--NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD ON A SOLE SOURCE BASIS

The U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity, 820 Chandler Street, Fort Detrick, MD intends to negotiate a follow-on SOLE SOURCE procurement with Henry Ford Heath Systems. The contractor will provide services, materials, facilities, and equip ment to continue implementation of a Cardiovascular Disease Automated Clinical Practice Guideline (ACPG), as well as perform data collection and analysis for the Preventative Services Clinical Practice Guideline. Henry Ford Health System (HFHS) is a memb er of a public/private partnership with Tripler Army Medical Center facilitated by the Pacific Regional Program Office (now the Hui) to automate cardiovascular clinical practice guidelines that was established as a result of a FY99 appropriation for the De fense Health Program. Due to prior participation in this program, established agreements, and to ensure the compatibility and consistency of approach and the maintenance of present success and failure comparisons of the ACPG project, the current contracto r is the only acceptable source to continue to serve as a partner with the Government for this requirement. The existing partnership has resulted in a working relationship with established agreements that would have to be redeveloped, incurring unnecessar y loss of time and expense to the Government. Competitive bidding would result in significant, project delays, would require duplication of cost to the government, and would not result in cost savings. This is a SOLE SOURCE procurement under the authori ty of FAR 6.302-1 and is not a request for competitive quotes. However, statements of capability to fulfill this requirement received from other responsible businesses prior to close of business on 03 September 2004 will be evaluated. Offerors responding to this notice must provide a statement of capability to the Contract Specialist. Please contact the Contract Specialist at +1 (555) 000-0000 or email: contact@example.gov