The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Eastern Acquisition Division intends to utilize the authority under the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 13.106(b)(1), to purchase two new acoustic release command deck sets from EdgeOne, LLC. for the National Data Buoy Center at Stennis Space Center, MS.Sole Source Justification:The government intends to buy solely from Edge One LLC. The EdgeOne 8242XS acoustic releases contain proprietary hardware and firmware. Included in this proprietary firmware are specific command structures to activate the release, to get ranging information, and to provide tilt information. The deck set to communicate with these releases must have the same proprietary firmware that can send the release and ranging commands and receive the responses from the acoustic release. Essentially, the acoustic release and the deck set must co
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