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Contractor: Sherpa 6

Program/Equipment: DSAAT

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JUSTIFICATION REVIEW DOCUMENT

FAR PART 6 JUSTIFICATION AND APPROVAL FOR OTHER THAN

FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION

Program/Equipment: Engineering services are required to provide the Government teams (Combat Capabilities Development Command Soldier Center (CCDC SC), Nett Warrior (NW) and Integrated Virtual Augmentation System (IVAS) teams) Digital Situational Awareness (DSA) data analytic development, DSA integration products, and DSA training documents and operations support.

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 657f, as implemented by FAR 6.302-5(b)(6)

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Contracting Officer: Mr. Shawn Haubner DSN: (508) 206-2067 APG/NCD Contracting Officer Date: 04 Dec 2019 Email: shawn.p.haubner.civ@mail.mil

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Reviews: I have reviewed this justification and find it adequate to support other than full and open competition.

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FAR Part 6 Justification and Approval for Other than Full and Open Competition

1. Contracting Activity: Army Contracting Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Natick Contracting Division, General Greene Avenue, Bldg 1, Natick, MA 01760

2. Description of Action: The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command - Soldier Center (CCDC-SC), Mission Information Team, FCDD-SCO-MM, requests a Cost Plus Fixed Fee, new contract with Sherpa 6, located at 10822 W Toller Dr Ste 180, Littleton, CO 80127. The Government projects a award to this Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) for December 2019.

Fiscal year 2019 funds type of RDT&E will be used. Ceiling is

The required acquisition plan in accordance with DFARS 207.103(d)(i)(B) is currently awaiting Chief of Contracting approval.

3. Description of Supplies/Services: As indicated in the Performance Work Statement, engineering services are required to provide the Government teams (CCDC SC, NW and IVAS) DSA data analytic development, DSA integration products, and DSA training documents and operations support. The Digital Situational Awareness Assessment and Training (DSAAT) products will integrate into existing Army efforts to include NW, Tactical Assault Kit (TAK), and IVAS. DSAAT technical capabilities will increase technical capabilities of dismounted mission command information portrayal, data analytics, Soldier Performance Metrics (SPM), Adaptive Soldier Architecture (ASA), Integrated Virtual Augmentation System - Tactical Integration Center (IVAS-TIC), and Tactical Radio (TR). The technical capabilities will address the entirety of dismounted Soldier operations to include training, planning, rehearsal, movement, operations and after action reviews (AAR).

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4. Authority Cited: 15 U.S.C. 657f, as implemented by FAR 6.302-5(b)(6)

5. Reason for Authority Cited: The requirement will be awarded under the authority of FAR 6.302-5(b)(6) Sole Source awards under the Veterans Benefits Act of 2003, 15 USC 657f. Sherpa 6 meets the FAR requirements for a sole source award outlined under FAR 19.1406. Sherpa 6 has been determined to be a responsible contractor. The work is not currently being performed under the Small Business 8a Program. The contracting officer verified that Sherpa 6 is an SDVOSB under the NAICS code 541512 Computer Systems Design Services. The Government has no reasonable expectation that two or more capable offers would be received from SDVOSB concerns based on market research. An RFI for this DSAAT effort was released onto FedBizOps on 29 March 2019 and closed 29 April 2019. Based upon this, the market research, which

Program/Equipment: DSAAT

Version – September 2018 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY included both Request For Information and expert knowledge of companies within domain experience in the DSAAT area, identified only two companies that possess the domain experience required across the integrated technical area of data analytic information portrayal, Squad Performance metrics, dismounted Soldier tactical radio, and digital Situational Awareness (SA) training. Of the two companies, one was a large traditional business and the other, Sherpa 6, is a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB). Please see paragraph 8 for additional details on market research.

The requirement cannot be satisfied through the Federal Prison industries or an Ability One participating non-profit agency for the blind or severely disabled.

6. Efforts to Obtain Competition: The Contracting Officer published sources sought notice W911QY19RDSAAT to the Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) website on 29 March 2019. Additionally, in accordance with FAR 5.201, this requirement was synopsized through the Federal Business Opportunities website on 30 August 2019. No responses were received from other SDVOSB companies.

a. Effective Competition: Since this is a sole source action under FAR 6.302-5(b)(6), effective competition is not applicable.

b. Subcontracting Competition: No subcontracting is anticipated.

7. Actions to Increase Competition: The follow on to this requirement will be competed to the maximum extent practicable. The requirement was synopsized in accordance with the requirements of FAR 5.202. On 30 August 2019, intent to sole source notice W911QY-19-R-0051 was posted to the Federal Business Opportunities website.

Breaking the requirement out in the effort to increase competition was considered, however, continuity and consistency is of the utmost importance for contract performance. Based on this, the requirement will be sole source to one vendor under FAR 6.302-5(b)(6).

8. Market Research: Market research was conducted in accordance with FAR Part 10.

On 29 March 2019, Sources Sought notice W911QYRDSAAT was posted to the Federal Business Opportunities Website (FBO.org) along with a draft Performance Work Statement (PWS).Responses were received from eight (8) companies, consisting of 4 large businesses and 4 small business. Of these companies, Sherpa 6 which is a SDVOSB, was the only small business capable of designing and developing the required technologies. There was a large business capable of the requirement. The remaining six

(6) responding companies did not have the required capabilities to perform the effort.

The requiring activity evaluated each capability statement against the draft PWS. Details are provided below:

Sherpa 6: Preliminary technical information submitted by Sherpa 6 in response to the DSAAT FedBizOps RFI notice has been reviewed by the requiring activity who have advised that Sherpa 6 does appear to meet the capabilities requested in the RFI.

Sherpa 6’s experience in Squad Performance Metrics was strong, Sherpa 6 has experience with IVAS squad performance modeling. Also, Sherpa 6’s experience was strong for the digital SA training for dismounted augmented reality (AR) applications as

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Sherpa 6 has been involved with IVAS AR and SA training experience. Sherpa 6’s experience in Tactical Radio integration was strong as Sherpa 6 was the driving force behind the revolution of dismounted Soldier tactical radios into the Integrated Tactical Network. Similarly, Sherpa 6’s experience was strong for the information portrayal of dismounted Soldier data analytic information as Sherpa 6 had both information portrayal and information portrayal experience in both dismounted Soldier information portrayal and dismounted Soldier data analytic information.

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Approval Based on the foregoing justification, I hereby approve the procurement of engineering services for DSAAT for the estimated amount of on an other than full and open competition basis pursuant to the authority of 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(5), subject to availability of funds, and provided that the services or property herein described have otherwise been authorized for acquisition.

Command Advocate for Competition

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