Executive Order 14271 Ensuring Commercial, Cost-Effective Solutions in Federal Contracts.

There are no suitable “required use” contracts which meet the Government’s need IAW RFO FAR 8.104(a)(2).

Although certain components of the requirement may be available through multiple GSA contractors, market research determined that no other contractor can provide the fully integrated hardware to software ecosystem required to support the Government’s operational, cybersecurity evidence management, interoperability, and chain-of-custody requirements without substantial duplication of cost and unacceptable operational disruption.

Axon Enterprise has demonstrated a full understanding of the Office of Public Trust’s need for a secure, scalable and integrated ecosystem that can support Federal law enforcement operations across diverse jurisdictions and mission environments. Axon has a single, unified platform that enables the management of evidence from capture through case resolution. Axon Evidence is delivered as a FedRAMP High authorized, cloud-native Software as a Service (SaaS) platform hosted within Microsoft Azure Government infrastructure. This method applies layered security controls across data ingestion, storage, access and sharing. Axon Evidence has encryption in transit and at rest using CJIS and NIST aligned standards. Axon Evidence supports multiple ingestions methods such as Body Worn Cameras and TASER energy weapons. Axon demonstrated capabilities such as evidence management, redaction features, auto-transcribe, search abilities, and evidence sharing. Axon demonstrated capabilities in audit trails, evidence tracking, agency settings, user settings, device settings, data security and access controls. A review of Axon’s capability statement for the Digital Evidence Management System (DEMS) depicted it meets the Government’s requirements. Axon’s capability statement provided a detailed explanation of its Axon Body Solution which provides a ruggedized Body Worn Camera (BWC) with integrated LTE, Wi-Fi, and GPS connectivity. The capability statement listed the features of the Axon BWCs, and this hardware and software ecosystem integration meets the Government’s requirements. The capability statement listed the features of the TASER, and this hardware and software ecosystem integration meets the Government’s requirements.

Market research determined that Axon Enterprise is the only vendor identified that can provide a fully integrated body worn camera, conducted energy weapon, and digital evidence management ecosystem meeting the Government’s interoperability, cybersecurity, evidentiary integrity, operational continuity, and FedRAMP high requirement. The Office of Public Trust requires body worn cameras from a single, unified and fully integrated hardware to system solution from a single manufacturer to support the law enforcement and public safety mission. The fundamental purpose of this system is to reliably capture, manage, and secure digital evidence in a manner that ensures its integrity, preserves the chain of custody, and guarantees its admissibility in judicial, civil and administrative proceedings. A multi-vendor approach introduces unacceptable risks related to system integration, data security and operational reliability. The Government currently utilizes Axon-based operational workflows and evidence management processes. Transition to a non-compatible solution would require significant retraining, migration of operational procedures, modification of evidence workflows, increased cybersecurity assessment activities, and potential disruption to ongoing law enforcement operations.

The results of the capability determination have demonstrated that Axon Enterprise is the only vendor who is capable to fulfill our needs for a hardware to software ecosystem solution which is FedRAMP High compliant to support law enforcement operations.

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