A02 - FAR Parts 6 and 13.5 J and A Redacted_Redacted.pdf

Supply/Service: End-to-End Process Mapping Supply Chain Optimization Support

4. Authority Cited: 10 U.S.C. 3204(a)(1), as implemented by Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.302-1, Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements.

5. Reason for Authority Cited: As described at FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)(iii)(B), for DoD, NASA, and the Coast Guard, services may be deemed to be available only from the original source in the case of follow-on contracts for the continued provision of highly specialized services when it is likely that award to any other source would result in unacceptable delays in fulfilling the agency’s requirements.

has supported the standardized SCO operating model for AMC SCMD and the LCMC supply chain organizations since January 2023. As such, is the technical expert on all aspects of the standardized SCO operating model, business processes and rules, and governance processes. Additionally, has deep technical expertise in all SCO related supply chain analytics tools and has provided thousands of person-hours of training to AMC and LCMC employees on all aspects of managing the Army supply chain through SCO.

In order to limit the need, frequency, and/or scope of future contractor support for SCO, it is essential to AMC that SCMD employees develop and sustain the required capabilities to manage and execute effective supply chain management through the standardized SCO operating model. The SCO operating model is a significant change to the current business processes requiring significant training to ensure an individual’s success and the success of the AMC mission. Since AMC SCMD only began transitioning to the SCO operating model in May 2024, Government employees have had limited time to develop the required expertise and capabilities. Additionally, to compound the difficulty of the transition, AMC SCMD continues to experience significant personnel turnover as the result of the drawdown, which has slowed the completion of the SCO implementation by 6 to 10 months. Therefore, to successfully complete the SCO transformation, AMC requires additional contractor support.

Given the short amount of time left to complete the SCO transformation, , as the current contractor, is the only source available that can meet the requirement without an unacceptable delay. Utilizing a different contractor to adapt its supply chain management principles and processes to AMC, vice continuing to implement the SCO operating model, would undermine the progress AMC and the LCMCs have made with implementing SCO to date, and would require an additional multi-year effort to get back to the same level of capabilities the organizations have developed today. Based on historical procurement administrative lead time, ACC-RI estimates that it would take 8 to 12 months to solicit, evaluate, and award if the requirement was competed. Additionally, based on the level of complexity, detail and integration across the commands that has already occurred, AMC HQ estimates that it would take another contractor at least 6 to 10 months after award to develop the knowledge required of the SCO processes, business rules, analytics, tools and associated supply chain management practices to

Supply/Service: End-to-End Process Mapping Supply Chain Optimization Support support AMC SCMD and LCMC SCO transformation. This timeline is unacceptable as the SCO transformation would be complete by the time it would take to award and transition to another contractor. For these reasons, is the only contractor that can provide the SCO support without an unacceptable delay.

Failure to award the SCO support to would cause unnecessary and catastrophic interruptions to the overall supply chain management improvement within the AMC SCMD. This would adversely impact AMC SCMD and the LCMC’s capabilities to effectively manage the Army supply chain and undermine the readiness of Army units resulting in decreased effectiveness, increased cost, and risk the ability of the Army to execute its global missions.

6. Efforts to Obtain Competition: The Contracting Officer shall publish the notices required by FAR 5.201. Because this is sole source, effective competition is not applicable. There are no subcontracting opportunities associated with this requirement for competition.

7. Actions to Increase Competition: ACC-RI currently does not anticipate a need for a follow-on contract award, but if a need arises, it intends to compete the follow-on procurement. If a follow-on contract is needed, ACC-RI will conduct market research and plan its acquisition strategy per the results of the Sources Sought notice and its analysis.

8. Market Research: ACC-RI published a Sources Sought notice on the System for Award Management portal at https://www.sam.gov from 12-19 March 2025. The notice published the Scope of Objectives (SOO) associated with the SCO support. Interested parties were requested to submit a capabilities statement indicating how it can meet the SOO requirements. Capability statements were submitted by three companies:

. AMC HQ performed an assessment of the capability statements. Based on this assessment, all three companies appear to have the foundational qualifications and resources to perform the work associated with SCO support; however, it would likely take these companies approximately 6 to 10 months to become fully productive based on the time needed to adapt to contract-specific requirements and for personnel to achieve the expected levels of efficiency and integration into the workflow.

The customer also determined that while many companies offer business consulting services for supply chain management processes, none (other than offer expertise in the standardized SCO supply chain management positions, processes, business rules, governance and advanced analytics tools.

Based on this market research, it was determined only can provide the SCO support without unacceptable delays as described in paragraph 5. For these reasons, no other company other than can support this requirement.