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Control No. # 14-B28

JUSTIFICATION REVIEW DOCUMENT

FOR OTHER THAN FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION

Program/Equipment: Program Manager Mission Command (PM MC), Product Manager (PdM) Strategic Mission Command (SMC) for the Global Command and Control System - Army (GCCS-A).

yearly maintenance support for Logi Analytics Ad Hoc Query and Logi Analytics Info, and additional Logi Analytics Ad Hoc Query and Logi Analytics Info licenses.

Authority: FAR 16.505(a)(4) Amount:

Prepared by:

Contracting Officer:

Technical Representative:

Management Representative:

JUSTIFICATION FOR AN EXCEPTION

TO FAIR OPPORTUNITY UNDER FAR16.505

1. Agency/Contracting Activity: U.S. Army Contracting Command

Aberdeen Proving Ground

ATTN: ACC-APG

Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005-1846.

2. Description of Action: Approval is requested for purchase of yearly maintenance support for Logi Analytics Ad Hoc Query and Logi Analytics Info, and additional Logi Analytics Ad Hoc Query and Logi Analytics Info licenses in support of the U.S. Army Project Manager (PM) Mission Command (MC) – Strategic Mission Command (SMC) on the basis of other than full and open competition.

Yearly maintenance support is required for existing Logi Analytics software licenses so that Product Manager (PdM) SMC

The additional licenses are required to support production systems (operational), baseline.

Nature: New Requirement Follow-on Requirement Mod to Existing Purchase Order/Contract Number

Order against: FSS Contract Number: _________________________________

OR

Multiple Award ID/IQ Contract Number: ____________________

Pricing: Firm-Fixed Price Time & Materials Cost

For Hybrid Contracts, list percentage of each type of pricing:

Firm Fixed Price:

Time & Materials:

Cost:

Funds: Operations and Maintenance, Army (OMA) Other Funds: APA

Fiscal Year of Funds: 2012

3. Description of Services or Supplies:

The estimated value of the proposed action is The proposed procurement includes yearly maintenance support renewal for Logi Analytics Ad Hoc Query (up to four processors, 16 cores) and Logi Analytics Info ( ) support through 30 September 2015 and an additional quantity of licenses and first year support as described below.

Product Description Quantity Period of Performance

Total

Logi Info (license 2427713 - 4 processors) - annual maintenance (POP= Oct 1, 2014 thru Sept 30, 2015)

1 Oct 1, 2014 thru Sept 30, 2015

Logi AdHoc (license 2427711 - 4 processors) -annual maintenance (POP= Oct 1, 2014 thru Sept 30, 2015)

1 Oct 1, 2014 thru Sept 30, 2015

Logi Info Production Server license- Unlimited user (2CPU/8core max server capacity)

3 1 year

Logi AdHoc Production Server license- Unlimited user (2CPU/8core max server capacity)

3 1 year

Logi Info Production Server license (4CPU/16core max server capacity) - 1st year maintenance

3 1 year

Logi Ad Hoc (4CPU/16core max server capacity) - 1st year maintenance

3 1 year

Logi Info - Disaster Recovery Server license 4 1 year Logi AdHoc - Disaster Recovery Server License 4 1 year Logi Info - Disaster Recovery Server license - 1st year maintenance

4 1 year

Logi Ad Hoc - Disaster Recovery Server license - 1st year maintenance

4 1 year

Logi Info - Non-Production Server license - 2CPU/8core max server capacity

7 1 year

Logi Ad Hoc - Non-Production Server license - 2CPU/8core max server capacity

7 1 year

Logi Info - Non-Production Server license - 1st year maintenance

7 1 year

Logi Ad Hoc - Non-Production Server license - 1st year maintenance

7 1 year

TOTAL

4. Authority:

ORDER AGAINST FSS: Title 40 USC 501, Services for Executive Agencies; and Section 803 of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2002 (PL 107-107); and FAR 8.405-6. Mark the applicable exception:

Item peculiar to one manufacturer (e.g. brand name item, product, or feature of a product peculiar to one manufacturer (FAR 8.405-6(b)).

Limit consideration to fewer than three (3) schedule contractors (FAR 8.405- 6(a)(1)). In accordance with DFARS 208.405-70(b), mark the applicable exception:

A statute expressly authorizes/requires that purchase be made from a specified source [DFARS 208.405-70(b)(1)]

Urgent agency need precludes fair opportunity [FAR 16.505(b)(2)(i)(A)] Only one awardee is capable because supplies or services are unique or highly specialized [FAR 16.505(b)(2)(i)(B)] Logical follow-on, in the interest of economy and efficiency, to an order already issued under the contract, provided that all awardees were given a fair opportunity to be considered for the original order [FAR 16.505(b)(2)(i)(C)]

OR:

ORDER AGAINST MULTIPLE AWARD ID/IQ CONTRACT: Section 803 of the

National Defense Authorization Act of 2002 (PL 107-107), FAR 16.505(b)(2) and DFARS 216.505-70(b), The contracting officer shall give every awardee a fair opportunity to be considered for a delivery/task order. Mark the applicable exception:

A statute expressly authorizes/requires that purchase be made from a specified source [DFARS 216.505-70(b)(1)]

Item peculiar to one manufacturer (a particular brand-name, product, or a feature of a product that is peculiar to one manufacturer) [FAR 16.505(a)(4)].

Urgent agency need precludes fair opportunity [FAR 16.505(b)(2)(i)(A)] Only one awardee is capable because supplies or services are unique or highly specialized [FAR 16.505(b)(2)(i)(B)] In the interest of economy and efficiency, the order is a logical follow-on to an order already issued under the contract, provided that all awardees were given a fair opportunity to be considered for the original order [FAR 16.505(b)(2)(i)(C)]

It is necessary to place the order to satisfy a minimum guarantee [FAR 16.505(b)(2)(i)(D)]

5. Reasons for Authority Cited: In compliance with net-centric data strategy, all defense readiness data must be collected and stored through a web-based system.

Logi Analytics formerly known as LogiXML, has all of the capabilities needed for the nly one brand name is capable of providing the supplies or services at the level of quality required because the supplies or services ordered are unique or highly specialized. Yearly maintenance support is required for both the existing Logi Analytics software licenses and the additional licenses being procured so PdM SMC can receive support from the Logi Analytics vendor when software bugs are identified or help is needed in deploying the software as well as to receive necessary software updates. Prior to the purchase of the Logi Analytics licenses, the in conjunction with PdM SMC project officers conducted trials of commercial off the shelf (COTS) products with the intended operational users. The COTS product Logi Analytics was selected based on input from the intended users, satisfaction of functional and technical requirements, and cost. The product had all of the capabilities needed for the users to build

. The Logi Analytics COTS software product was integrated and tested Query application. Without the Logi Analytics license maintenance and support, the Army will not have access to Logi Analytics software updates or vendor support commercial software solution evaluation, purchase of new software licenses, and the redevelopment of the . Redevelopment would also require new test procedures, functional and regression testing, and multiple stakeholder/user acceptance tests.

The additional licenses are required to support the different environments where the A thorough audit of the systems running this software was conducted and through conversations with the manufacturer of the product, it was determined that in to be in compliance with their licensing policy, the additional licenses described in section 3 would be required.

The An ATO is an Information Assurance (IA) accreditation that verifies that a system meets all the required acquisition and IA requirements before being allowed on a government network. The ATO helps ensure that systems fielded on government networks have limited risk

6. Market Research: Government technical experts reviewed the CHESS website to identify potential sources to fulfill this requirement. There are currently six vendors available via the ITES-2H contract available on CHESS(

). All vendors on this contract were contacted and quotes have been received. Market research, analyses, and tests of alternative solutions were conducted. None of these efforts have yielded additional potential sources.

7. Actions to Increase Competition: There are two alternatives to purchasing the maintenance, support, and licenses for Logi Analytics Ad Hoc Query and Info: These courses of action were identified and found unacceptable in May of 2014.

1. Migrate to another COTS product

2. Develop a custom coded capability

These two options are not reasonable courses of actions as none of them could be completed in less than a year’s time while the current maintenance and support acquired in 2013 will expire on 1 October 2014. Without the maintenance and support for Logi Analytics the would not be able to obtain software patches after October and the system would thus be left

The removal of the Hoc Query application from the network would be will be detrimental to accommodating the ongoing development of

Option 1 (New Product): The effort to identify, acquire, and migrate existing application capability to another COTS product would require the acquisition of new software licenses from a COTS vendor to replace already purchased licenses from Logi Analytics, and extensive system engineering and testing efforts to replace the existing application capability. Migrating to a new product will not alleviate the U.S. Army from having to purchase annual maintenance and support from the new vendor of the COTS product chosen. A new COTS product would also require the PdM SMC and to complete the process to update the existing to which is an extensive process as described in Paragraph 5. The new product would not possess a Certificate of Net-Worthiness (CoN) which increases the acquisition requirements process effort to obtain. It is estimated that it will cost about and take to execute this option in addition to efforts on other higher priority requirements that are identified by the - .

Option 2 (Custom Development): This option is not feasible as the amount of time to develop and test a custom solution for the and complete the Information Assurance (IA) certification process would require a minimum of at current staff levels to complete. It is estimated that it will cost and take a total of to execute this option in addition to delaying other (including those unrelated to the Ad

). The fourth year is due to the length of time required to certify the application, preparation of the application until the implementation of this COA is done.

Lastly, any efforts spent supporting one of the potential options listed above would be at a detriment to supporting the current development efforts for . In order to support current requirements and perform one of the options above, additional staff would need to be hired by the which would negate and most likely exceed any cost savings obtained from one of the options above. Market research, analyses, and tests of alternative solutions are ongoing processes for software intensive systems. At this time there is no other available COTS hardware product to meet this agency’s needs without substantial costs and unacceptable delays discussed in Paragraph 5 above. The risk involved with using an alternative source to for Logi Analytics would be considered high and is therefore unacceptable.

8. Procurement History:

Previous Purchase Order(s) or Contract(s): Yes No

If "Yes", for each purchase order or contract provide:

Purchase order or contract number: W91QUZ-07-D-0009-BG33, BG30, BG21, BG14, 2V75

Was action competed? Yes No If action was not competed, state the cited authority, summarize rationale, and describe the actions that were supposed to be taken to increase competition and the results thereof:

9. Technical / Requirements Certification: I certify that the supporting data under my cognizance which is included in this J&A is accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

SIGNATURE

DATE 27 AUG 2014

TITLE Team Lead Command Post Distribution

10. Contracting officer’s determination that the order represents best value (FAR 8.404(d) or FAR 16.505(b)(5)), to include the basis for determination of a fair and reasonable price per

FAR 15.402:

11. Reviews: I have reviewed this justification and have no legal objection.

SIGNATURE N/A

DATE

TITLE LEGAL ADVISOR

12. Contracting Officer’s Approval: I hereby certify that this justification is accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief. Based on the foregoing justification, I approve the award of a Firm-fixed-price for yearly maintenance support for Logi Analytics Ad Hoc Query and Logi Analytics Info, and additional Logi Analytics Ad Hoc Query and Logi Analytics Info licenses in support of the U.S. Army Project Manager (PM) Mission Command (MC) – Strategic Mission Command (SMC) on an other than full and open completion basis pursuant to the authority of 10 U.S.C. 2304(c) and FAR 16.505(a)(4) “Items peculiar to one manufacturer”, subject to availability of funds, and provided that the services and supplies herein described have otherwise been authorized for acquisition. This action will be a new Delivery Order placed on the existing CHESS ITES-2H contract.

SIGNATURE E-Signed by GRESHAM.CHRISTINA.LEE.1171125657

VERIFY authenticity with e-Sign

DATE Wednesday, 27 August, 2014

TITLE CONTRACTING OFFICER