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 coursesMust maintain current technology to match industryMust have flexibility with training and low down time for course updatesMust have training on the following programming languages:JavaJavaScriptPythonMust have training on the following frameworks:ReactFlaskDjangoReduxMust have training on the following Database systems:PostgreSQLmongoDBAfter 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