The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases for (NCEZID) in Atlanta, Georgia, intends to negotiate a sole source contract with Palantir Technologies for the acquisition of its hardware and software licenses.
The notice indicates that: “Palantir is the only company authorized to work with their proprietary system and data, and in order to continue with a unified software platform for data integration an award must be made to Palantir to continue the project. Palantir licenses its software to CDC to support surveillance and outbreak activities. They provide software updates, patches, maintenance and support. Palantir has intimate knowledge and expertise with the development of the core modules on the Palantir platform. This makes them uniquely qualified to provide licenses, software components, modifications and enhancements to the Palantir product. Additionally, Palantir has specific proprietary knowledge regarding the Palantir platform hardware, system configurations, performance settings, etc. Award of the task to a different vendor will result in significant costs to the government and unacceptable delays due to rework.”
Responses are due by May 11, 2018.
