Statistical Acreage Estimates - Software

The intent of this Pre-solicitation Notice is for informational purposes only. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Contracting Operations Branch (COB) intends to award a sole source purchase order to Hexagon US Federal, Inc. for Imagine Professional software to be used in the Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) environment to derive the NASS operational remote sensing Cropland Data Layer (CDL) to produce acreage estimates in support of agency statistical programs. The required functionality includes processing of satellite imagery and ground reference datasets to perform supervised image classifications for purposes of deriving acreage estimates. Additionally, research and production activities are ongoing for crop
emergence, assess agriculture disasters, and research land cover classifiers, image ingress, and processing of medium resolution satellite imagery such as Sentinel-2, Landsat 7, 8, and 9, and Resourcesat-2.

The proposed contract will be awarded using Limited Source Justification (LSJ) procedures citing the authority at at FAR 8.405-6(a)(1)(i)(B) "Only one source is capable of providing the supplies orservices required at the level of quality required because the supplies or services areunique or highly specialized."  The LSJ is attached for reference.

The synopsis does NOT constitute an Invitation for Bids (IFB), a Request for Proposals (RFP) or Request for Quotes (RFQ) nor does it restrict the Government as to its ultimate acquisition approach.  The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this notice nor will it reimburse firms for any costs associated with preparing or submitting a response to this notice.  However, all responsible sources, meeting the requirements, which if received within 10 calendar days of publication of this notice shall be considered by the Government.  All responses shall be submitted to the Government primary point of contact at the contracting office address shown below. If no written responses are received after the publication of this notice the contract will be awarded without further notice.  A determination by the Government not to open the requirement to competition based upon the responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.