The following is an INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE ANNOUNCEMENT. It constitutes the only written announcement. Under the authority of FAR Part 6.302-1, the Government intends to negotiate on a sole source basis and award a contract using FAR Part 15 Negotiated Procurement Procedures to one source without full and open competition. As justified below, there are no other vendors who can provide the required expertise or have the knowledge base regarding this customized software program to satisfy agency requirements within the required time frame for completion of the work. This requirement is not a recurring one, but is only for completion of an existing project. The contract period of performance shall be for four months. The contract will also include one 2-month option period that may be exercised if efforts are not completed during the base period. If additional work is necessary in support of this program beyond December 31, 2004, then it shall be conducted as a new requirement under the ITS-ESE EPA Contract. Transitional efforts will occur during the two-month option period.. SAIC has been the sole contractor performing maintenance of ICMS under Contract No. 68-W1-0055, Delivery Order 72, and under Contract No. 68-W-99-002, Task Order 23. The current SAIC assigned personnel have a thorough and in-depth understanding, as well as a historical knowledge, of ICMS and its support systems: Clause Administration, User Maintenance, Utility Update, EPAYS conversion, Reference Tables, and Vendor Maintenance. ICMS is a complex relational database application that is comprised of over 100 tables, multiple views that allow users to enter data to populate those tables, a document management system that allows for retrieval of all electronic documents compiled or associated with an ICMS action, and a word processor to create and print the hard-copy documents for Contracting Officer signature and distribution. SAIC employees have been involved in the preliminary planning and development for future mandated upgrades that are quickly forthcoming as a result of the President's Management Agenda, Integrated Acquisition Environment goals mandated by OMB, and other Agency initiatives. SAIC employees have unique capabilities associated with understanding the different characteristics and nuances of ICMS. Historically, newly-assigned but experienced SAIC developers have taken several months to learn the functionality, programming, and structure of ICMS. The expense of training and bringing a new contractor up to speed would be cost prohibitive due to imminent system replacement. Furthermore, the introduction of a new contractor would severely impact this progress due to the possibility of the new contractor either not understanding the prior progress and planning, thus, negating any prior progress made and potentially backtracking before any new progress is made. THE GOVERNMENT KNOWS OF ONLY ONE SOURCE, SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, 1213 JEFFERSON DAVIS HWY, ARLINGTON VA 22202, CAPABLE OF FULFILLING THE REQUIREMENT. The NAICS Code is 541519 with a Small Business Size Standard $21 M. Direct all questions or inquiries or references by telephone (202) 564-0366 or E-mail ([email protected]) by June 29th, 2004.

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