Tab3-Single_source_justification_Redacted.pdf

Single Source Justification (Simplified Acquisition)

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Section A: General Contract Information

Contracting Activity: 341 CONS

Project/Program Name: High-Cut Helmets

Purchase Request/Identification Number: F2W6A18190AW01

Estimated Contract Cost (including Options):

Section B: Description of the Supplies/Services Required

Purchase 66 Team Wendy Exfil high cut helmets, in Coyote Brown, per the Air Force Security Forces Command (AFSFC) standardization letter dated 2 May 2018. Specific part number to be acquired is 73-31S-E31. Specific sizes are 35 each for Medium-Large and 31 each for Extra-Large.

Section C: Justification for Soliciting from a Single Source or Brand Name

10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1), the supplies or services needed by the agency are available from only one responsible source or from a limited number of responsible sources and no other type of supplies or services will satisfy the needs of the agency, as implemented by Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.302-1(a)(2), Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy Agency Requirements, required by FAR 6.303-2(b)(4).

(2) When the supplies or services required by the agency are available from only one responsible source, or, for DoD, NASA, and the Coast Guard, from only one or a limited number of responsible sources, and no other type of supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements, full and open competition need not be provided for.

(b) Application. This authority shall be used, if appropriate, in preference to the authority in 6.302-7; it shall not be used when any of the other circumstances is applicable. Use of this authority may be appropriate in the following situation:

(1) When there is a reasonable basis to conclude that the agency's minimum needs can only be satisfied by--

(ii) For DoD, NASA, and the Coast Guard, unique supplies or services available from only one or a limited number of sources or from only one or a limited number of suppliers with unique capabilities.

Section D: Efforts to Obtain Competition

Due to equipment standardization from AFSFC, competition is only available to those offerors that provide the required item for this acquisition.

Section E: Steps to Preclude Future Single Source or Brand Name Awards

Until such time that standardized safety/field gear is either revised or rescinded from the Team Wendy Exfil high cut helmet requirement, no other manufactured end-item will suffice for uniformed security forces personnel as mandated by AFSFC.

Single Source Justification (Simplified Acquisition)

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Section F: Contracting Officer's Determination

I have determined, in accordance with FAR 13.106-1(b)(1), that the circumstances of this contract action deem only a single source is reasonably available.

Date

06-Aug-2018

Typed Name and Rank/Grade of Contracting Officer

Charles M. Weibel/GS-13

Signature of Contracting Officer

WEIBEL.CHARLES.M.10956972

Digitally signed by

WEIBEL.CHARLES.M.1095697247