Notice of Intent-Sole Source Udemy Subscription

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) intends to issue a modification to the sole source purchase order to Udemy, Inc., 600 Harrison St., Floor 3, San Francisco, CA, 94107-1300, for an additional 2,500 licenses per year for option years 3 through 4 to the Udemy platform under the authority of FAR 13.106-1 (b) to allow proper time for follow acquisition planning, budgeting and competition. This increase will allow the continuation of an online training platform that provides a variety of IT Software Developer training courses outlined below:

Criteria for a Virtual Training Platform:

• Must offer a variety of IT Software Developer training courses


• Must maintain current technology to match industry


• Must have flexibility with training and low down time for course updates


• Must have training on the following programming languages:
  
  
  
  • Java
  
  
  • JavaScript
  
  
  • Python
  
  
  
  


• Must have training on the following frameworks:
  
  
  
  • React
  
  
  • Flask
  
  
  • Django
  
  
  • Redux
  
  
  
  


• Must have training on the following Database systems:
  
  
  
  • PostgreSQL
  
  
  • mongoDB
  
  
  
  

After extensive market research, NGA believes Udemy is still the only source reasonably available to fully satisfy this requirement. No competition is being sought.

This is a special notice prepared in accordance with the format in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 5.2, Synopses of Proposed Contract Actions. Entities that believe it can meet this requirement may submit a written notification in sufficient detail to demonstrate the ability to comply with the requirement. A determination by the Government to compete the proposed procurement based on the responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.