR Part 12 (Acquisition of Commercial Items) and FAR Part 13 (Simplified Acquisition Procedures). The sole source determination is based on Cellular Tracking Technologies, LLC. is currently the only manufacturer that makes a solar powered GPS-capable unit and the reasons cited above. The anticipated total value of the purchase order is $36,000.00. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. A determination by the Government not to compete with this proposed contract based upon 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. All interested parties may contact the Contract Specialist listed below. Responses must be submitted electronically, via email, to Margaux.G.Nenichka@aphis.usda.gov. The deadline for the submittal of responses is 12:00pm eastern time, December 18, 2015.
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- Record
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