A02 - DnF Determination-under-SAT Rev0315Apr2021redacted_Redacted.pdf

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Program/Equipment:

Atlassian New Renewal Licenses

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Memorandum for Record – Limiting Competition at or below the Simplified Acquisition Threshold

1. Contracting Activity: Army Contracting Command - Division E

6565 Surveillance Loop, Building 6001 Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland 21005

2. Description of Action: Atlassian - Licenses, New and Renewals Requirement

Contract Vehicle: CHESS ITES-SW2 Contract

Pricing/Contract Type: Firm-Fixed Price

Funds: Fiscal Year (FY21) Operations & Maintenance, Army (OMA)

Name of Contractor(s) and Address:

TBD

Brand Name Buy: Yes, Atlassian, 888 Broadway, 4th floor, New York, NY 10003 is the software publisher and owner of the copyright and uses resellers.

3. Description of Services or Supplies: This proposed action is for the award of a new, Firm-Fixed-Price, delivery order for various new and renewal Atlassian licenses,.

The contract will consist of a base year only, as Atlassian does not quote option years.

The estimated cost of the base is . FY21 Operation and Maintenance, Army (OMA) funds will be used for this effort. The anticipated award date is March 2021.

The Atlassian suite, Jira Software, is a critical toolset used to achieve the initiative to move to an agile development/sustainment methodology and is the recommended framework in the National Defense Acquisition Act 2018 (NDAA) particularly as stated in section 884 of the Review and Alignment of the Defense Business Systems to Emphasize Agile Methods.

The Government’s minimum requirement is as follows:

1. Provide an industry standard platform that is used by leading agile software development organizations.

2. Provide core requirement planning, tracking, and execution platform.

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3. Provides collaborative environment wiki-style web based content management solution, which provides living technical documents that teams can utilize during each sprint. (Atlassian Confluence )

4. Provides a world leading Version Control system with branching workflow options built upon Git technology, which is a version control system for tracking changes in computer files to effectively manage large software development configuration changes. (Atlassian Confluence)

5. Provides a continuous delivery mechanism to Build, Test, and deploy software during the agile process. Atlassian Crucible provides the tools to find bugs and improve code quality through peer code review. (Atlassian Bamboo)

4. Authority: FAR 16.505(a)(4) Brand Name

5. Reasons for Authority Cited: Atlassian, 888 Broadway, 4th floor, New York, NY 10003 is the software publisher Atlassian software. The use of a brand name description in this acquisition is essential to the Government’s requirements, thereby precluding consideration of a product manufactured by another company.

Atlassian is the only software that meets all of the Government’s minimum requirements in paragraph #3 above. The Atlassian set of tools provide an industry standard platform that is used by leading agile software development organizations. Atlassian Jira will provide core requirement planning, tracking, and execution platform. Atlassian Bitbucket provides a world leading Version Control system with branching workflow options built upon Git technology, which is a version control system for tracking changes in computer files to effectively manage large software development configuration changes. Atlassian Bamboo provides a continuous delivery mechanism to build, test, and deploy software during the agile process. Atlassian Crucible provides the tools to find bugs and improve code quality through peer code review. The Atlassian tools are widely used by DOD components and has become a standard within Software Engineering Center.

Without adequate tools, more labor will be involved due to the repetitive nature of producing new builds for each of these systems, and the amount of coordination that will be needed to move through each sprint. Many of the functions needed in the framework would need to be managed manually. In order to minimize this cost, personnel would be dedicated to the managing the details to keep the framework operational. Failure to renew this software will also prevent engineers from getting the latest updates to the software for information assurance vulnerability alert (IAVA) compliance.

Alternatives: Alternatives that have been considered include GitLab, Workzone or Slack, and these are available from various vendors, however they all require significant effort to integrate. None of these alternatives provide the integration that the Atlassian tools currently provides. They do not meet the needs stated in paragraph 3, to include issue tracking, project and requirements planning, Service Desk support, Customer

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RightStar, Inc. W56JSR-19-P-0029 6/28/2019 Simplified Acquisition FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)

RightStar, Inc. W56JSR-18-P-0051 9/13/2018 Simplified Acquisition FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)

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9. Technical/Requirements Certification: I certify that the supporting data under my cognizance which are included in the justification are accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

10. Contracting Officer Certification/Approval: I hereby determine that the anticipated cost or price to the Government for this contract action will be fair and reasonable based upon competitive pricing submitted under open market conditions.

I certify that this justification is accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief, and that completing this brand-name purchase is in the best interest of the Government. Additionally, I approve this justification to limit competition subject to the availability of funds and provided that the services or supplies herein described have otherwise been authorized for acquisition.