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PRE-SOLICITATION NOTICE – NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE NOI-NIAID-25-2253857 NAICS – 517111, Wired Telecommunications Carriers This is a Notice of Intent, not a request for proposal. The National In... PRE-SOLICITATION NOTICE – NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE NOI-NIAID-25-2253857 NAICS – 517111, Wired Telecommunications Carriers This is a Notice of Intent, not a request for proposal. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) intends to negotiate on an other than full and open competition basis with Lumen Technologies Government Solutions to procure the renewal of 10GB optical wave transport service for the Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) in Hamilton, Montana to a telecom crossroads in Chicago, Illinois that ultimately connects to NIAID’s leased space within an Ashburn, Virginia collocation site. The line supports RML’s access to NIAID’s centralized business and scientific functions, such as genomic sequencing services, to NIAID laboratories located in Maryland. The RML generates terabytes of data that must be transmitted back to NIAID research and backup facilities in Maryland and the 10GB high speed connectivity is required to do so. Service delivery to the termination points shall be via 10GB ethernet over dark fiber as required to provide service to run from the Ashburn facility ingress point to NIAID’s leased spaced within the facility. This contractor will be utilized for the renewal due to the current lapse situation as being the best solution for the government under the present emergency-only guidelines of the Presidential Memo on Acquisitions, Alert 2025-02. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Operations and Engineering Branch (OEB) of the Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology (OCICB) manages and develops the technology infrastructure that supports intramural research, extramural investments, and administrative management. OEB services more than 4,000 end users in over 20 locations throughout the United States. Infrastructure services provided by OEB are maintained and used 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Services include application hosting, audio/visual engineering, cybersecurity engineering, cyber and data operations, data center management, high-performance computing, platform engineering and hosting management, network engineering, remote access, scientific infrastructure and technology engineering, and server and database management. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML), performs basic research contributing to the development of diagnostic reagents, therapeutics, and vaccines against human pathogens. The RML constitutes a critical research asset to the whole of NIAID's research community, intramural as well extramural partners. Access by intramural researchers in Bethesda, Maryland to the state-of-the-art technologies maintained at the RML, as well as the global research community's ability to effectively collaborate with RML researchers are vital to accomplishing the Institute's overall mission. This acquisition is to renew the current lease for the 10GB optical wave line to preserve NIAID's link from the RML in Hamilton, Montana to Virginia/Maryland for FY25. The Contractor will receive the optical waves and maintain the 10Gbps fiber optic network transport route currently in use. Service delivery to the termination points will continue to be via 10GB Ethernet over dark fiber. The current lease contract ended on 1/26/2025, so this is an emergency request to avoid further lapse in service to avoid loss of connectivity. This company has been granted government and NIH IT security approval, and additionally, this is considered an Essential Procurement under Presidential Memo Acquisitions Alert 2025-02 for continuation of anything directly related to IT security. The statutory authority for this sole source requirement is 41 U.S.C. 1901 (a) (1) as implemented by FAR 13.106-1 only one responsible source and no other supply of service will satisfy agency requirements. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. All responsible sources that could provide comparable services may submit a capability statement. All required documents must be submitted via the NIAID electronic Simplified Acquisition Submission System (eSASS) website at https://esass.nih.gov by February 24, 2025 at 12:00 pm ET. All vendors must register in the eSASS system to submit their documentation. Instructions on how to register /submit documents are included on the website. All responses received by the closing date of this synopsis will be considered by the Government. A determination not to compete this requirement, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government.