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CISAM 3013.106-1(a)(1) Sole Source Justification (SSJ)

SSJ No: FY22-0337 Page 1 of 2 Rev: 04/01/2020

SSJ Number: FY22-0337 Procurement Request (PR) Number:

Sole Source Justification

1. Agency and Contracting Activity.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Office of Contracting (OCON), proposes to award a purchase order on behalf of the Office of the Chief Counsel (OCC).

2. Nature and/or description of the item/service being procured and anticipated cost.

DHS, USCIS, OCC, have prepared this justification for the procurement of annual online law research tool subscriptions, AILALink, provided by the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), to accomplish their mission critical functions, as an exception to fair opportunity. The AILALink subscription includes the following:

Electronic copies of most AILA publications, including popular publications such as Kurzban's Immigration Law Sourcebook, AILA’s Immigration Law Practice and Procedure Manual: A “Cookbook” of Essential Practice Materials, Business Immigration: Law and Practice, AILA's Asylum Primer, Immigration Consequences of Criminal Activity, AILA's Toolbox series, and many more.

Up-to-date, searchable versions of the INA and the immigration-related portions of the CFR.

Selected immigration-related case law.

Memos and letters from the various immigration-related government agencies.

Selected immigration-related reports and practice advisories.

Searchable copies of immigration-related government manuals, including the Foreign Affairs Manual, USCIS Policy Manual, EOIR Policy Manual, and many more.

The contents within the AILALink online subscriptions are in use by USCIS, OCC attorneys and the up-to-date information and publications found within the online subscriptions are necessary to stay current on legal issues related to immigration. The AILALink online subscriptions cannot be obtained by any other vendor.

USCIS, OCON intends to procure these AILALink online subscriptions from the following vendor:

AILA

Suite 300, 1331 G Street NW Washington, D.C. 20005-3142 Unique Entity ID (UEI): P39RZM4PKFN3

The Independent Government Cost Estimate (IGCE) for this requirement is . The tentative delivery date for the AILALink online subscriptions is within fifteen (15) days from the issuance of the purchase order.

3. Identification of the authority and rationale.

The proposed procurement will utilize simplified acquisition procedures and will be awarded on a sole source basis in accordance with FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i) and as specified below.

Other. Only one source is capable.

Rationale:

The content found in the above subscriptions is proprietary to AILA, who is the sole owner of the AILALink database and all intellectual property rights embodied therein, including copyrights and trademarks. USCIS, OCC has been purchasing several