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Special Notice - Intent to Sole Source The Department of the Interior (DOI) – Bureau of Land Management (BLM), National Operations Center (NOC), in support of the Division of Resource Services intends to award a Firm Fixed Price contract on a sole source basis to Headwaters Economics Inc, located at 270 W Kagy BLVD STE G, Bozeman, Montana, 59715, under the authority as prescribed in FAR 6.302-1. The requirement is for the purchase of data updates for the Socioeconomic Profile (SEP) tool and the Economic Profile System (EPS). Based on Market Research, Headwaters Economics Inc is the only company that can perform the updates to the database, processing procedures, and backups hosted on Headwaters Economics servers. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) for this requirement is 541511 and the size standard is $34M. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS. No solicitation document is available. Interested parties may identify their interest and capability by sending responses regarding this requirement to The Department of the Interior (DOI) – Bureau of Land Management (BLM), National Operations Center (NOC), via email ONLY to Shawn Haubner at shaubner@ios.doi.gov. The Bureau of Land Management will not pay for any information or administrative cost incurred in response to the Notice. All costs associated with responding to this Notice will be solely at the expense of the interested party.