The Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City intends to issue a sole source purchase order to Cochran Undersea Technology, 1758 Firman Drive, Richardson TX 75081-1823 for the acquisition of 20 each of a Navy Dive Computer, P/N 772110571. This procurement is sole source for the following reason: NAVSEA OOC has added the Navy Dive Computer III (NDC) (P/N 772110571) to the Approved for Navy Use (ANU) list for diver equipment. The NDC is a multifunction dive computer that calculates diver decompression schedules and keeps track of dive depth, time, etc. It is considered life support equipment and is the only dive computer on the ANU list. The NDC is the only diver computer on the ANU list. Only those articles that have been successfully tested are qualified. Procedures are specified under SS521-AA-MAN-010 U.S. Navy Diving and Manned Hyperbaric Certification Manual. Cochran Undersea Technology is the only responsible source due to their unique qualifications as the only U.S. distributor manufacturer of these items. The proposed contract action is for supplies or services for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. The North American Industry Classification System Code (NAICS) is 541512, and the small business size standard is 500 employees. The Department of Defense will no longer award contracts to contractors not registered in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) Database. Registration may be accomplished by accessing the CCR website at http://www.ccr.gov/. Award will be based on a fair and reasonable price on or about 04/18/11.

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