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Notice of Intent to Sole Source - IMPLAN Economic Data and Multipliers for USACE Regional Economic Development Analysis

Department of Defense · Department of the Army · W4LD USA HECSA
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Solicitation details

Solicitation number
W912HQ26S0053
Notice type
Special Notice
NAICS
541720
Product service code
B507
Set-aside
Unrestricted
Posted
2026-08-07
Response deadline
Aug 24, 2026, 8:30 PM UTC
Contracting contact
david.a.kaplan@usace.army.mil

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Statement of work, as posted

This is a Special Notice prepared in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 5.2, Synopsis of Proposed Contract Actions. A Solicitation will not be posted, however any firm who believes it can perform the required services may give written notice to the Contracting Officer within 15 days of publication of this Special Notice. Supporting evidence must be in sufficient detail to demonstrate the ability to comply with the requirement. Responses received will be evaluated; however a determination by the Government to compete the requirement based on the responses to this Special Notice is solely the discretion of the Government. The US Army Corps of Engineers Mission Support Battalion (UMSB) intends to award a sole source fixed-price contract to IMPLAN LLC for the required economic data. This Notice of Intent to award a sole source contract is not a request for competitive proposals. Any responses or inquiries to this notice must demonstrate clear and convincing evidence that competition will be advantageous to the Government. All information received from this notice shall be used for planning and market research purposes only. The determination to refrain from competing proposed contracts based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. The Government will not pay for the preparation of any information submitted or use of such information. Acknowledgement of receipt of responses will not be made, nor will respondents be notified of the evaluation of the information received. Interested parties may express interest and provide a capability statement.

Contact

Point of contact
David A. Kaplan
Role
not stated on this notice — SAM publishes a role for only about 5% of them, so this may be a contract specialist rather than the contracting officer
Email
david.a.kaplan@usace.army.mil
Secondary
Quan.Nguyen@usace.army.mil
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