Attachment 1 - Sole Source Brand Name Justification for Simplified Acquisitions_Redacted.pdf

Sole Source Justification (SSJ) For Simplified Acquisitions (over $10,000 and up to $250,000) pursuant to FAR 13.106, including Brand

Name

Sole Source Justification for Simplified Acquisitions (over $10,000 up to $250,000) Template which is wholly cost prohibitive to the Government.

CDP presently owns and has implemented into training hundreds of 3M Scott NIOSH CBRN-approved SCBA. Repairs and maintenance will ultimately be conducted on the CDP campus through utilization of 3M Scott equipment and CDP contracted support staff trained by 3M Scott technicians. A reliance on 3M Scott to conduct cleaning, maintenance and reconstitution after decontamination will be high in cost if not altogether cost prohibitive. This would be the case if CDP were to purchase competing brands of SCBA; of course, CDP would also be required to procure the competing brand of cleaning and maintenance equipment for that SCBA.

Procuring and implementing competing brands at this juncture will entail a wholesale replacement of 3M Scott respiratory protection equipment already implemented in unique fashion throughout technician-level training. Since 2015, CDP has purchased and implemented into training hundreds of 3M Scott SCBA with a value over $450,000.00.

Because of associated risks and certainty of cost duplication to the Government, a brand name acquisition represents the best value consistent with FAR 8.404(d).

Utilization of alternative sources will require the Government to procure hundreds of NIOSH CBRN-approved SCBA with accompanying equipment, retrain instructor and training support staff, develop alternate protocols and usage procedures and then rewrite curriculums associated with the training. Following this action, the Government will nonetheless remain burdened with the necessity of replacing and/or supplementing this respiratory equipment through the lifecycle replacement processes. Such cost prohibitive options are neither fiscally prudent nor economically reasoned. As regards the subject requirement, the Program Office asserts that utilization of alternative sources is wholly cost prohibitive.

3. The anticipated price will be determined fair and reasonable based on one or more of the price analysis techniques described below in accordance with FAR Part 13.106-3(a)(2). (Check one and provide short explanation and description of action taken):

_________ Market Research.

_________ Comparison of the proposed price with prices found reasonable on previous purchases.

_________ Current price List.

_________ Comparison with similar items in a related industry.

_________ Comparison to IGCE.

_________ Contracting Officer’s personal knowledge.

____X____ Other - Price reasonableness determination based on competitive quotations or offers in accordance with FAR 13.106-3(a)(1).

DHS/FEMA will post this requirement on the Government Point of Entry at www.SAM.gov and anticipates receiving multiple quotes in response to the Request for Quote (RFQ).

Sole Source Justification (SSJ) For Simplified Acquisitions (over $10,000 and up to $250,000) pursuant to FAR 13.106, including Brand

Name

Sole Source Justification for Simplified Acquisitions (over $10,000 up to $250,000) Template

4. Approval:

Technical Representative/COR Date

Contracting Officer Date