The US Government Publishing Office (GPO) seeks other than full and open competition and intend to award a sole source contract to CloudFlare, Corporate Headquarters 101 Townsend Street San Francisco, CA 94107.  CloudFlare will be required to provide adequate defense against a DDoS attack that any person or group on the Internet could choose to mount against GPO's Internet facing web sites and connections.  The Government's intent is to award a contract for one (1) year from October 31, 2016 through October 1, 2017.

The statutory  authority permitting the sole sourcing of services is MMAR 6.302-1, 41 U.S.C. 5(3), "Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements".  This notice is neither a request for proposals nor a solicitation of offers.  A determination by the government not to compete this proposed effort on a full and open competition basis, based on responses to this notice, is soley within the discretion of the government.  Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice.  All responses shall be sent to Ingrid Gibson-Smith at [email protected] on or before October 7, 2016 no later than 10:00 AM, EST.