NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD ON A SOLE SOURCE BASIS - ANNUAL MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT OF GENOMICS AND COMPUTER VISION STORAGE AND COMPUTATIONAL SERVERS SYSTEM

THIS NOTICE OF INTENT IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS/QUOTATIONS.  This notice is for informational purposes only and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government.  This procurement will be processed pursuant to FAR Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Products and Commercial Services and FAR Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures.  No solicitation will be issued.

Potential sources who believe they can provide the services listed are invited to submit substantiating documentation in writing to the identified point of contact.  The information received will be considered solely for the purposes of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement.  Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice.  A determination by the Government to compete this proposed contract based on responses to this notice is solely at the discretion of the Government.  Responses are to be received within five (5) calendar days of this notice.  No telephone calls are being accepted.  The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS) intends to award on a single source basis.  Purchase order type will be a Firm Fixed Price awarded to Cornell University Biotechnology Resource Center Cornell Research & Innovation.  This is for annual maintenance of three data storage servers and three computational servers for Storage and Computing of Grapevine Sequencing Data and Imaging Data maintained in a secure Bioinformatics Facility.

The award is in accordance with FAR 13.106-1(b)(1))(i).