DCS_Bridge_JA_2016-001_-_Redacted.pdf

CMO Control Number: 2016-001

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

JUSTIFICATION AND APPROVAL

FOR OTHER THAN FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION

1. Contracting Activity: Army Contracting Command-Warren (ACC-WRN)

2. Description of Action: ACC-WRN proposes to award a cost-plus-fixed-fee (CPFF), work-directive (WD) based modification to Contract W56HZV-11-C-0073 with DCS Corporation of Alexandria, Virginia. The modification would extend the ordering period by 15 months and increase the current labor hour amount by adding an additional 609,134 labor hours; and allow for associated increases in material and travel costs.

The current ordering period on the contract ends 31 December 2015. Extending the current ordering period through 31 March 2017 will provide both a continuity of service and a transition period for engineering services until the new TACOM Strategic Service Solutions (TS3) Knowledge Based Services (KBS) Task Order (TO) for TARDEC Technical Engineering Services is awarded. A combination of Operation and Maintenance, Army (OMA), Other Procurement, Army (OPA), Army Working Capital Funds (AWCF), and Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) funds may be used for this action, with a majority expected to be RDT&E funds.

3. Description of Supplies/Services: This proposed contract modification will provide continued direct technical support services to programs managed, integrated, engineered, and developed by the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) for Program Manager Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (PM MRAP); Project Director Main Battle Tank Systems (MBTS); PM Armored Fighting Vehicles (AFV); Abrams, Armored Knight, Bradley; PM Stryker; PM Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV); Program Executive Office Ground Combat Systems (PEO GCS); Program Executive Office Combat Support/Combat Service Support (PEO CS&CSS) and the TARDEC Dismounted Soldier Autonomy Tools (DSAT) program with the U.S. Special Operations Command (USASOC) both within the Continental United States (CONUS) and Outside the Continental United States

(OCONUS).

a. The technical support services to be performed will be specified on individually funded WDs and will provide critical ongoing development, engineering, and production efforts to support the Soldier. The estimated maximum CPFF value for the additional 609,134 man-hours is $63.35M plus the additional estimated $20.5M for supporting material and travel, for an estimated value of $83.85M. Funds are obligated only per individual WDs issued under the contract, and the requested increases to the contractual ceilings will provide for issuance of WDs between the modification issue date and 31 March 2017. The previously negotiated composite hourly labor rates were $98.48 for CY13, $100.99 for CY14 and $103.66 for CY15.

CY16 hours are not yet negotiated, but are anticipated to be approximately $104.00 per hour.

b. As of 28 September 2015, the current contract value is approximately $229.9M and the current total estimated value is $261.82M per Modification P00106 J&A approved on 7 January 2015. The total estimated modification value of the 15-month extension is $83.85M. The new total estimated value of the contract, inclusive of this proposed modification, is approximately $345.67M.

c. Types of services this contract provides include:

Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) enhancements to Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems

Program management support Systems Integration Lab (SIL) support Integration of Global Information Grid (GIG) and Net Ready Key Performance

Parameters (NR-KPP) into MRAP C4 systems Training and maintenance of pre-fielding and fielded systems, including development of training materials and technical manuals and conducting training for the Soldier on the new or upgraded systems

Continuing systems and software support for new MRAP C4 systems Support of critical Soldier machine interface technologies, hardware and software integration and prototype functions and configuration, and control of technology insertion programs for the key systems listed in Paragraph 3c below.

d. The anticipated award date of the TARDEC Engineering Services TO under the TS3

KBS contract is 31 August 2016, necessitating this extension. Extending this contract until 31 March 2017 will allow sufficient time for the new task order contract to be awarded competitively under the new TS3 KBS contract and for the new contractor to ramp up, as further detailed in item 5 below.

4. Authority Cited: The statutory authority permitting other than full and open competition is 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1) as implemented by Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.302-1 “Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy Agency Requirements.” Specifically, FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)(iii)(B) states services may be deemed to be available only from the original source in the case of follow-on contracts for the continued provision of highly specialized services when it is likely that award to any other source would result in “Unacceptable delays in fulfilling the agency’s requirements.”

5. Reason for Authority Cited:

a. The Government estimates that award to a new contractor would take a minimum of nine months for solicitation, negotiation, and award; plus up to an additional six months to fully integrate into the support positions before the contractor could provide the required services at the same performance level as the current contractor provides. In the aggregate, it would take approximately 15 months for another contractor to transition into the support services required. The current option ordering period is through 31 December 2015 and there are no other contract mechanisms currently in place to secure continuity of these critical engineering and technical services. This request for additional labor hours and supporting material and travel funding will allow uninterrupted provision of the essential support efforts summarized above to continue over the following 15 months through the revised option ordering period through 31 March 2017.

b. Any interruptions or delays to the below-mentioned programs (5d) this contract supports, would result in unacceptable delays in fulfilling the agency’s requirements, causing serious injury to the missions of the U.S. Army and the safety of the Soldiers. Most critically, a break in vital MRAP capability would result in upgrade maintenance and repair support to stop, thereby degrading the availability of vehicles. Without the required capabilities, the MRAP vehicles may be dead-lined for any mission and training requirements. The Soldiers rely on these MRAP vehicles to protect them from serious injury and loss of life. If the vehicles are dead-lined, they are no longer fully mission capable and are inoperable to the Soldier.

Furthermore, MRAP vehicles in Southwest Asia would be without experienced and qualified maintenance support, which would also put the Soldier’s safety at risk.

c. The contractor for this Technical Service contract modification will be continuing to develop specialized tools during the extension period to support the Lab Environments at TARDEC facilities. The uninterrupted continuation of these services is critical to the Army’s mission. Currently, DCS performs the technical service supporting the TARDEC, PEO, and PM programs under contract W56HZV- 11-C-0073. DCS has experienced personnel in place with expertise in the services described in section 3 for all variants of the MRAP. Therefore, DCS is solely qualified to provide continued services to the Government pending award of the competitive action without causing unacceptable delays.

d. The specific impact to the main programs and projects are cited in descending order of the degree of detrimental impact:

i. PM MRAP Support: DCS is currently managing, developing, modifying, and maintaining the MRAP Command, Control, Communications and Computing (C4) systems and capabilities required by the PM MRAP C4 Team. DCS is also currently providing management and engineering support to multiple critical projects for PM MRAP, including the MRAP Caiman Command and Control On The Move (C2OTM) upgrade to a Multi-Terrain Vehicle (MTV), MRAP Capability Set (CS) 13 Integration, and MRAP Integrated Bridge development. The results of these projects will be deployed to the field over the next year; each project has urgent milestones and schedules, and the timely fielding of each directly impacts the Soldiers in Afghanistan and Korea. DCS engineers are involved in significant aspects and key elements of these projects and are providing developmental support directly to the PM overseeing these efforts. Any delays to the vital MRAP capability would result in unacceptable delays in fulfilling the agency’s requirements, causing serious injury to the missions of the U.S. Army and the safety of the Soldiers. A break in service will cause upgrade maintenance and repair support to stop, thereby degrading the availability of vehicles. Such a break in service would require vehicles to be ‘deadlined’ (i.e. – rendered non-operational per requirements), while the warfighter mission needs would continue. This would require personnel normally mounted in MRAP variants in theater to perform their function using inferior methods causing degraded protection, potentially causing or exacerbating loss of life on the battlefield.

Subsequently, for stateside breaks in said service we would jeopardize the logistics path to replenishments as needed which would again impact the primary mission if stateside assets were required to move into theater. Without the required capabilities, the MRAP vehicles may be dead-lined for any mission and training requirements. The Soldiers rely on these MRAP vehicles to protect them from serious injury and loss of life. If the vehicles are dead-lined, they are no longer fully mission capable and are inoperable to the Soldier. Furthermore, MRAP vehicles in Southwest Asia would be without experienced and qualified maintenance support, which would also put the Soldier’s safety at risk. In summary, any delay is unacceptable if it can be avoided as the consequence is direct degraded protection to the warfighter.

ii. Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) Support: WIN-T is a critical part of the MRAP program that directly feeds the PM MRAP and PM WIN-T C4ISR requirements. DCS provides TARDEC with ongoing technical support in the integration, installation, documentation, maintenance, and fabrication of C4ISR systems on the many variants of MRAP vehicles. This function is vital in maintaining aggressive PM schedules and deliveries of vehicles for use in theater. DCS maintains and provides full documentation of engineering changes to systems and creates system drawings and installation and operations manuals necessary to provide the Soldier with the most current technology without the ability to use a finalized Technical Data Package (TDP) as a starting point. DCS also provides logistical support in procuring materials, fabrication of kits, and testing and installation of systems whenever and wherever needed to meet the PM MRAP and PM WIN-T C4ISR requirements. Any delays to the vital MRAP capability would result in unacceptable delays in fulfilling the agency’s requirements, causing serious injury to the missions of the U.S. Army and the safety of the Soldiers. A break in service will cause upgrade maintenance and repair support to stop, thereby degrading the availability of vehicles. Without the required capabilities, the MRAP vehicles may be dead-lined for any mission and training requirements. The Soldiers rely on these MRAP vehicles to protect them from serious injury and loss of life. If the vehicles are dead-lined, they are no longer fully mission capable and are inoperable to the Soldier. Furthermore, MRAP vehicles in Southwest Asia would be without experienced and qualified maintenance support, which would also put the Soldier’s’ safety at risk.

iii. Dismounted Soldier Autonomy Tools (DSAT) Support: DCS provides driving aid technologies to support augmented tele-operation and dynamic waypoint navigation, digital mapping, mission planning, peripheral integration, and scalable interfaces, all of which are integrated using multi-operating system and multi-graphics environments. DCS also provides expertise in the areas of Warfighter Machine Interface (WMI) porting to unique Android operating systems and the integration of software services via distributed data services middleware as well as unique and specialized experience with systems engineering and design for robotic systems and autonomy. Furthermore, due to DCS’s experience with, and knowledge of, the aforementioned technologies and systems engineering approach, the DSAT program is able to quickly develop systems engineering products such as the DSAT Performance Specification, System Segment Specification, System Segment Design Document, Software Requirements Specification, Interface Requirements Specification, and Software/System Test documents for WMI and vehicle software components. This aggressive schedule combined with the need to field a stabilized software baseline to soldiers in the field requires continued DCS support to ensure TARDEC Ground Vehicle Robotics (GVR) customer requirements are met in accordance with the aggressive schedule. A delay in the continuity of DCS support on these efforts will critically endanger the success of this mission. Essentially any delay in program schedule at this point will cascade delays into US Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) and the Australian Ministry of Defense cooperative program schedules. Impact would not only create delays and potentially cancellation of demonstrations due to range time scheduling, but would also effect international agreements between the US and Australian government partnership in this effort. Of note, DCS does not interact directly with the Australian DoD, but the effect would translate through.

iv. Core vehicle electronics science and technology development Support: DCS provides critical engineering support to TARDEC 6.2 and 6.3-funded Vehicle Electronics and Architecture (VEA) programs. A lapse or cessation of DCS support would result in unacceptable schedule slippages to these core efforts. In particular, design, development, integration, and test of vehicle power distribution networks and vehicle data networks would be affected, resulting in a one to two year slip to the completion dates for these efforts. PEO GCS is depending on these VEA science and technology programs to complete as soon as possible for inclusion in future ground combat vehicle modernization efforts. A delay in the continuity of DCS support on these efforts will endanger the success of this mission. Further, a stop in performance on this contract prior to the new instrument (KBS TS3 TO) being ready to take on the work will affect PEO and other TARDEC program schedules and potentially create a much larger fiscal burden to the Government.

6. Efforts to Obtain Competition: For this modification there will be no efforts to obtain competition due to the reasons stated above in section 5. A 15-month extension to this contract will provide sufficient time to procure the next competitive action to replace this contract.

a. Effective Competition: For the reasons cited in section 5, no effort has been made to obtain competition for this 15-month contract modification. A 15-month extension to this contract will provide sufficient time to procure the next competitive action to replace this contract. DCS is currently performing the requirements and is the only source with the requisite training, knowledge, experience, and information readily available to provide the technical support for the TARDEC services within the required timeframe. Therefore, only DCS will be solicited for this effort to prevent an unacceptable delay to the Government.

b. Subcontracting Competition: DCS shall submit a small business subcontracting plan in accordance with FAR 19.702(a)(1). The Procuring Contracting Officer (PCO) will evaluate and negotiate an acceptable subcontracting plan with DCS to ensure compliance with small business goals. The PCO will obtain an assessment of the contractor’s subcontracting plan from the Office of Small Business Programs (OSBP) and the Small Business Administration (SBA) in accordance with FAR 19.705-4(d)(7) to assist in determining acceptance of DCS’s subcontracting plan. FAR Clause 52.219-9, Small Business Subcontracting Plan--Alternate II, and DFARS Clause 252.219-7003, Small Business Subcontracting Plan (DoD Contracts), will be incorporated into the contract.

7. Actions to Increase Competition: A new TS3 KBS Task Order is expected to be awarded by 31 August 2016 to replace the current contract upon its expiration.

Extending the ordering period through March 2017 will allow enough time for the new Task Order to be competed and awarded, thus providing continuity of coverage for TARDEC and the various program and project offices it supports. Further, a minimum of six month overlap is needed between the current contract and the follow-on contract, which will allow a potential new contractor sufficient time to seamlessly transition the efforts performed.

8. Market Research:

a. On 03 June 2015 and 12 August 2015, market research was conducted in the form of a request for information (RFI) sent to all 27 TS3 KBS IDIQ holders (17 large business and 10 small businesses). The RFI sent on 03 June 2015 resulted in 11 responses and the RFI sent on 12 August 2015 resulted in 7 responses. Between the two rounds of engagement with industry a total of 12 different contractors have shown interest in the follow-on contract requirement.

b. Based upon the market research a follow-on competitive contract will be pursued. Until such time the competitive action can be awarded the most effective strategy is an award to DCS is the most efficient and timely solution.

DCS possesses the expertise and infrastructure already in place to perform this requirement during this period of performance without causing a break in service.

Additionally, a competitive TS3 TO award requires a minimum six months overlap, after receiving a legally approved requirements package, to solicit competition, evaluate technical and pricing data, and make an award to allow for seamless transition of the technical service efforts.

9. Interested Sources: To date, the TS3 KBS suite contractors have expressed interest. The TS3 KBS suite contractors are the following: BAE Systems Land & Armaments L.P, Baum Romstedt Technology Research Corp, Booz Allen Hamilton, Calibre Systems, Camber Corporation, D&S Consultant, DCS Corporation, Honeywell Technology Solutions, International Business Machines Corporation, Jacobs Technology, Mantech Advanced Systems International, PD Systems, Science Applied International Corporation, Strategic Resources, URS Federal Services, Vencore Services and Solutions, Wyle Laboratories, Accent Controls, C2D Joint Venture, DS3 Solutions, DUCOM, FedITC, Middle Bay Solutions, Northwind-Jacobs Joint Venture, Tec-Masters, United Support Services, and WS3.

10. Other Facts:

Procurement History: The following contracts were awarded to DCS on a competitive basis.

Contract W56HZV-11-C-0073 was awarded on 29 December 2010. Modification

P00106 extended the period of performance to the current contract expiration date of 31 December 2015. A J&A was approved for the extension on 7 January 2015 under the authority of FAR 6.302-1 – Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy Agency Requirements.

Contract W56HZV-04-C-0745 was awarded on 17 September 2004. At completion, the value of the contract was $153,444,985 for 1,414,189 man-hours.

Contract DAAE07-00-C-L034 was awarded on 30 May 2000. At completion, the value of the contract was $29,372,865 for 343,091 man-hours.

Contract DAAE07-95-C-X088 was awarded on 26 September 1995. At completion, the value of the contract was $20,034,580 for 299,472 hours of effort.

Contract DAAE07-91-C-R078 was awarded on 27 September 1991. At completion, the value of the contract was $7,957,397 with 138,087 hours exercised.

11. Technical Certification:

I certify the supporting data under my cognizance, which are included in the justification, are accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Typed Name: DR. JENNIFER HITCHCOCK, SES Date: 15 SEP 2015 Title: Executive Director, Research & Technology Signature:

Integration, U.S. Army TARDEC

12. Requirements Certification:

I certify the supporting data under my cognizance, which are included in the justification, are accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

See Signed pdf copy titled “Dr.

Jennifer Hitchcock Signed Bridge Acq Plan & J&A”

Typed Name: DR. JENNIFER HITCHCOCK, SES Date: 15 SEP 2015 Title: Executive Director, Research & Technology Signature:

Integration, U.S. Army TARDEC

13. Fair and Reasonable Cost Determination: I hereby determine the anticipated cost to the Government for this contract action will be fair and reasonable. The contractor’s proposal will be reviewed using a cost analysis, in accordance with FAR 15.404-1(a), to discern whether the costs proposed are current and justifiable. The contractor’s proposal will also be reviewed by Government requirements personnel who will address the appropriateness of the proposed labor categories, material, travel, and other cost elements as requested by the Contracting Officer. The final negotiated agreement will consider all contractual requirements to support a determination of a fair and reasonable cost for this effort. The contractor will be required to submit certified cost and pricing data only if the proposed composite hourly rates differ from those currently on contract.

Typed Name: RYAN W. STACEY Date: 17SEP15 Title: Contracting Officer Signature:

14. Contracting Officer Certification: I certify that this justification is accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Typed Name: RYAN W. STACEY Date: 17SEP15 Title: Contracting Officer Signature:

See Signed pdf copy titled “Dr.

Jennifer Hitchcock Signed Bridge Acq Plan & J&A”

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APPROVAL

Based on the foregoing justification and as the Principal Assistant Responsible for Contracting, pursuant to Army Materiel Command (AMC) Head of the Contracting Activity (HCA) Delegation of Authority (DOA) 15-19, I hereby approve the issuance of a modification to contract W56HZV-11-C-0073 to provide for up to 609,134 man-hours of additional technical support services for the TARDEC Software Engineering Center (SEC), Ground Vehicle Robotics (GVR) group, Vehicle Electronics and Architecture (VEA) group, and Center for System Integration (CSI) and associated material and travel costs, for a total estimated value of $83.85M. This approval is pursuant to the authority of 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1) as implemented by FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)(iii) and subject to availability of funds, and provided that the services and property herein described have otherwise been authorized for acquisition.

2 Nov 2015

DATE KRISTAN A. MENDOZA

Principal Assistant Responsible for Contracting