FY26 Bridge Contract for Hosting Storage STaaS _Redacted.pdf

U.S. Department of Justice Justice Management Division Procurement Services Staff Washington, D.C. 20530

Justification for an Exception to Fair Opportunity FAR 16.505(b)(2)(i)(B)

1. Identification of the agency and the contracting activity.

The requiring organization is the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), Justice

Management Division (JMD), Service Delivery Staff (SDS), Infrastructure Services (IS).

The contracting activity is the JMD Procurement Services Staff (PSS).

2. Nature and/or description of the action being approved.

PSS proposes to issue a sole source task order against National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) V, Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) NNG15SD19B for Storage and Backup services. The proposed contractor is Alvarez and Associates, LLC. located at 8251 Greensboro Drive, Suite 230, Tysons Corner, VA 22102. Alvarez is currently performing the services under against NASA SEWP GWAC

NNG15SD19B.

The sole-source task order is for the continued performance for Storage as a Service (STaaS) for a period of 6-months beginning October 1, 2025, through March 31, 2026.

3. Description of the supplies or services required to meet the agency’s needs, including the estimated value.

The Storage and Backup Team has a requirement to provide secure, durable, and highly scalable storage and backups with a storage-as-a-service (STaaS) solution that offers prompt provisioning of additional capacity whenever needed. This requirement is to provide enterprise-level storage, backup, and restore including archive with reliable redundant architecture and performance re balancing. Finally, the requirement is to provide secure and scalable storages and data protection including Data-At-Rest Encryption (DARE).

’s as-a-Service (aaS) contract model provides a capacity-based solution for DOJ.

- will provide the DOJ with a dynamically scalable capacity-based service using an on-demand approach that will readily adjust to changes in processing and throughput requirements, both increases and decreases, and is priced on an as-ordered basis.

5. A determination by the contracting officer that the anticipated cost to the Government will be fair and reasonable.

The Contracting Officer has determined that the pricing under the resulting contract will be the same pricing in effect under the current Period of Performance for the new order. The pricing for the current Period of Performance was determined fair and reasonable upon award utilizing techniques in accordance with FAR 15.404-1(b)(2).

6. Description of the market research conducted among schedule holders and the results, or a statement of the reason market research was not conducted.

7. Any other facts supporting the justification.

The SDS staff is continually evaluating new offerings from vendors as they come to market and any that will meet the needs of the Department’s mission, while saving the

Government on the total cost of ownership, will be fully considered during the next procurement cycle.

8. Statement of the actions, if any, the agency may take to remove or overcome any barriers that led to the restricted consideration before any subsequent acquisition for the supplies or services is made.

None