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 Stryder Corp doing business as Handshake, a Small Business. An IC pilot contract was previously established with Handshake for a Software as a Service (SaaS) college recruitment platform to deliver personalized candidate experiences to potential IC applicants and to simplify the recruiter on-campus, conference, and interview experience. During the pilot contract, Handshake's SaaS was specially tailored to meet the IC's needs and implemented by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). 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 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, Handshake 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 Handshake 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 Handshake'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 a college recruitment SaaS would likely result in duplication of costs and unacceptable delays. Handshake has already been proven during the pilot contract. If a follow-on IC-Wide contract is not awarded to Handshake 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. This approach would also result in a duplication of cost for personnel salaries to plan and conduct the source selection, and the cost associated with the 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. Separately, market research has revealed that Handshake is the only known contractor that is capable of meeting all of the Government's essential requirements, which includes but is not limited to; the capability to post jobs to 1000+ colleges and universities simultaneously, posting and managing events, conducting event check-in, and conducting unlimited video content. 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 Handshake 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.