Limited Source Justification Quantum - SAM_Redacted.pdf

SOLE SOURCE OR LIMITED SOURCES JUSTIFICATION

(APPLICABLE TO PURCHASES >Micro purchase threshold < SAT)

1. Contracting Activity: ASA/OMAS

2. Purchase Request Number: TBD

3. Authority for Action:

FAR 8.405-6(a), Orders exceeding the micro-purchase threshold based on a limited justification.

FAR 8.405-6(b), Items peculiar to one manufacturer. An item peculiar to one manufacturer can be a particular brand name, product, or a feature of a product, peculiar to one manufacturer.

GSAM/R 538.7104-3(a)- Exceeding MPT, but not exceeding the SAT. The ordering activity contracting officer must determine in writing that the circumstances of the acquisition deems only one source reasonably capable of providing the products, services, or solutions (e.g., urgency, exclusive licensing agreements, items particular to one manufacturer).

FAR16.505(b)(2), Exceptions to the fair opportunity process.

4. Describe the supply or service to be acquired and the total estimated dollar value:

The NIH Office of Evaluation, Performance, and Reporting (OEPR), within the Division of

Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives (DPCPSI), Office of the Director, requires comprehensive re-architecture of the Strategic Tracking and Reporting Tool (START) to modernize its technical foundation, consolidate its data infrastructure, and position the platform for long-term scalability, performance, and enterprise interoperability across NIH.

The Contractor shall provide all labor, supervision, technical expertise, architecture design, software development, data migration, testing, documentation, and knowledge transfer services necessary to re-architect the START platform from its current state to a modern, cloud-native, enterprise-grade system. This effort encompasses the re-architecture of START's data infrastructure, application framework, user experience platform, integration layer, analytics and reporting engine, and operational and security posture.

The Period of Performance of this effort is 12 months with an Internal Government Cost Estimate (IGCE) of

5. List the proposed contractor (name, contact, and phone number) or brand name and describe the unique knowledge or capabilities:

QUANTUM INSIGHTS LLC

1506 Pennycress LN Vienna, Virginia 22182, United States 703-909-2024 usheikh@quantuminsights.us

As a subcontractor to Sapient Government Solutions (GS-00F-312CA/75N97024F00081), Quantum Insights has been working with NIH CIT, Office of Evaluation, Performance, and Reporting (OEPR) to support a joint centralization effort which involved the integration of START with the NIH Integrated Data Platform (IDP). Quantum has spent the last six months developing the foundational architecture and design of the current version of START, establishing the technical integration pathway between START and the Integrated Data Platform (IDP), and building the design framework for START 2.0, giving Quantum Insights unique and irreplaceable institutional knowledge of the platform's evolving architecture, data dependencies, and integration requirements.

Quantum is the only vendor with direct, hands-on experience in the database design of both START and IDP, and has developed custom schema and documentation as part of this work that, while government-owned deliverables, are only fully legible and actionable in the hands of the team that produced them; a new vendor would still need to independently interpret this documentation, validate assumptions embedded in the schema design, and reconstruct the underlying decision-making context before being able to use it effectively. This would represent an undue burden to the government by delaying integration effort by several months, and would result in duplicative investment to bring a new vendor up to speed, and without Quantum, would not be in a strong position to detail out the integration pathway and foundation for START 2.0 as this inherently within the intellectual capacity developed within Quantum these last several months.

Such a transition would also risk significant rework, misalignment between START 2.0's design framework and the IDP integration pathway already underway and would jeopardize critical 2026 modernization milestones—including platform integration, UI/UX standardization, and infrastructure upgrades—precisely when NIH is working to consolidate and streamline its IT systems. Given the substantial and quantifiable cost and schedule impact of re-competing this effort, and the practical reality that Quantum's institutional knowledge cannot be efficiently transferred through documentation alone, Quantum is the only responsible source capable of continuing this work without unacceptable disruption, duplicative cost, or delay to the government's IT modernization timeline

6. Describe your market research efforts and efforts to ensure that offers/quotes are solicited from as many potential sources as is practicable:

Quantum Insights was competitively awarded GSA contract 47QTCA21D00BX under a Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) for Information Technology Professional Services and Health Information Technology Services

Health Information Technology Services (SIN’s 54151S – Information Technology Professional Services and 54151HEAL - Health Information Technology Services).