Notice of Intent to Award UVIFY

Project Description: NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A CONTRACT WITHOUT ENGAGING IN A STANDARD PROCUREMENT PROCESS
Issuing and Conducting Procurement Unit: Alpine School District
In accordance with Utah Code Part 63G-6a Part 8 and Utah Administrative Code R33-108, this is a notice of intent to award without engaging in a standard procurement process. It is not a request for quotes, bids or proposals. DO NOT submit questions, bids, no-bids or other information in this system.
NO ACTION IS REQUIRED IF YOU AGREE WITH THIS NOTICE.
If there are any other qualified vendors that meet the specifications of this notice, any such vendor must submit the following information via email only to Shauna Markle at smarkle@alpinedistrict.org prior to the event close date.
The name of the contesting vendor and contact person, and a detailed explanation of the challenge, including documentation showing that there are other competing sources for the procurement item.
In addition, a vendor must include: Documentation that the vendor can provide a comparable or better procurement item that meets or exceeds the specifications; documentation that the vendor can also provide the same proprietary procurement item or an equivalent procurement item; and if transitional costs are identified as the justification for this notice, submit a cost comparison of the identified transitional costs with the vendor's anticipated transitional costs. The item must already exist and have been tested to qualify.
NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD WITHOUT ENGAGING IN A STANDARD PROCUREMENT PROCESS
The Utah Procurement Code provides that a purchase may be made without engaging in a standard procurement process if it can be determined in writing that:
there is only one source for the procurement item;
transitional costs are a significant consideration in selecting a procurement item;
or the award of a contract is under circumstances, described in rules adopted by the applicable rule making authority, that make awarding the contract through a standard procurement process impractical and not in the best interest of the procurement unit.
Alpine School District Purchasing Department has received a request to make the following award without engaging in a standard procurement process:
Requesting School/Department: Cedar Valley High School
Product and/or service to be purchased: 40 drones for outdoor light show.
Proposed Supplier: Uvify
Anticipated expenditure: $56,000
Notice of Intent to Award Without Engaging in a Standard Procurement Process
Reference: Utah Code: 63G-6a-802(1)(c)
Cedar Valley High School currently owns 100 Uvify IFO Swarm Light Show Drone Systems, and wishes to purchase an additional 40 drones. The 40 new drones need to connect to their existing hardware and software in order to coordinate all 140 drones. The existing drones connect to UVIFY IFO Drone Show Controller, RTK tool, and Red Button. (The "red button" for a drone show is a specialized, secondary software mode that provides quick, emergency access to manually override and control the entire drone fleet during a performance). Any possible competitors must be able to seamlessly work with these peripherals as well.