A03 SOWFY26.pdf

OFFICE OF THE CLERK

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE ARMED FORCES

450 E Street, N.W. Tel: (202)761-1466 Law Library Washington, D.C. 20442-0001 Fax: (202)761-7008

February 13, 2026

STATEMENT OF WORK

1.0 Background

USCAAF exercises worldwide appellate jurisdiction over members of the armed forces on active duty and other persons subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Cases on the Court’s docket address a broad range of legal issues, including constitutional law, criminal law, evidence, criminal procedure, ethics, administrative law, and national security law. The civilian Court oversees the military justice system to ensure that the military defendants have as much rights as allowed by the applicable federal statutes.

2.0 Scope

USCAAF requires access to comprehensive legal databases that provide current and past information/analyses on a wide-range of subjects, including case law, statutory law, constitutional law, criminal law, evidence, criminal procedure, ethics, administrative law, and national security law.

Research in the above topics will allow the Court’s federal judges and attorneys to make accurate interpretation of the statutes and regulations that will govern the decision of the cases before the Court.

3.0 Requirements

Subscription to a service that can provide sophisticated intuitive search mechanisms that can accurately retrieve hard-to-find information among the thousands of databases, some of which go as far back as the late 18th century. These requirements include:

• Comprehensive collection of Federal and state case law, federal and state statutes, court rules, regulations, attorney general opinions, administrative rulings

• unpublished decisions of the military Courts of Criminal Appeals

• case history and case law validation via Shepards’s Citation Service -- direct history prior and following cited case, including treatment analyses from all other federal and state cases and legal articles which have cited to the identified cited case

• comprehensive federal and state legislative materials and legislative histories dating back to 1776

• Matthew Bender legal treatises on constitutional, criminal, evidentiary, federal practice, and federal jury instruction laws

• law journals, newspapers, newsletters, magazines, trade journals, wire services and transcripts, world news, business analysis and country information, congressional tweets, legal blogs, and defense publications

• public records – names, addresses, telephone numbers, real estate assets, bankruptcy and judgment records, tax liens, criminal filings

• access to next-generation platform Lexis+ which uses AI to retrieve better/more relevant search results

• basic and specialized search features to retrieve information from a single or multiple databases, including document analysis via legal issue indexing and using similar citation or language pattern; code/regulation/court rule/legislation comparisons with prior versions for historical changes; practice areas guidance; visual research path/tree to see relevance of search terms

• Bluebook citation provided for quoted materials copied from database to user’s document

• notification of updated information based on queries created by users

• printing and download delivery options

• 24/7 technical support and reference service, on-site support and training

• Allows approximately 40 USCAAF users to access subscription contents

• generative AI platform for research and memo drafting

4.0 Additional Information

This is to renew contract HQ003421C0027, which included 4 option years. The period of performance for the new base year is 1 April 2026 – 31 March 2027. Option year one covers 1 April 2027 – 31 March 2028, option year two covers 1 April 2028 – 31 March 2029, option year three covers 1 April 2029 – 31 March 2030, and option year four covers 1 April 2030 – 31 March 2031.

5.0 Deliverables

Vendor shall provide subscription services for an unlimited number of users, personnel of the USCAAF, to have simultaneous access to all the services required in section 3.0, Requirements, throughout the period of performance. Vendor shall also provide continuous technical support for access to the subscribed services provided by the vendor. The subscribed services are the Requirements listed above, except for the generative AI platform which is an optional feature requiring additional funding. The period of performance is for a base year and 4 option years.

CLIN Item Quantity 0001 Lexis Online subscription -- base year 12

0002 Optional CLIN - add Protégé (AI) 12 1001 Lexis Online subscription - Option Year 1 12

1002 Optional CLIN - add Protégé (AI) 12 2001 Lexis Online subscription - Option Year 2 12

2002 Optional CLIN - add Protégé (AI) 12 3001 Lexis Online subscription - Option Year 3 12

3002 Optional CLIN - add Protégé (AI) 12 4001 Lexis Online subscription - Option Year 4 12

4002 Optional CLIN - add Protégé (AI) 12

6.0 Performance Management

All databases and services provided by the vendor will be managed by the vendor. USCAAF personnel shall inform the Contracting Officer’s Representative if any of the contracted services are not furnished as stipulated in the contract.