A12__Sole_Source_Under__250K_SIGNED_1.pdf

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ATTACHMENT 2

JUSTIFICATION & APPROVAL FOR OTHER THAN FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION for SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITIONS OVER THE MICROPURCHASE THRESHOLD (See FAR Part 2)

UP TO SAT

(See FAR 13.106-1)

Date:

PR Number:

1. Nature and/or description of the item/service being procured and its intended use (include the anticipated cost):

2. Sole Source Justification rationale (Check one and explain below):

Only one responsible source.

Urgent and compelling circumstances exist. Include critical delivery or performance dates, and when you became aware of the requirement. Provide a specific statement of the impact on Government operations, financial or otherwise, if the required delivery or performance dates are not met.

Other

Explain:

3. Market Research. Please explain the results or why one was not performed. State whether any other offers were received or anyone expressed interest:

Last updated 5/19/2022

ATTACHMENT 2

JUSTIFICATION & APPROVAL FOR OTHER THAN FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION for SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITIONS OVER THE MICROPURCHASE THRESHOLD (See FAR Part 2)

UP TO SAT

(See FAR 13.106-1)

PR Number

4. If this is a determination for sole source, the contracting officer certifies:

a. Only one source is available, or urgent and compelling circumstances exist.

b. The anticipated price will be determined fair and reasonable using the price analysis techniques described in FAR Part 13.106-3(a).

(Signature) (Date)

Type or Print Name:

Title:

(Signature) (Date) Type or Print Name:

Contracting Officer

Over $50,000:(if applicable)

(Date)(Signature)

Type or Print Name:

Warranted Individual 1 Level Above Contracting Officer

Search and Rescue. These vehicles will be equipped with, emergency lights and siren, radio, and decals. The company Emergency Vehicle Systems. based out of St. George, U.T. has provided an estimated quote to provide this service of $8060.00.

Text4: The Emergency Services Branch of Zion National Park performs all hazard services in a large western park with a high call volume. The division is staffed by 18 Law Enforcement Rangers and 4 Paramedic/Emergency Medical Technicians. The 4 Paramedic/EMT’s on staff are new positions as of 2022 and their primary job is responding to Emergency Medical Services and Search and Rescue incidents. These Emergency Medical Services(EMS) Employees have been critical to managing the VRP division incident workload due to the overwhelming increase in visitation (5 million per year). In 2022, ZION VRP responded to 390 EMS incidents.

These EMS employees’ primary vehicle is the park ambulance. The park ambulance is the only vehicle these EMS employees can legally and safely drive code (lights and sirens) to emergency medical incidents. If the park ambulance is assigned to an incident the remaining EMS employees do not have a vehicle they can drive lights and sirens to any subsequent incidents. It is very common for multiple EMS incidents to happen simultaneously and/ or the ambulance to be on a hospital transport, which is a 3 hour round trip. Agency policy prohibits these EMS employees from driving any of the marked Law Enforcement vehicles in our current fleet.

In Summer of 2022 the Zion Emergency Services branch submitted order for a pickup truck through GSA. This vehicle was purchased solely for these EMS employees and Search and Rescue team members for incident response. This vehicle didn’t arrive until May of 2023.

This newly purchased vehicle (2022 Nissan Frontier) is currently being utilized by EMS and Search and Rescue personnel to respond to emergency incidents but is not outfitted. The vehicle is not equipped with decals, reflective safety striping, emergency lights, and siren. Decals/striping for the vehicle and a radio have been purchased and needs to be professionally installed. It is mission critical/life safety for the EMS and Search and Rescue personnel to respond daily to emergency incidents in a timely manner which they cannot do until this vehicle is properly outfitted.

Emergency Vehicle Systems(EVS) is a professional emergency vehicle service based out of Saint George, Utah. They specialize in equipping emergency services vehicles for city, county, state and federal agencies. They have outfitted several Zion emergency vehicles in the past. Emergency Vehicle Systems(EVS) has shown to be consistent and professional producing high quality work. We recently have had several Law Enforcement vehicles and our park ambulance outfitted by Emergency Vehicle Systems(EVS) and have found them to be reliable, durable, well put together, with a quick turnaround.

In the past, many of our law Enforcement vehicles were outfitted at different locations by various vendors in Salt Lake City, UT (5 hours one way) or Las Vegas, NV (3 hours one way). In the past we were able to use these vendors for Law Enforcement Vehicle outfits and keep the operation running since we have numerous outfitted police vehicles. The issue for outfitting our EMS Response vehicle is that this is the only vehicle our 4 EMS personnel can drive other than the park ambulance. This vehicle can only be out of service for a short period of time or it greatly affects the ability of these non-law enforcement emergency service employees to respond to emergency incidents. The EMS personnel cannot legally drive any of the Law Enforcement vehicles by agency policy. Besides the 4 EMS employees we have numerous Search and Rescue personnel that utilize this vehicle. When this vehicle is out of service we have to borrow non-emergency service vehicles from other divisions.

The finite amount of staff in the Zion Emergency Services Division limits and delays the ability to shuttle vehicles regardless of distance of the vendor for vehicle outfits. If the vehicle was to be outfitted by a vendor in Salt Lake City, UT or Las Vegas, NV it will take two days of travel for drop off and pickup which adds a high expense of travel cost and time. Emergency Vehicle Systems(EVS) located only 45 minutes away allows for vehicle service to be started the day it is dropped off and allows the vehicle to be picked up at the same day the service is completed. The benefit of having a vendor less than an hour away keeps our emergency vehicles on the road with significantly less lost time for our staff, reduces travel cost, and reduces the time the vehicle is not in service for emergency response.

On completion of prior vehicle outfits from vendors located in Salt Lake City, UT and Las Vegas, NV staff have spent a day shuttling the vehicle back to Zion NP only to discover there is a service-related issue that would require the vehicle to be returned to the vendor. The logistics of coordinating to get the vehicle to the vendor with limited staffing can take typically 1-2 weeks and again include a whole day’s drive back and fourth for vehicle shuttle. On a few occasions the vendor from Salt Lake City, UT or Las Vegas, NV would travel to us but typically it would be a 1-2 week wait time to get the vehicle issue resolved and the vehicle has been out of service. On many occasions we have had the local vendor Emergency Vehicle Systems(EVS) fix the service issue of the prior vendor to reduce travel cost, lost time, and reducing the time the vehicle is out of service.

We have had vehicles outfits from Emergency Vehicle Systems(EVS) that required a return for service related issues. On many occasions we have been able to have the issue repaired the same day or the next day. This short turnaround has been mission critical for reducing lost time and travel cost for vehicle shuttle and reducing the time the emergency response vehicle is out of service.