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This posting serves several purposes for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA)’s International Geospatial Warehouse (IGW) system follow-on (IGW3) requirements. This posting 1) re-confirm... This posting serves several purposes for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA)’s International Geospatial Warehouse (IGW) system follow-on (IGW3) requirements. This posting 1) re-confirms and adds details to the original synopsis/intent to sole source posted in October 2019 IAW FAR 5.201, 2) serves as a pre-solicitation notice posted for 15 calendar days before the issuance of the solicitation IAW FAR 5.203(a) and FAR 5.204, 3) constitutes the second notice to industry of NGA's intent to sole source a firm-fixed price contract to Compusult Limited (40 Bannister Street, Mount Pearl, Newfoundland, Canada) for the continuation of services to support the IGW3 requirement, and 4) posts the associated Justification and Approval (J&A) authorizing the sole source action for 30 calendar days IAW FAR 6.305 (see attachments). Furthermore, this posting 5) gives industry a second chance to respond to the Government’s acquisition plan to sole source the IGW3 requirement as described herein. The IGW system is a flexible, well-defined access point for the coproduction of attributed, tactical level, geospatial feature data and is a secure web site that hosts Unclassified//Limited Distribution (U//LIMDIS) and Unclassified//For Official Use Only (U//FOUO) High-Resolution Vector Data (HRVD) from 30+ partners, hosted on the AWS cloud. The IGW3 requirement provides continued, highly specialized operations and sustainment (O&S) services for the system. NGA already posted a sources sought/request for information (RFI) notice on Federal Business Opportunities (www.beta.sam.gov) (reference: HM0476IGW3) on 28 June 2019 requesting white papers (capability statements) for this support (IAW FAR 5.207(c)(16)(ii) and PGI 206.302-1(d)) to be submitted by 31 July 2019 (over 30 days) and received responses from a number of interested parties. The Government finalized its review and analysis of all responses received. The results of the review have led NGA, a DoD agency, to the intent to solicit and negotiate with only one source (Compusult Limited) under the authority of 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1) and FAR 6.302-1, Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services will Satisfy Agency Requirements. The responses to the sources sought/RFI for this follow-on contract for highly specialized services confirmed that award to any other source would result in substantial duplication of cost to the Government that is not expected to be recovered through competition (FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)(iii)(A)). The anticipated period of performance is one year with four one-year option periods. The solicitation will request a proposal from Compusult Limited for a stand-alone contract under FAR Part 15 procedures. This notice is being posted at least 15 calendar days prior to the issuance of the sole source solicitation to Compusult Limited (RFP# HM0476-20-R-0067) IAW FAR FAR 5.203(a). The solicitation will not be posted; however, any firm that wishes to assert its ability to meet the requirement without substantial duplication of cost to the Government may email written notification to the Contracting Officer by 1500 EST 02 October 2020 (15 calendar days from this posting). Should a firm choose to respond, the response shall include supporting evidence and not exceed three pages--the Government is not seeking white papers or capability statements. Responses received will be reviewed by the Government; however, a determination by the Government to compete the proposed procurement based on any challenges to this notice is not guaranteed and is solely within the Government's discretion.