Sole Source Requirement for Trimble S9 Total Station

DescriptionThe US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Pittsburgh District intends to award a sole source purchase order to Precision Laser and Instrument, Inc under the authority of RFO 12.102(a), restricting competition for acquisitions valued at or below the simplified acquisition threshold (SAT). Trimble is the sole manufacturer of survey equipment utilized by the Geospatial Section in LRP, most other districts in LRD, and throughout the enterprise. The Trimble S9 Total Station is a high-precision, robotic total station built for complex surveying, engineering, and monitoring applications. The unit, along with its accessories, is going to be used for numerous types of field surveys to include deformation and boundary. The data collected will be exported into various formats for utilization of many different disciplines in LRP (e.g., drafting, design, boundary rectification). The Trimble S9 purchase will increase efficiency of field data collection and continue to modernize the land survey program.Sole Source Justification The Pittsburgh District (LRP) survey program operates within a highly integrated geospatial ecosystem standardized across USACE, USACE Headquarters (HQ), and the Army Geospatial Center (AGC). Maintaining Trimble equipment is mission-essential to ensure seamless data integration, synchronization, and operational interoperability when executing joint projects with other USACE districts. Furthermore, LRP currently leverages an enterprise network license for Trimble software managed directly by USACE HQ. Introducing a disparate manufacturer would fragment this enterprise architecture, disrupt established workflows, and degrade the districts survey capabilities. Procuring a non-Trimble total station is not a direct, component-level replacement; it necessitates replacing the entire supporting survey ecosystem. A divergent brand requires the simultaneous procurement of proprietary data collectors, specific operating software, PC-based processing software, and proprietary peripherals (batteries, chargers). Replacing the existing, functional Trimble survey architecture with a new contractors ecosystem would result in a substantial duplication of cost to the Government.Currently, all Trimble processing software is vetted and approved by ACE-IT for deployment on the USACE network. Procuring a different manufacturers system would require the use of proprietary PC-based processing software that currently lacks ACE-IT approval. To utilize unapproved software, the Government would be forced to procure separate, standalone data collection platforms (PCs), introducing unnecessary IT security risks, significant administrative delays for risk management framework (RMF) vetting, and further duplicated hardware costs.A full Justification and Approval has been prepared in accordance with agency procedures and will be available upon request. THIS NOTICE IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE QUOTES However interested parties may identify their interest and capability to fulfill this requirement by submitting a capability statement no later than 9 July 2026 to the point of contact listed below.SUBMISSION AND CONTACT INFORMATION Responses must include Company name, UEI number, CAGE code, point of contact information, and a detailed capability statement addressing the requirement. Disclaimer Determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract action based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.This notice is in accordance with RFO 5.101 and RFO 5.201 and fulfills the requirement for publicizing proposed contract actions.