lsj.pdf

Sole Source Justification

Western Area Power Administration

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

20WA133470

1. Identification of the Program Office.

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

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

This purchase is for annual renewal of third party support for Nexant, Inc. software suite used to run

WAPA's SCADA System and Energy Management System (EMS) GE PowerOn software support. A sole source fixed price contract will be awarded.

3. The rationale or circumstances for limiting competition.

Software support is necessary in order to ensure rapid response for software problems on the

SCADA/EMS systems. It is required to maintain the required level of reliability for power systems operations. The bundled Nexant, Inc. / GE products include: 1) Generalized State Estimator, Network

Topology, 2) Powerflow, Penalty Factor Calculation, Contingency Selection/Analysis (SCOPE Base), and 3) Active/Reactive Power Optimization (SCOPE Optimization). GE is the only offeror for this product. Intellectual property rights held by GE prohibit any other vendor resellers.

This procurement action is to provide software maintenance services in support of the SCADA system.

SCADA has many person-years of development, training, and operational practice specifically in the GE

EMS SCADA system. SCADA is a highly specialized and customized application. The system is based on proprietary GE Network Solutions designs that no other vendor has access to.