lsj.pdf

Single Source Justification

Western Area Power Administration

FAR 13.106-1(b)(1), Simplified Acquisitions

(For use with actions between $3,000-$150,000.

18WA127765

1. Identification of the agency and the contracting office.

Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), Upper Great Plains Region, Billings, Montana.

2. Description of supply or service required to meet the agency’s needs.

Purchase Sun-Net Consulting, for Web-Based Software Applications and Support utilized by the

Operations, Maintenance, Power Marketing and Information Technology Divisions of WAPA. This procurement is for enhancements to Web-Based Software Applications. This will be a limited source/brand name simplified acquisition. The Government intends to award a firm-fixed price order.

3. The rationale or circumstances for limiting competition.

WAPA requires specific developed enhancements of the existing services which include: 24x7x365 subscription-based Transmisson Outage Software Suite (iTOA) for Scheduling and Coordination, Logging, Switching and Reporting.

iTOA Software Suite - Enterprise software that handles our Operations processes including long and short term planning to real-time logging and reporting. Functions within the iTOA are

Outage/Work Request Planning, Scheduling and Coordination, Switching, electronic Logging for

Operations and Dispatch events, logging for Interruptions and Forced Outages, Event Analysis and

Reporting, Comprehensive Switching Program Writing and Retrieval, Substation Entry/Exit

Logging via Substation Interactive Voice Response, ISO/RTO communication and NERC compliance and reporting.

These services are already in place and are intended to relieve WAPA of the administrative, development, and maintenance duties associated with North American Energy Standards

Board (NAESB) standards for transmitting information regarding every electric power interchange transaction.

WAPA has been using Sun-Net’s TOA software suite for the past 1 1 years to facilitate the functionality needed to be compliant with the FERC, NERC, NAESB and WECC standards. It is imperative for business continuity and reliability that WAPA continues its subscription for these software applications, uninterrupted. The various software applications are interdependent and cannot run without the other and cannot be reproduced by any other vendor due to iTOA being proprietary software.

All regions of WAPA utilize the iTOA Software Suite incorporates API interfaces with PeakRC and

SPP for mandatory transmission availability reporting.

WAPA's internal developed systems and Commercial-off-the Shelf (COTS) software have been fully integrated with Sun-Net’s iTOA Software Suite, which, without the continued use of this service, WAPA would not be able to perform its Operation functions of scheduling coordination, switching, logging and reporting.

WAPA has spent significant money, time and resources to integrate these systems with Sun-Net’s services to be compliant with industry standards and practices. It would require approximately

3 years’ worth of additional time by six developers and four testers, and cause significant cost to WAPA to integrate these new systems with another vendor's products. These costs would not be recovered through competition, not to mention it would disrupt the continuity of WAPA’s

Power Operation's function. This does not include any customizations or enhancements that may be required of another vendor's product. Without these services, the Operation's will not be able to perform their duties of transmission outage planning, scheduling and reporting.

The only known source of supply is Sun-Net Consulting Inc., 5671 Santa Teresa Blvd, #205, San

Jose, CA 95123.