Talking Book Software Fees-AMR-WB+ - Intent to Sole Source

This is a public notice prepared in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 5.2 – Synopsis of Proposed Contract Actions.

The Library of Congress, Contracts and Grants Directorate, intends to award a sole-source firm-fixed price contract to: VoiceAge Corporation. The work to be performed under the contract will be performed at the following location: Contractor’s Facility.

The period of performance of the intended contract shall run as follows: 12-months. It is valued at an amount below the simplified acquisition threshold (defined as $250,000 and below), but above $25,000 (the public notice threshold). The work shall consist of the following: procurement of the Library’s VoiceAge Extended Adaptive Muti-Rate Wideband (AMR-WB+) software licenses. This announcement constitutes the only public notice, proposals are not being requested from other parties and a written solicitation will not be issued.

This public notice accomplishes the following:

1. Notice of the Library’s intent to sole source this requirement to the business listed herein;
2. Synopsizing the requirements in accordance with the FAR; and
3. Publicly posting the approved Justification and Approval (J&A) to the public in advance of the contract award rather than after award. As a result of this, a second posting of the J&A is not required after the award is made.

As a result of this public posting, this shall be the only notice issued. A separate award notice and a separate J&A posting shall not be performed, as all public information is being accomplished via this public notice.

The following attachments are included in this notice:

Attachment 1: Solicitation

Attachment 2: Sole Source Justification (Redacted for Public Release)

Not further notices shall be pursued at this time in regard to this contracting action.