Summary
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Notice of Intent to Sole Source for the FDA-iRISK® System for Food Safety Risk Assessment, an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract. Pursuant to FAR 6.302-1, FDA intends to sole source with Risk Sciences International (Ottawa, Canada) for management and technical activities supporting continued system enhancements and operations and maintenance of the FDA-iRISK capability, including the public FDA-iRISK 1.0 web version and the institutional version. The five-year IDIQ provides for further development of new features in FDA-iRISK to enhance user access, data encryption, and security controls, and interested parties may submit a written response within the response period.