PTES Joint Hub Spares JA Redacted (FINAL).pdf

Department of the Air Force: Justification for Other Than Full and Open Competition

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Substantial duplication of cost to the Government that is not expected to be recovered through competition:

Boeing, currently operates fully functional testing facilities that directly support this program. As Boeing must maintain these facilities for other active contract requirements, any investment in a new contractor's capability represents a direct and avoidable duplication of cost to the Government. A Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) estimate for establishing a new, parallel testing capability is broken down as follows: facilities and infrastructure = $ M (leasing, fitting out, and security for a facility to host the testing environment, including power, cooling, and security infrastructure required to handle government systems); personnel & onboarding = $ M (recruiting, hiring a team of engineers, technicians and logisticians including labor costs for the 10-month ramp-up period); any test equipment & software = $ M (procurement of any diagnostic equipment and licensing all required COTS and proprietary software if needed to validate system interfaces). Total estimated = $ M.

Unacceptable delays in fulfilling the agency's requirements:

The Joint Hub modem processing unit required to design, build, and test to meet Government specifications and interoperability. While this requirement is solely for spare parts of the Joint Hubs that are already developed, a new contractor would have to reconstruct these environments, to test and validate system interfaces of all government-unique and COTS components, and software, ensuring operability and conformability. It is estimated that recreating this environment would cause a month delay in reconstruction of testing environment, months delay of employee workforce onboarding, security processing, and knowledge transfer, and months delay for interface validation. Additional considerations are the effort and time of developing subcontractor agreements and implementation accounting for all level 1 and level 2 spare parts required at an estimated month delay. This cannot happen consecutively as subcontractor relationships must be established prior to the testing facility. Boeing already has testing environments in support of this contract, System Integration Laboratories. Having a new contractor implement and stand up this type of testing facility would delay the contract by months at a minimum. These estimated delays represent an unacceptable schedule risk to the Government, as market and historical data indicate that some vendor-unique spares have a production lead time of up to months. Accordingly, months for a maximum estimated delivery of the JH Spares would not meet the Government's FOC schedule, which currently requires that Spares are delivered and managed across all FOC sites by 2028 to support Operational Acceptance (OA) demonstration and testing events leading to FOC.

Accordingly, Boeing is the only firm capable of providing the supplies and services described in Section III above without substantial duplication of costs not expected to be recovered through competition or unacceptable delays in fulfilling the Government's requirements.

VI. Integrated Market Analysis and Efforts to Solicit Competition (RFO 6.104-1(a)(6), (8), and (10)):

The 2017 PTES Acquisition Strategy outlined the plan for a competitive award for the PTES system development, hardware delivery, and accounted for the procurement of system spares to satisfy System KPPs and system operational availability. The Government competed and awarded the PTES System Development contract to Boeing in 2018. In the original contract award, the Government specified an unpriced CLIN for spare parts procurement, and JH FOC Spares scope was included in the SOW at the time of solicitation and the resulting contract.

To obtain market research, the Government released a Sources Sought RFI 19 February 2025 on SAM.gov (FA8807- PTESJHS-RFI-001) to seek responses from interested parties that are capable of providing JH hardware spares to the PTES Program. The sources sought specified that there are two categories of Full Operational Capability spare parts.

The first is organic (Level 1) spare parts which will be prepositioned at the JH locations. The second category is parts that require depot level expertise (Level 2 maintenance) to troubleshoot and install. It further specified that: depot

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VIII. Any Other Facts Supporting the Justification (RFO 6.104-1(a)(9)):

None.

IX. Actions to Overcome Barriers to Competition (RFO 6.104-1(a)(11):

The PTES Acquisition Strategy addressed data rights and that it is the Government's intent to procure Government Purpose and Unlimited rights for the PTES contract to allow for future PATS phases to be procured competitively. A Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) was also implemented on the PTES contract in the SOW to enable extensibility of PTES for future competitions.

The Government will continue to conduct Market Research to assess industry capabilities and maturity of the critical spare parts to identify other responsible sources to meet the Government's requirements. If ongoing market research identifies that market capability maintains the Government's objectives relative to cost and schedule, future requirements will be solicited on a competitive basis.