10747270_MFR_redacted_Redacted.pdf

Limited Sources Rationale Subject: Wind River Products License and Software Support Funding No.: 10747270

The following paragraphs, in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation Part 13.106(b)(1), are provided to support sole source limited source justification for proposed orders exceeding the micro-purchase threshold, but not exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold. The contracting officer may solicit from only one source if the contracting officer determines that the circumstances of the contract action deem only once source reasonably available, e.g. urgency, licensing agreements, brand name, or industrial mobilization.

The purpose of this procurement is to provide United States Army’s Army Reprogramming Analysis Team - Program Office (ARAT-PO) with brand name, commercial off-the-shelf Wind River Products License and Software Support. The period of performance is date of award through one year with an estimated start date of September 18, 2015. A firm-fixed-price purchase order, in the amount of is anticipated. FY15 Operations and Maintenance funding is provided for the procurement under number 1074727. The applicable North American Industry Classification System code is 511210 with a size standard of $38.5 million.

The procurement is for the following brand-name Wind River product: new license of Wind River Workbench for VxWorks 6.5 Node Locked, Wind River Workbench for VxWorks 6.5 Node Locked seats Maintenance, Wind River Workbench 3.3.6 for on-Chip Debugging Node Locked, Wind River Workbench

3.3.6 for on-Chip Debugging Node Locked Maintenance, Wind River VxWorks 6.9, Wind River VxWorks

6.9 Maintenance and Long term enterprise support subscription. The software license support will include technical support services for Army Aircraft Survivability Equipment (ASE). Wind River is used for software support of the Operational Flight Program (OFP) which includes repairing defects and updating the OFP for US Army rotary wing and fixed wing aircraft. Wind River workbench is a graphical user interface work bench for compiling, debugging and building the OFP executables for sustainment of Army ASE. Wind River VxWorks is the Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) which is the platform Operating System (OS) on which the OFP operates.

Wind River is currently utilized in the infrastructure and requires additional licenses and support.

If additional Wind River products are not purchased the release scheduled will have to be extended as there are not currently enough licenses for expected growth and requirements. The ultimate result is the software defects will be NOT corrected in a timely manner for Soldiers to update their Aircraft Survivability Equipment which will jeopardize their missions. There is currently no alternative for this project. The platform hardware (processors) on aircraft was built by OEM.

ARAT-PO is to maintain the software only. Changing tools will require an update to hardware which is not possible in sustainment phase. A restructuring of the entire system would be required which would be research and development prior to deployment and eventually sustainment.

Conservatively, it would cost more than and it would take more than 5 years to upgrade the hardware and OS.

Army’s market research was completed via internet searches, phone calls, and requests for information during April 2015. Market research showed that these licenses are not available on existing Government contract vehicles to include DoD ESI, GSA FSS, NASA SEWP. In order to sustain the current infrastructure, only the identified Wind River product will satisfy the requirement. Wind River, a large business, is the only known provider of the required licenses and support. A solicitation will be posted to FedBizOpps.

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