26Q0011 - R6 Trimble GNSS Purchase_Single Source Justification_Redacted.pdf

This is a Sole Source or Brand Name Justification document for a federal procurement action by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) R6 Lands Zones in Vancouver and Colville, Washington.

The USFS requires updated survey-grade GPS receivers and data collection equipment to replace aging and obsolete equipment at these two locations in compliance with Executive Order 14225 and USDA Secretarial Memo 1078-006. The total estimated equipment value is redacted in the document. The order must be placed by the end of fiscal year 2025 to utilize FY25 funding that does not carry over to FY26, with delivery required by March 2025. The justification supports sole-source procurement from Frontier Precision, the authorized vendor for Washington and Oregon, which is the only source capable of providing Trimble brand GPS receivers and data collectors that can integrate with existing Trimble equipment currently in use by USFS survey teams. The document emphasizes that full integration with retained Trimble equipment is required; other non-Trimble equipment would necessitate substantial additional software and hardware acquisition with significant cost and time implications. Additionally, the CIO has pre-approved and exempted Trimble branded GPS receivers and data collectors from Technical Approval requirements based on IT security standards compliance, while comparable non-Trimble alternatives lack this pre-approval and would require individual evaluation. The contracting officer determined under FAR 13.106-1(b) that only a single source is available for the required services based on integration requirements, security standards compliance, and cost considerations.