Giant Voice J_A_Redacted.pdf

Single Source Justification (Simplified Acquisition)

FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY

March 2018 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Page 1 of 2

Dobbins Air Reserve Base (ARB) requires annual preventative and corrective maintenance for the 94AW Giant Voice (outdoor and indoor) system. Pursuant to FAR 6.302-1(a)(2), the Government intends to solicit, negotiate, and award a sole source contract to:

A.N.S. Services, LLC 8600 W. Bradley Rd.

Milwaukee, WI 53224-2816, The Government has determined that no other source can meet this requirement.

The current Giant Voice (GV) system at Dobbins ARB is an older system that has been pieced together to integrate a new Enterprise Land Mobile Radio Network as well as the Enterprise AtHoc Notification System.

A.N.S Services successfully researched and reverse engineered the integration of the two (2) new Networks/Functions into the older existing system and therefore possesses exclusive technical knowledge of the highly integrated system infrastructure. As this knowledge rests solely with A.N.S. and no documentation exists for the system interfaces, no other source can provide the required corrective and preventative maintenance of the highly integrated system. This specialized technical knowledge is imperative during outages. Lack of knowledge and familiarity with the highly integrated and unique system infrastructure would cause the Government to experience significant down time resulting in an increased threat to the health and safety of installation personnel as well as Air Force assets.

It is anticipated that procuring these services from any another source would require significant engineering manhours and cost to redevelop the knowledge required to effectively and successfully maintain the intricate and unique GV system infrastructure. This would result in a substantial duplication of cost not expected to be recovered through competition and cause unacceptable delays in fulfilling the agency's needs.

In accordance with FAR 6.302-1(a)(2), the Government has determined that no other source can meet this requirement.

A Notice of Contract Action (NOCA) was synopsized as a Pre-Solicitation Notice on the beta.SAM website 13 August 2020 to 28 August 2020 and outlined a proposed sole-source award to A.N.S. Services, LLC. No qualified or viable

Single Source Justification (Simplified Acquisition)

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March 2018 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Page 2 of 2 responses were received to indicate that any company, other than A.N.S. Services, LLC., possessed the capability to provide Giant Voice support and maintenance services to Dobbins ARB.