B and T Marketing JA (SPE8ED-20-Q-0730) Redacted (Final).pdf
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- SPE8ED-20-Q-0730
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This document includes a justification and approval for a sole source acquisition and the related federal contract opportunity solicitation. The justification and approval document describes market research conducted for an item designated as National Stock Number 8145-01-603-5483, which is identified as a Container Mobile Arms Room. According to the research summarized, while there are other storage container options commercially available, none were found to meet the required form, fit and function specifications besides the proposed sole source award to B and T Marketing. The related solicitation posted on SAM.gov seeks quotes for three of these Container Mobile Arms Rooms, with a delivery date of 120 days to Fort Riley, Kansas.
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The item is part numbered for which the Government does not possess complete Unrestricted Technical Data appropriate for the inclusion or reference in the acquisition process. According to the Product Item description (PID), the item lists two approved sources but market research determined
The required container is determined commercial. A majority of this item’s standard features are commercially available in custom industrial containers such as Climate Control Communications trailers, Mobile Container Offices, Industrial Tool Cribs, and other custom containers.
The market research from the containers division of C&E of DLA Troop Support revealed that even though there are other storage containers in the commercial market, none of them can be determined to have the aforementioned form, fit and function as the B and T Marketing Container.
6. The proposed acquisition will be published to Contract Opportunities (beta.SAM.Gov). In addition, this J&A will be posted with the solicitation in accordance with FAR 5.102(a)(6).
7. The Contracting Officer anticipates that at time of contract award, all costs to the Government will be fair and reasonable based on FAR 15.404-1(b)(2). Proposal Analysis Techniques for Price reasonableness will consist of other than cost or pricing data which includes, but is not limited to: comparison of proposed prices to prior prices determined to be fair and reasonable, comparison of prices for similar items determined to be fair and reasonable, evaluation of commercial catalogs/published price lists, or market prices of commercial items sold to the public.
8. Market research was conducted by an Acquisition Specialist via a Sources Sought Notice
(SSN). responded to the SSN, responded that they were interested in submitting an offer for this procurement but none provided a technical data package illustrating their capabilities to provide the requested item. Since the Government does not possess complete Unrestricted Technical Data it is essential that a contractor demonstrate their capability to perform on the contract.
However, have been added to the interested vendors list and an email notification will be sent once the solicitation is issued.
In addition, there are that had showed interest in submitting an offer for this item based on their response to a March 2017 SSN:
However, they did not respond to the most recent SSN and recent attempts to reach out to them directly yielded no response. The Container Team has continued to conduct market research via the Internet and meeting internally with their Product Specialist, Contracting Officers, Management and Staff Offices to obtain historical data, previous customer requirements, product development and product availability.
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