# PTSD: Intent to Sole Source - Biorepository Brain Bank Advertisement Services

Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/36c24124q0346

- Solicitation number: 36C24124Q0346
- Notice type: Special notice
- Status: Awarded to American Studies Center
- Department: Department of Veterans Affairs
- Contracting office: 241-Network Contract Office 01 (36C241)
- NAICS: 541810 Advertising Agencies
- Product or service code: R708 Public Relations Services(includes writing services, event planning and management, media relations, radio and television analysis, and press services)
- Place of performance: Brockton, Massachusetts
- County: Plymouth County (FIPS 25023). https://abierto.us/counties/plymouth-county-ma-25023
- City: Brockton. https://abierto.us/cities/brockton-ma-2509000
- First posted: March 19, 2024
- Last posted: March 19, 2024
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/38cbc976f9e44d75bb4248504bae6b4b/view

## Description

NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE This notice is being published in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 5.101 requiring dissemination of information for proposed contract actions. This is a notice of intent to award a sole source contract, and is not a request for competitive quotes/proposals. The statutory authority for this sole source procurement is prescribed by FAR Subpart 13.106-1(b)(1)(i).

The Department of Veterans Affairs intends to award a Sole Source contract to American Veterans Center. This purchase order is for PTSD Brain Bank Advertisement Services and will use Simplified Acquisition Procedures and Other Than Full and Open Competition.

The authority for soliciting a single source under simplified acquisition procedures is FAR Subpart 13.106-1(b)(1)(i) which states that contracting officers may solicit from one source if the contracting officer determines that the circumstances of the contract action deem only one source reasonably available (e.g., urgency, exclusive licensing agreements, brand-name or industrial mobilization). The proposed contract action is Sole Source.

In accordance with FAR Subpart 5.102, the required justification documentation is attached. No solicitation or RFQ will be forthcoming. Interested parties may identify their interest and submit product information in response to this office via email to michael.alvarado3@va.gov A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract is entirely at the discretion of the Government.

## Award on USAspending

- Recipient: American Studies Center (UEI HGMJB2P8UCN7)
- Contract: 36C24124P0474, purchase order
- Obligated: $14,000.00
- Competition: Competed Under SAP, 1 offers received
- Link: solicitation number 36C24124Q0346 equals the FPDS solicitation identifier; same awarding office 36C241 (high confidence)
- Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_36C24124P0474_3600_-NONE-_-NONE-/


## Publications

- March 19, 2024: Special notice, due March 26, 2024 at 10:00 AM EDT. Notice 21fb22a790244659b27a77aa07e20447. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/21fb22a790244659b27a77aa07e20447/view
- March 19, 2024: Special notice, due March 26, 2024 at 10:00 AM EDT. Notice 38cbc976f9e44d75bb4248504bae6b4b. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/38cbc976f9e44d75bb4248504bae6b4b/view

## Points of contact

- Michael Alvarado, Contracting Specialist, michael.alvarado3@va.gov, 317-771-8176

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