NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE

The Mission and Installation Contracting Command, Fort Eisenhower, GA intends to negotiate/award a sole-source contract with the Escal Institute of Advanced Technologies, Inc. dba SANS Institute (“SANS”).

The SANS Institute will provide instructor (s) and combined training

consisting of eight (8) of their Commercial of the Shelf Training (COTS-T)

courses along with five (5) Certifications (See below). COTS-T courses

shall run consecutively during the 19 weeks, 4 days AOC-A Functional

course.

 SEC 560: Enterprise Penetration Testing

 SEC 542: Web App Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking

 SEC 580: Metasploit for Enterprise Penetration Testing

 SEC 565: Red Team Operations and Adversary Emulation

 SEC 599: Defeating Advanced Adversaries-Purple Team Tactics & Kill

Chain Defenses

 SEC 660: Advanced Penetration Testing, Exploit Writing, and Ethical

Hacking

 FOR 508: Advanced Incident Response, Threat Hunting, and Digital

Forensics

 SEC 699: Purple Team Tactics-Adversary Emulation for Breach Prevention

& Detection

 GPEN: GIAC Penetration Tester

 GWAPT: GIAC Web Application Penetration Tester

 GCFA: GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst

 GDAT: GIAC Defending Advanced Threats

 GXPN: GIAC Exploit Researcher and Advanced Penetration Tester

The NAICS code is 611420 - Computer Training. The authority for this non-competitive award is FAR 13.501 Only one source reasonably available, exclusive licensing agreements. THIS NOTICE IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS and a solicitation will not be issued. Interested concerns must show clear and convincing evidence that competition of this requirement would be advantageous to the Government.  If no affirmative written responses are received by 26 April 2024, the award will be made without further notice. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. A determination by the government not to compete this proposed requirement is solely within the discretion of the government.