PETRA SOFWARE LICENSE RENEWAL Notice of Intent

Petra Software License Renewal NOTICE OF INTENT This is a notice of intent to solicit from a single source. The US Geological Survey (USGS) intends to award a purchase order to IHS Markit for Petra Software License Renewal. The USGS, California Water Science Center, has a large cooperative program designed to determine where oil and gas development activities may affect groundwater users.

Petra is the software currently being used by our petroleum geologists to store a wide range of information about geological formations and well data and enables a wide range of data analyses in support of interpretations. The need for access to the data available by this license is vital to the efforts of this program and to the USGS mission. IHS Markit is the software developer; no resellers exist.

Award will be made in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 13.106-1(b) and the procedures at FAR Part 12 entitled, Acquisition of Commercial Items and Commercial Services. Petra is a proprietary software only available from IHS Markit. The software is unique in terms of its capability to import and use information produced by the petroleum industry such as digital well logs, formation maps, and core data in combination with analytical tools to speed standard petrophysical interpretations.

The purpose of this notice is to satisfy the requirements of FAR Subpart 5.2. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotes. However, all responsible parties may submit a quotation which shall be considered by the agency. No solicitation will be issued. A determination not to compete this action based upon responses received is in the sole discretion of the Government.

The NAICS code 541511 Custom Computer Programming, standard size 34 and PSC 7A21 IT and Telecom ¿ Business Application Software (Perpetual License Software) apply to this announcement. Responses or inquiries shall only be accepted through electronic mail addressed to rlujan@usgs.gov and must be uploaded and received in their entirety no later than March 24 2025 at 0800 hrs central time. Responses submitted by hardcopy or the any web portal shall not be accepted or considered.