A16_JOFOC_1.pdf

United States Department of the Interior

BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT

https://www.blm.gov

SOLE SOURCE (INCLUDING BRAND NAME) JUSTIFICATION AND APPROVAL

FOR ACQUISITIONS UNDER THE SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION PROCEDURES

This document sets forth the justification and approval as required by 13.106-1(b)(1) &(2).

1. Contracting agency and activity.

The Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Bureau of Land Management/Alaska Fire Service/Galena, requests the Bureau of Land Management/Alaska Fire Service/Procurement, to contract on a sole source basis.

2. Nature and/or description of action being approved.

Barge service for the shipment of fire related freight and sundries to Galena AFS from Nenana and returning to Nenana with fire related freight and sundries for BLM-AK/Alaska Fire Service.

Description of supplies or services.

The Galena Zone operates a remote field station in Galena during the fire season. Facilities at the Galena field station include a dispatch center, housing and dining facilities, a maintenance shop, and a warehouse. Internal and external assignment and movement of all resources, both tactical and logistical, occur out of the remote field station. Additionally, the outstation serves as a aircraft refueling hub for fire suppression operations in western Alaska. Galena, AK is not road accessible, and supplies must be forwarded to the Galena field station through barge or air transportation. There are some freight items, such as vehicles, that can only be provided through barge transportation.

Estimated dollar value.

$250,000 total estimated dollar value for 5-year blanket purchase agreement.

3. Statutory authority.

__X__41 U.S.C. 1901 – Simplified acquisition procedures (use when the simplified procedures for purchases of property and services for amounts (1) not greater than the simplified acquisition threshold

____41 U.S.C 1903 – Special emergency procurement authority (applies when in support of a contingency operation as defined in section 101(a) of title 10 or to facilitate the defense against or recovery from nuclear, biological, chemical, or radiological attack against the United States).

4. Rationale supporting use of the authority stated in paragraph 5.

There is only one vendor, Ruby Marine Inc., that is located in the Fairbanks North Star Borough that has the facilities to drop off fire related freight and sundries and provides barge service to Galena, AK.

5. Other information.

This is a critical requirement to get freight, especially freight that will not fit on agency aircraft, to the Galena field station.

6. The efforts to identify additional sources including the market research conducted.

Market research was conducted, and only one vendor, Ruby Marine Inc. was identified.

7. Future plans to permit competition.

Market Research will continue to be conducted in order to see if new vendors enter the market that are in the location that can provide the services.

8. The ordering activity Contracting Officer’s certification that the justification is accurate and complete to the best of the Contracting Officer’s knowledge and belief and evidence that the supporting data that form a basis for the justification have been certified as complete and accurate by technical/program personnel.

I certify that the facts and representations under my cognizance, which are included in this justification and which form a basis for this justification, are complete and accurate.

(Signature)_____________________________________ (Date) _______________________

(Type or Print Name): ___________________________________________________________ Contracting Officer’s Representative

9. I certify that the justification is accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief:

(Signature) _______________________________________ (Date) _6/5/2023___________

(Type or Print Name): _Mariah Schumacher___________________________________ Contracting Officer

JACOB

LIVINGSTON

Digitally signed by JACOB

LIVINGSTON

Date: 2023.04.28 15:18:48 -08'00'