The Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate, Rome NY intends to solicit and negotiate a sole source purchase order under the authority of FAR 6.302-1 with Lego Education, P.O. Box 1707 Pittsburg, KS 66762-1707 to provide Lego Education robotics kits for the Information Directorate's Engineering Outreach program. The requirements are as follows:
NXT Robotics Engineering I- Getting Started Package, Quantity: 2, P/N: W991286
LEGO MINDSTORMS Education NXT Base Set- 12 pack, Quantity: 3, P/N: W991408
LEGO MINDSTORMS Education NXT Base Set, Quantity: 6, P/N: W979797
NXT Robotics Engineering I Curriculum, Quantity: 8, P/N: W991282
Robotics Projects Mat, Quantity: 4, P/N: W991247
Race Against Time Mat, Qauntity: 4, P/N: W990974

Lego Education is the OEM of the LEGO MINDSTORMS and they are the only ones who sell the LEGO MINDSTORMS Education NXT Software 1.1 and Site License and the NXT Robotics Engineering I Curriculum site license. Non-OEM vendors cannot sell the site license and cannot maintain the OEM equipment. Though this notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations, information received within three (3) days after the publication of the solicitation will be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed purchase order based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. The NAICS code is 339932.