COTS UTILITIES INSPECTION SOFTWARE APPLICATION
This is a REQUEST FOR INFORMATION/SOURCES SOUGHT notice. This is not a request for proposals or quotes, and no solicitation is being issued at this time. This Notice is issued by Western Area Power Administration (Western) for the sole purpose of conducting Market Research in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 10. Responses will be used to determine the appropriate acquisition strategy for a possible future acquisition. No award will be made from this Notice. Western is not seeking proposals and will not accept unsolicited proposals.
Western is issuing this Notice in order to determine the commercial availability of a COTS utilities inspection software application that would be utilized for Western's transmission line inspection program, as described in the attached DRAFT SPECIFICATIONS. The goal is to learn what products are currently in use and commercially available at this time. The requirement, if solicited in future, would be to purchase licenses and support of said COTS software application. The requirement is not for design and development of a software application. "Commercial Item" and "COTS" are defined in FAR Part 2.
The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 511210 (Software Publishers) and the small business size standard is $35.5 million.
All interested and qualified sources must respond via electronic mail (E-mail) only. Qualified sources must provide the following information:
•Company Name & Address
•POC Name, Title, email address & phone number
•Company's web site
•Company's DUNS number
•Whether or not company is registered in the System for Award Management (SAM)
•Business size (small or large) and small business socioeconomic status (e.g., Service-Disabled Veteran owned, women-owned, HUBzone, 8(a), etc.)
•Name of COTS Product
•Is the product available on GSA Schedule contract? If yes, provide GSA contract number and applicable SIN.
Qualified sources must also provide responses to the list of questions attached to this Notice.
Please limit your response to 5 pages of information.
Be advised the Government will not pay for any information or administrative costs incurred in responding to this Notice. All costs associated with responding to this Notice shall be solely at the expense of the respondent. All submissions shall become Government property and will not be returned. No basis for a claim against the Government shall arise as a result of any response to this Notice.
Anne H. Anderson, Contracting Officer, Phone 6154520965, Email [email protected] - Amy K. Wright, Senior Contracting Officer, Phone 970-461-7523, Fax 970-461-7377, Email [email protected]
