Purchase Manuals and User’s Guide

The Naval Criminal Investigative Services (NCIS) plans to award a sole source purchase order to PEARSON CLINICAL, Inc., located in Bloomington, Minnesota, for the procurement of specialized testing materials. These materials include manuals, user guides, answer sheets, test booklets, mail-in interpretive reports and kits, answer keys, and scales for hand-scoring profile forms. These items are essential for NCIS to evaluate individual profiles to determine suitability for specific support roles within the organization. The sole source award is justified under FAR 6.302-1, as PEARSON CLINICAL is the only responsible supplier of these particular tests used by NCIS. This acquisition reflects NCIS’s need to exclusively source these proprietary testing tools without competition to meet their operational requirements. Questions regarding the procurement process were to be submitted in writing to the designated purchasing agent by a specified deadline. The contracting office is based at the Naval Criminal Investigative Service facility in Quantico, Virginia, and the contract falls under the NAICS code 323117, relating to printing and related support activities. The decision not to compete the acquisition rests solely with the government, underscoring the unique nature of the materials and their critical role in NCIS’s personnel assessment processes.