B12_Attachment_1_Redacted_Sole_source_2.pdf

Requisition # 0040614244

SOLE SOURCE JUSTIFICATION AND APPROVAL FOR ACQUISITION UNDER

THE SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION THRESHOLD

1. Contracting Agency and Activity. The Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, plans to contract on a sole source basis. This document sets forth the justification and approval as required by FAR 13.106-1(b)(1).

2. Nature of Action Being Approved. The USGS Pennsylvania Water Science Center requests a new firm-fixed price purchase order to SGS North America, Inc. Submitting analytical samples to SGS North America, Inc. laboratory located in Orlando, Florida. Period of performance is 05/15/2023 – 05/14/2024.

3. Description of Supplies or Services. The SGS North America, Inc. laboratory will supply the necessary bottles upon request and analyze the water and soil samples for specific analytes.

Results will be delivered to the Pennsylvania Water Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, new Cumberland, Pennsylvania in hard copy (PDF format) and electronically along with the associated internal quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) results. QA/QC results will only be provided in the hard copy deliverable.

4. Estimated Dollar Value.

5. Statutory Authority. The proposed action may be awarded on a sole source basis under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b)(1) – only one source reasonably available.

6. Rationale Supporting Use of Citation in No. 5. The Pennsylvania Water Science Center (PWSC) has been conducting a study at the Open Burning / Open detonation area and Flashing Furnace facility at Letterkenny Army Depot since 2018. The primary laboratory that has conducted the analytical analyses for the project since 2018 has been the SGS North America, Inc. in Orlando, Florida. The current analytical results need to be compared to results from previous years, it is imperative that analytical analyses be conducted by SGS North America, Inc.

laboratory to preserve the continuity of data, and the data be reported directly to the PWSC. If Pennsylvania Water Science Center were to change labs five years’ worth of data would be lost because the chemical characteristics could change from the site or switching labs. If another lab was chosen to conduct the analytical analyses USGS would lose annually with duplication of costs and efforts. The costs were derived from past history of five years working with SGS North America, Inc. This laboratory meets all the project requirements for reporting detection levels for the analytes required by the project workplan for environmental monitoring in the vicinity of the ARMD facility developed by LEAD in coordination with the Pennsylvania of Environmental Protection.

SGS North America, Inc. has been providing electronic data files that are partially formatted for input into the National Water Inventory System (NWIS). This is another reason why it is critical to use this laboratory to conduct the analyses.

7. Other Information. N/A

8. The Efforts to Identify Additional Sources Including the Market Research Conducted.

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