Notice of Intent to Sole Source

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) intends to award a single, firm fixed price, follow-on Intelligence Community (IC)-Wide contract to HireVue, Inc., a Small Business. An IC pilot contract was previously established with HireVue for its Software as a Service (SaaS) on-demand and live video interview capability. During the pilot contract, HireVue's SaaS was specially tailored to meet the IC's on-demand and live video interview needs and implemented by certain IC elements. The purpose of the follow-on contract is to provide the resulting highly specialized SaaS to the entire IC to meet an initiative from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to develop more robust processes for the IC to collaboratively recruit and hire. This action is being conducted in accordance with FAR Part 6.302-1 - Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. This exception is applicable due to the fact that award to any other contractor would likely result in unacceptable delays, as well as a duplication of cost that is not expected to be recovered through competition. Additionally, HireVue, Inc. is the only known contractor that is capable of meeting all of the Government's essential requirements. Establishing an IC-wide contract for this capability has been an initiative that ODNI has been working towards for many years. The IC pilot contract with HireVue was established to assess the potential benefit and feasibility of these services. Given the positive results and the benefits gained from the pilot contract and HireVue's specialization of its SaaS offering for the IC, the Government is now ready to implement the final stage of its initiative where this capability will be available to the whole IC. Award to any other source for an online interview SaaS would likely result in duplication of costs and unacceptable delays. HireVue has already been proven during the pilot contract. If a follow-on IC-Wide contract is not awarded to HireVue at this stage of the initiative, then the Government would have to conduct a source selection and award another similar pilot contract before that SaaS could be rolled out to the entire IC. Going through the pilot process again would be necessary for any new contractor as their services would need to be determined beneficial and feasible, and their SaaS offering customized, before providing it to the entire IC. This approach would result in unacceptable delays considering the amount of time that would be required to plan and conduct a source selection, and the period of performance of a new pilot itself. Such a competition and award of a new pilot contract would cost the Government a lot of time and money just to get back to the same point it is in right now. Also, the current pilot contract expires in September 2020, so an extension would be necessary in order to prevent a break in service while the Government conducted a source selection. This approach would also result in a duplication of cost. It would cost the Government a duplication of costs for personnel salaries to plan and conduct the source selection; the cost associated with the new pilot itself; and the cost associated with the extension of the current pilot contract. Separately, market research has revealed that HireVue, Inc. is the only known contractor that is capable of meeting all of the Government's essential requirements, which includes but not limited to; compliance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, FedRAMP certification, providing separate instances of the online interview tool for each IC element, 24x7x365 helpdesk support for both external and internal interviewers, ensuring that each IC element only has access to its own applicant records, and usage reporting on all IC elements. Although there are similar offerings in the marketplace, none of those offerings have all of these unique and essential characteristics required by the Government. The Government will continue searching the marketplace for competitive alternatives. Following the conclusion of this follow-on effort, the Government will compete future requirements to the extent practicable. NGA intends to award this follow-on contract to HireVue, Inc. on Friday, 11 September 2020. The anticipated period of performance for this action is one Base Year with three Option Years. All contractor services shall be performed from an off-site, non-Government location. This notice does not constitute a request for proposals, quotations, or bids and does not commit NGA to contract for any supplies or services.