Attachment 1 Sole Source ds.pdf

United States Department of Agriculture Limited Sources Justification

For an Order/BPA Exceeding Micro-Purchase Threshold & up to the Simplified Acquisition Threshold

FAR 8.405 Federal Supply Schedules Multiple Award Schedule Program

1. Identification of the agency and the contracting activity.

1a. Requesting Activity Agency: USDA-APHIS-PPQ 1b. Contracting Activity: USDA-APHIS-MRP-AAMD-AB

2. Description of supplies or services required to meet the agency’s needs (including estimate value).

Whooster.com provides a real-time, comprehensive investigative data solution enabling APHIS to obtain critical aggregated and correlated intelligence across people, phones, vehicles, properties, criminal records, businesses, and social media databases. Whooster also supports batch searches allowing hundreds or thousands of queries simultaneously. This subscription is essential to maintain mission critical investigative capabilities for identifying violators, supporting pathway analysis, and protecting U.S. agriculture and natural resources.

Subscription period: Base Year + 4 Option Years (5/03/2026 – 5/02/2031).

Total licenses: 11.

3. Identification of the authority for limiting sources.

The following circumstance justifies limiting the source under FAR 8.405-6:

FAR 8.405-6(a)(1)(i)(B) – Only one source is capable of providing the supplies or services requried at the level of quality required.

4. Supporting rationale demonstrating the unique qualifications of the proposed contractor or the nature of the action requiring the use of the authority.

Whooster is the sole proprietary provider. USDA has extensive acquisition history that includes prior renewals, user management, training, and technical support, establishing a proven track record of reliability and seamless integration with APHIS workflows. This enables users to perform data triangulation across multiple intelligence domains, supporting comprehensive background and pathway analysis needed to identify movement of regulated agricultural products into and throughout the continental U.S. and island states and territories. Whooster’s platform uniquely sorts, matches, and links multiple open-source databases to deliver the most comprehensive results available. This information is leveraged to identify potential violators, affiliations, or associations with known violators. Linking technology for subject-level comprehensive reports, such as phone information, history of property and residence ownership including occupancy details, does not exist with other options, is not the most current information, or is less capable than with Whooster’s platform. Whooster also provides information on U.S. businesses, including employee data, enabling efficient connection of investigative attributes and saving time in uncovering relationships. Whooster is the only provider offering combined access to:

Real‑time arrest feeds updated within minutes A 98+‑site social media sites intelligence graph and additional information such as connections and groups.

International phone & identity data across 150+ countries 1,700‑source+ criminal intelligence Integrated business, vehicle, aircraft, property, and corporate filing datasets Neighborhood Canvas shows mapped neighborhoods. Map display with ability to select homes behind subject or several blocks away

5. A description of the market research conducted among schedule holders and the results or a statement of the reason market research was not conducted.

Market research confirms that no other schedule holder provides datasets in a unified platform and batch search capability at national scale. Other vendors offer fragments of these capabilities, but no alternative offers the required breadth, timeliness, integration, or investigative depth.

6. Recommended source(s).

Whooster, Inc.

Certifications & Approval

Supporting data which form the basis for and included in this justification are certified accurate and complete.

Charles Citrone Supervisory PPQ Officer

The information contained in this Limited Sources Justification is certified accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Insert Name Contracting Officer