NOAA Fisheries Special Notice of Intent to a Single Source-Echoview Software Maintenance

Special Notice: ACQ-26-0810 NOAA / NMFS / AFSC The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC), intends to award, on a sole source basis, under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b)(1), with Echoview Software PTY LTD., of Battery Point, Australia, to procure the following: Provide Echoview software Maintenance and Technical Support (MATS) for AFSC Echoview licenses AFSC-1, AFSC-2, AFSC-3, AFSC-3A, AFSC-4, AFSC-9, and EV0245. The NOAA Fisheries Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC) Midwater Assessment and Conservation Engineering (MACE) group conducts hydroacoustic trawl surveys in the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea. These surveys support the Magnuson-Stevens Fisher