832469700 - Sole Source Rationale - OASIS Open Membership - Final for Redact_Redacted.pdf

OASIS Open Membership Renewal EM5

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Sole Source Rationale For all Requirements under SAT

Upon the basis of the following justification, I, as the Contracting Officer, hereby approve this sole source rationale for the proposed contract action pursuant to the authority cited above as the product is essential to the Government's requirements, and market research indicates other companies' products or services do not meet, or cannot be modified to meet, the agency's needs.

1. REQUIRING AGENCY AND CONTRACTING ACTIVITY:

Requiring Agency:

Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)/Enterprise Integration and Innovation

(EII)

6910 Cooper Avenue Fort Meade Maryland 20755

Contracting Activity:

DISA/Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization (DITCO)/PS8332 2300 East Drive Scott Air Force Base, Illinois 62225

2. Procurement Title: Membership Renewal to Organization for the Advancement of

Structured Information Standards (OASIS) Open Funding Document Number: HC1085449204 Contract Number: TBD Task/Delivery Order Number: Not applicable Estimated Value:

3. Regulatory Authority: Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 13.106-1(b)(1). (Open Market Purchase Order) Soliciting from a single source (including brand name). The order may be solicited from one source if the contracting officer determines that only one source is reasonably available (e.g., urgency, exclusive licensing agreements, brand-name).

4. Description of Action: The purpose of this procurement is to provide Emerging Technology (EM) with a recompete contract for annual OASIS Open Membership Renewal with a Period of Performance 01 SEP 2024 through 31 AUG 2025, plus four

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option years through August 31, 2029. A quote for base year with four additional Option Years was obtained, extending this PoP through 31 AUG 2029. This membership supports the technical standardization directed by Department of Defense Instruction (DoDI) 8310.01, Information Technology Standards in the DoD. Fiscal Year (FY) 2024.

This firm-fixed-price contract is a follow-on to existing contract HC102820P0094, which will expire on 31 August 2024. OASIS Open is the only standard development organizations using Extensible Markup Language (XML) technology that is compatible with our current infrastructure, as this membership has been procured for many years.

XML technology is crucial as it provides rules to define any type of data being analyzed.

It is currently working in several areas directly related to the DoD Information Enterprise Architecture including product data, security assertion markup language (SAML), Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI), and Web Services for application frameworks, security, distributed management, remote portlets, and reliable messaging. These efforts relate to DoD Information Enterprise Architecture areas of application, storage, discovery, information assurance and security, mediation, messaging, and web services delivery. The OASIS Open membership is related to DISA's role as the DoD Executive Agent for IT standards. has certified that there is an ongoing need for the OASIS Open Membership as it is required to maintain IT Standards as directed by the DoD. Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Operation and Maintenance Funds were provided under Military Interdepartmental Purchase Request Number

5. Proposed Sole Source Contractor: Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) Open; Cage Code: 1XSH2; Business size: Large.

6. Market Research: Based on current market research it has been determined that only the OASIS Open membership provided by OASIS Open can fully support the needs of the Government. Membership in this non-Government standard is an ongoing effort with EM Director approval. OASIS Open (Cage Code: 1XSH2) has a current active SAM registration through December 17, 2024. Market research has confirmed that the required memberships are not available via an existing Government-wide Acquisition Contracts (GWAC) or through any other contractor. It is recommended that this requirement be procured as a sole source to OASIS, a large business. This procurement will be posted to the SAM.gov website and the solicitation will be sent to the contractor via email.

Based on current market research, dated August 2024, it has been determined that only the brand-name product provided by OASIS can fully meet the Government’s need. This requirement is for proprietary products and/or product support and no competitor functional replacement products exist in the market currently to meet the Government's need. The Government will continue to conduct market research to determine if there are changes in the marketplace that would enable future competitive actions, i.e., there are similar products and/or product support in the marketplace that provides the same functionality, the original equipment manufacturer releases ownership rights of the product, or it is economically feasible to procure a new system.

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Based on the justification provided by Emerging Technology a determination has been made to issue a sole source solicitation from OASIS Open for the above-described requirement.

REQUIREMENTS CERTIFICATION: I certify that the supporting data under my cognizance, which are included in the sole source rationale, are accurate and complete, to the best of my knowledge and belief.

CONTRACTING OFFICER APPROVAL: I have reviewed this sole source rationale and find it to be accurate and complete, to the best of my knowledge and belief. This review serves as approval.