Business Operation Support Services

This is a Notice of Intent to extend the Contractor support services on a sole source basis to obtain contractor business operations support services for the accounting functions located at the USCG Finance Center (FINCEN) in Chesapeake, Virginia related to the Core Enterprise Financial Suite. This extension is permitted under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.302-1 Other Than Full and Open Competition and is in accordance with FAR clause 52.217-8, Option to Extend Services (Nov 1999). These business operations support services are recurring activities required to comply with federal financial accounting standards and perform the accounting functions. The support services require expertise in the accounting field and specifically with the Oracle Federal Financials suite, USCG Local Feeder Applications, and support applications. This does NOT include any C4IT type duties and responsibilities nor does it include processing of individual transactions typically performed by the end users. This will be the only Notice of the Governments Intent to extend the current order. Firms having the ability to provide this service should notify Lisa Penn in writing via e-mail at lisa.m.penn@uscg.mil by 5:00 P.M. EST by January 30, 2018. No extensions will be granted. All responses from qualified sources will be fully considered. Responses to this notice must show clear and convincing evidence that competition would be advantageous to the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. The USCG will not be responsible for any costs incurred by interested parties in responding to this notice.