Attachment_1_Brand_Name_JNA.pdf

FA8751-19-Q-0411

Attachment #1

BRAND NAME JUSTIFICATION AND APPROVAL

Contracting Activity: Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, AFRL – Rome Research Site

AFRL/RIKO

26 Electronic Parkway Rome, NY, 13441-4514.

Purchase Request/Local Identification Number: FA8751-19-Q-0411 Program Name (and Program Element, if applicable): Rohde & Schwarz Integrated Signal Generator Estimated Cost/Price of the Order (including options):

Type Program: Other Contracting Authority: 10 USC 2304(c)(1) Type Determination: Individual Approving Authorities:

Program Manager: _ _______________11 July 2019_ Date Signed

Local Small Business Office: See DD Form 2579 for local Small Business Office approval.

APPROVED

Date Signed

CONTRACTING OFFICER, AFRL/RIK

1. Contracting Activity: AFRL/RIKO, 26 Electronic Pkwy, Rome NY 13441 Contracting Officer:

Purchase Request: F4HBL19154A003

2. Nature and/or Description of the Action Being Processed

This action is a new firm fixed order for Rohde & Schwarz Brand Integrated Signal Generator and supporting hardware in support of the superconducting quantum processing applications.

3. Description of Supplies/Services Required to Meet the Agency’s Needs

This requirement is for the purchase of four (4) Rohde & Schwarz Brand Integrated Signal Generator (P/N: SGS100A RF Sources and includes the following accompanying items (four (4) each) SGS100A, SGS-B1, SGS-B26, SGS-B106V, SGS-B112V, SGS-K22, SGS-K90, ACASGS100A, ZZA-KN20, and SGS-Z8.) The total estimated cost for this requirement is

4. Authority Permitting a Brand Name

10 USC 2304(c)(1) Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy the agency requirement.

5. Applicability of Authority

The brand name product to be acquired is essential to the Government’s requirements and other companies’ products do not meet, or cannot be modified to meet AFRL/RITQ needs without the Government experiencing substantial duplication of cost and effort that could not be expected to be recovered through competition. The RF Signal generator from R&S is the only brand able to meet the requirement without leading to a technical loss, as the form factor of R&S apparatus allows us to maintain a compact footprint and therefore scale up to more complex qubit architectures and experiments while minimizing error/other unwanted effects from the ancillary measurement electronics. The phase coherent input and output package allows the vector signal generator (digital signal generator that produces waveforms other than sinusoidal) to be synchronized in a manner that is more stable than comparable sources. Using an alternate signal generator would require a contractor to write and debug new code (for example, Keysight uses ‘Labber’), resulting in .

Using an alternate system for this application would require a 10 MHz rubidium clock reference. Such a clock and its ancillary components would cost (e.g. from Stanford Research Systems) approximately USD

For apparatus with a larger form factor, it would be necessary to purchase an extra equipment rack, at . The net cost and effort that could not be recovered through competition is

6. Fair and Reasonable Cost Determination by the Contracting Officer

It is anticipated that the receipt of competitive quotations from a posting to FedBizOps (FBO) will produce a fair and reasonable quotation less than or equal to the Government estimate.

7. Description of Market Research Conducted Among All Awardees

The Government estimate is based on an informational quote by Rohde & Schwarz USA, Inc. The informational quote was obtained by AFRL for budgetary purposes. AFRL Market research concluded that the requirement is available through several small businesses on FBO.

8. Other Facts Supporting the Justification

There are no other facts supporting this justification.

9. List of Any Awardee That Expressed Interest in the Acquisition

10. Actions to Remove/Overcome Barriers to Increasing Fair Opportunity

The end-user will continue to perform market surveys in order to identify opportunities to maximize competition in potential future requirements.

11. Contracting Officer’s Certification

The contracting officer’s signature on the signature page evidences that he/she has determined this document to be both accurate and complete to the best of his/her knowledge and belief.

12. Technical/Requirements Personnel’s Certification

As evidenced by their signatures on the Coordination and Approval Document, the technical and/or requirements personnel have certified that any supporting data contained herein, which is their responsibility, is both accurate and complete.