1.04 FAR 13 - Justification for Sole Source Less Than SAT - MacBooks redacted.pdf

FAR 13.106-1(b) 1 of 4

JUSTIFICATION FOR SOLE SOURCE (<SAT)

The service or material listed on 1300840393 is sole source (brand name) and competition is precluded for reasons indicated below. There are no substitutes available for this material or service.

Restricted to the following source. Provide original manufacturer’s name. (If a sole source manufacturer distributes via dealers, ALSO provide dealer information.)

Manufacturer: Apple Manufacturer POC & phone nr:

Dealer / Rep: CDW-Government. LLC Dealer POC & Phone Number: Adam Boothe 1-866-224-6407 Dealer Address: 200 N.

Milwaukee Avenue, Vernon Hills, IL 60061

Dealer / Rep: Mac Business Solutions, Inc.

Dealer POC & Phone Number: Jose Perales 301-590-2555 Dealer Address: 9057 Gaither Road, Gaithersburg, MD 20877

Dealer / Rep: Transource Services Corp Dealer POC & Phone Number: Charles Hunt 623-879-8882 x136 Dealer Address: 2405 West Utopia Road, Phoenix AZ 85027

__X__ Description of the item or service required, the estimated cost, and required delivery date.

The current inventory of Apple MacBook Pros purchased in 2010 are outdated and in need of a tech refresh. NAVSUP BSC’s current inventory of Apple Macbook Pros lack the processing power and overall storage needed to move the mobile computing of BSC’s customers into the future. Purchasing Apple Macbook Pros would be consistent with BSC’s current inventory and knowledge base. Demand for new web-based and mobile-first products and services continues to increase compounding the need/requirement for professional-grade web design/development hardware and software. Apple MacBooks (and the Mac OS) are required to reliably install and operate the Adobe Creative Cloud (CC) suite of products used for most major web and mobile design and development projects.

The estimated cost is and the required delivery date is within three weeks of the purchase order award date.

__X__ Specific characteristics of the material or service that limit the availability to a sole source (unique features, function of the item, etc.). Describe in detail why only this suggested source can furnish the requirements to the exclusion of other sources.

Apple Macbook Pros are the current method of mobile app development for NAVSUP BSCs CLOUD team. BSC’s current inventory is outdated and are no longer running at maximum efficiency. The CLOUD team would benefit from the tech refresh in several ways with their deployment pipleline initiative as well as having Improved Adobe

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Creative Cloud usability The Adobe CC suite of products run very slow and are unreliable on Windows-based systems. Additionally, NAVSUP has partnered with Software as a Service (SaaS) provider ACQUIA to migrate NAVSUP’s public web site and content to a FedRAMP Impact Level 2 (IL2) cloud host on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The ACQUIA framework, based on the Drupal open source Web Content Management Framework (WCMF), requires the establishment of a local development environment (local laptop) capable of hosting a full LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PhP) and a Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline using the Build Load Transfer (BLT) software. The BLT software is not compatible with the Windows OS inhibiting NAVSUP’s ability to properly establish a secure development environment and deployment pipeline to the ACQUIA cloud.

__X__ The requested material or service represents the minimum requirements of the government.

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CHECK & FILL IN ALL APPLICABLE BLANKS BELOW

____ The material/service must be compatible in all aspects (form, fit and function) with existing systems presently installed/performing. Describe the equipment/function you have now and how the new item/service must coordinate, connect, or interface with the existing system.

____ A patent, copyright or proprietary data limits competition. The proprietary data is ___________

_X__ These are “direct replacements” parts/components for existing equipment.

_X___ Other information to support a sole source buy:

The contracting office issued an RFI seeking alternative laptops that would meet the requirements stated by NAVSUP BSC. The contracting office received two responses and forwarded to NAVSUP BSC TAs for review. NAVSUP BSC confirmed that the two alternatives will not meet the minimum specifications as stated.

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I CERTIFY THAT STATEMENTS CHECKED, AND INFORMATION PROVIDED ABOVE, ARE

COMPLETE AND CORRECT TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE. I UNDERSTAND THAT THE

PROCESSING OF THIS SOLE SOURCE JUSTIFICATION PRECLUDES THE USE OF FULL AND

OPEN COMPETITION.

Contracting Officer Signature

Date ___04/07/2020__________________________ SAP Sole Source