70 -- ANNUAL RENEWAL OF PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE LICENSING

The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts plans to enter into negotiations with SAS Institute, Inc. on a sole source basis to renew its annual licensing fees for several proprietary SAS software products, including Base SAS, SAS/AF, SAS/FSP, SAS/Graph, SAS/ACCESS CA-IDMS, and SAS ASSIST. This contract renewal pertains specifically to the software versions labeled MESA 2000-224 E48289. The government has indicated that this notice serves not as a request for competitive proposals, nor will a Request for Proposal be issued, as the decision to proceed with sole source procurement remains at the government’s discretion based on responses received. All interested parties are instructed to submit information solely via email to the specified contracting officer, Jerry T Pearo, and telephone inquiries will not be accepted. The contract is associated with NAICS code 519190 and was publicly posted on April 10, 2007. The primary purpose of collecting responses is to assess whether a competitive procurement should be conducted, although the government expects to continue with sole source negotiations for this software licensing renewal.