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Single Source Justification (Simplified Acquisition)

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Section A: General Contract Information

Contracting Activity: 341st Contracting Squadron

Project/Program Name: Consortium III

Purchase Request/Identification Number: UFR

Estimated Contract Cost (including Options):

Section B: Description of the Supplies/Services Required This acquisition is for upgrades of the Forum Communications Consortium II to a Consortium III. Adds NIPRNet/VoIP connectivity, replaces secondary crash and maintains all current conference bridge (46 simultaneous calls) and "blast notification dialer" functionality.

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

Forum Communications has complete ownership, to include the proprietary information involved in this requirement, of the current Consortium II. A bona fide need has been established for the upgrade to the Consortium III. If the Government went with another vendor other than Forum Communications an entire new emergency system, secondary crash, and traditional conference bridge will have to be replaced. Therefore, incurring substantial costs to the Government. Due to the proprietary information involved with this requirement and there being no reasonable expectation of realized savings to the Government through competition there is a reasonable basis to limit competition in order to fulfill the minimum specifications provided by the 341st CS, IAW FAR 6.302-1(b)(1)(i).

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

Until such a time the Consortium system is replaced with a different manufacturer no other manufactured service end-item will suffice for 341st CS emergency notification, secondary crash, and traditional conference bridge. In addition, until Forum Communications allows other vendors the access to their proprietary information this requirement will remain a single source.

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.

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