HHPC JOFOC - NTE Increase_Redacted.pdf

Rev.:4/2023

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

LYNDON B. JOHNSON SPACE CENTER

JUSTIFICATION FOR OTHER THAN FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION

(JOFOC) FOR

THE HEALTH HUMAN AND PERFORMANCE CONTRACT (HHPC)

CONTRACT NUMBER: NNJ15HK11B

1. Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.303-2(b)(1) – Identification of the agency and the contracting activity, and specific identification of the document as a “Justification for other than full and open competition.”

This document is a justification for other than full and open competition prepared by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC).

The procuring agency is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the contracting activity is JSC.

2. FAR 6.303-2(b)(2) – The nature and/or description of the action being approved:

This justification provides the rationale for using other than full and open competition to award a modification on a sole-source basis to increase the maximum value of HHPC which is a 100% Indefinite-Delivery Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) Cost-Plus Award Fee (CPAF) contract with KBR Wyle Services, LLC for existing services to human space flight activities and other human space flight platforms. The contract was competitively awarded as a single award IDIQ with a 10-year ordering period consisting of a 5-year base, a 3-year option, and a 2-year option.

The contract was awarded on July 28, 2015, with an ordering period from November 1, 2015, to October 31, 2025. Both option periods have been exercised on the contract which extended the period of performance without increasing the contract value.

JSC is projecting an increase of million to the maximum ordering value, or Not-to- Exceed (NTE), is necessary for continued support through the end of the contract’s period of performance. The resulting maximum ordering value for the HHPC contract will increase from

As explained in detail below, the new NTE estimate of is based on the increases in support to new programs within the scope of this IDIQ over the last three years, along with additional margin to cover programmatic uncertainties. Specifically, the increase is stems from:

These increases are in addition to continuing levels of support to ISS, CCP, HRP, and Crew Health and Performance. The value increase also includes potential increase in support to other NASA centers and Headquarters related to these programs and other NASA programs.

The original NTE of established in 2015 did not anticipate the recent increased growth in support of new human spaceflight programs. Examples of specific activities that have driven this increased demand includes:

Given the critical support that this contractor provides related to the health and medical support of the astronauts for NASA’s upcoming human spaceflight missions, it is critical that there is no disruption in services. Any disruption will significantly increase the risk to the missions.

3. FAR 6.303-2(b)(3) – A description of the supplies or services required, to meet the

Agency’s needs (including the estimated value):

NASA requires a long term, integrated contract for support of the broad range of activities in the Human Health and Performance Directorate (HHPD) at JSC to maintain and improve the health, safety and productivity of crew living and working in space, the overall excellence of science on human space missions, and the transfer of scientific and technical knowledge to practical applications on Earth. There will be no changes to the services provided by KBR Wyle Services, LLC under the proposed contract modification. The scope of work of the existing contract requires the contractor to provide support for a broad range of human spaceflight activities, including fundamental and applied biomedical research; operational space medicine; occupational health and medicine at JSC and the White Sands Test Facility (WSTF); management of clinical, biomedical, space food and environmental laboratories;

behavioral sciences; human factors engineering/Human Systems Integration (HSI);

spacecraft environment monitoring and management; biomedical engineering; biomedical flight hardware requirements; design, fabrication, testing, certification and operation of flight hardware; payload and hardware integration with the International Space Station (ISS), and other human space flight platforms.

HHPC provides support to the JSC, Ellington Field, WSTF, Sonny Carter Training Facility, facilities in Russia housing both NASA and JSC contractor personnel, and other remote locations. The significant interrelationships of these tasks are to assess, train, monitor, and treat the crew members during the three phases (pre-flight, in-flight, and post-flight) of any mission, making it essential that all HHPC requirements are performed under one contract.

HHPC requires the same expertise be available across the scope of the contract so that NASA can successfully ensure an integrated and comprehensive support for safe, healthy, and productive crew. HHPC continues to provide support to NASA major programs: the ISS, Crew Health and Safety (CHS), Human Research Program, Commercial Crew, Orion, Artemis, Gateway, Human Landing System (HLS), Extravehicular Activity and Human Surface Mobility (EHP), and Commercial Low Earth orbit (LEO). In addition to the Programmatic support, the HHPC provides occupational health support for JSC and WSTF.

It is beneficial for the government to award a sole-source modification to increase the maximum value by as no other service contracts at NASA has this type of comprehensive and broad scope or ordering value to absorb the HHPC requirements. A modification to exercise Option 2 was executed to extend the period of performance through October 21, 2025. Based on current projections of existing task orders and continuously increasing volume of support, the remaining ordering value is insufficient.

Without an increase to the maximum ordering value, NASA will be precluded from continuing current ongoing supports to human space flight activities and other human space flight platforms.

Furthermore, transitioning work to another contractor could result in substantial performance delays and disruptions on current support to NASA’s mission readiness because it will take any contractor ample time to understand and execute the HPPC contract requirements.

Additionally, a follow-on contract is anticipated in the near-term. It is critical that NASA does not have a lapse in the human health and performance support, as continuity of the services are vital to NASA human spaceflight activities. This sole-source modification increase will allow NASA to continue with these critical functions until a HHPC follow-on contract is awarded.

4. FAR 6.303-2(b)(4) – An identification of the statutory authority permitting other than full and open competition:

The statutory authority permitting other than full and open competition is 10 U.S.C 3204(b)(B) the property or services needed by the agency are available from only one responsible source or only from a limited number of responsible sources and no other type of property or services will satisfy the needs of the agency, as implemented by FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)(iii)(B) Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements.

5. FAR 6.303-2(b)(5) – A demonstration that the proposed contractor’s unique qualifications or the nature of the acquisition requires use of the authority cited:

The rationale supporting the use of 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1) is that KBR Wyle Services, LLC has the extensive specialized training and unique skills and expertise to provide uninterrupted mission critical support to NASA’s major human spaceflight programs and operations as described below.

The specialized nature of the HHPC requires that the contractor performs all facets of a wide range of HHPC requirements to ensure a safe, healthy and productive crew. The services include:

These unique and highly specialized services provided under HHPC are extremely critical for continued and uninterrupted support to a wide range of programs such ISS, CHS, HRP, Commercial Crew, Orion, Artemis, Gateway, HLS, EHP, and Commercial LEO, as well as commercial providers through Government Task Agreements (GTA)/Government Collaboration Agreements (GCA).

These services not only support research and payload integration to ISS and space missions, but also provide research and integration support in analog environments, such as Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA), and other domestic and international analogs. The potential loss of expertise and skills due to an unanticipated transition to another contractor could result in unacceptable disruption in supporting these missions.

Procuring these services from any other source would create significant performance delays.

Due to the unique expertise provided by KBR Wyle Services, LLC through their performance under HHPC to this point, transitioning this work to any other contractor for the remaining ordering period of the contract would cause programmatic risk and delays. In addition, any delays will negatively impact the effective human health and performance support for human exploration of the Moon planned to be implemented by 2024 and to enable Moon to Mars Objectives.

6. FAR 6.303-2(b)(6) – A description of the efforts made to ensure that offers are solicited from as many potential sources as practicable, including whether a notice was or will be publicized as required by Subpart 5.2 and, if not, which exception under 5.202 applies:

A notice to the Government Point of Entry (GPE) website (Sam.gov) was published on April 14, 2023, in accordance with FAR Subpart 5.2. This posting informed potential sources of NASA’s intent to award this sole-source modification increasing the IDIQ Maximum Ordering Limits to KBR Wyle Services, LLC. The results of this synopsis are summarized in Section 10 below.

7. FAR 6.303-2(b)(7) – A determination by the contracting officer that the anticipated cost to the Government will be fair and reasonable:

The Contracting Officer will determine that the anticipated cost to the government will be fair and reasonable upon the execution of each individual task order revision or during the annual renewal of the task orders. The Contractor shall be required to submit a proposal to be evaluated and negotiated by the Government. Prior to execution of the contractual instrument, a proposal analysis will be performed. The proposal analysis will ensure that the final agreed-to price for the contract action is fair and reasonable.

The HHPC was competitively awarded as a Cost-Plus Award Fee (CPAF) IDIQ contract with work currently authorized by individual task orders, which are priced using labor categories and fully burdened direct labor rates established in the contract. These rates were established at contract award and cover the remaining ordering period. In addition, the Contracting Officer’s Representative and the Contracting Officer will review the contractor’s task plan and estimates to determine that the direct labor hours, skill mix, other direct costs, indirect costs, and fees are fair and reasonable prior to each task order being issued, as is the practice with the current contract.

8. FAR 6.303-2(b)(8) – Description of the market research conducted, and the results, or a statement of the reasons a market research was not conducted:

A notice to SAM.gov was published on April 14, 2023 to announce NASA’s intent to increase the maximum ordering value of the HHPC contract through October 31, 2025. The result of the synopsis is included in paragraph 10 of this document. Awarding to another contractor will cause an unacceptable delay to major NASA human spaceflight programs because it will take any contractor ample time to understand and execute the HPPC contract requirements.

Additionally, market research was completed on the entire portfolio of contracts in the Occupational Health Product Service Line (PSL), which also included HHPC. During this process, contracts across the agency were reviewed to determine if they could be utilized to support the HHPC work as part of a broader agency enterprise strategy. The contract scope of work, size, complexity, contract type, period of performance, small business goals and type of set-aside were some of the factors that were reviewed during this review. Due to the size and complexity of the unique work requirements under the HHPC contract, there are no other viable contracts across the agency that can support the HHPC work. Additionally, none of the contracts included in the agency’s PSL portfolio had sufficient contract ceiling to cover the requirements needed to support the necessary ongoing HHPC work. Furthermore, due to the unique factors mentioned above the follow-on contract to HHPC was selected as one of the Occupational Health enterprise contract solutions for the agency.

9. FAR 6.303-2(b)(9) – Any other facts supporting the use of other than full and open competition:

None.

10. FAR 6.303-2(b)(10) – A listing of the sources, if any, that expressed an interest in writing in the acquisition:

A Notice of NASA’s intent to award this sole-source action was synopsized on the GPE website (Sam.gov) per FAR Subpart 5.2 (See Section 6 above). The notice was posted to the GPE on April 14, 2023 with responses due on April 28, 2023 and no companies responded.

11. FAR 6.303-2(b)(11) – A statement of actions, if any, the agency may take to remove or overcome any barriers to competition before any subsequent acquisition for the supplies or services required:

There are no barriers to competition for the services required. The current contract has an expiration date of October 31, 2025. Currently, pre-decisional activities are underway in preparation for the competition of the follow-on contract that is scheduled to begin performance on November 1, 2025.

HHPC NNJ15HK11B

JUSTIFICATION FOR OTHER THAN FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION

SIGNATURE PAGE

I certify that the facts presented in this justification are accurate and complete.

Mihriban Whitmore Technical Representative

I hereby certify that the above justification is complete and accurate to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Yaranet Marquez Contracting Officer

CONCURRENCES:

Per NFS 1802.101, See HCA Signature Line Jose C. Garcia Procurement Officer

Jade M. Spurgeon Competition Advocate Occupational Health

Jose C. Garcia Head of Contracting Activity Johnson Space Center

JOSE

GARCIA

Mihriban Whitmore

YARANET

MARQUEZ

Jade Spurgeon

HHPC NNJ15HK11B

JUSTIFICATION FOR OTHER THAN FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION

SIGNATURE PAGE

Scott Barber HQ Office of the General Counsel at Headquarters

Marvin L. Horne Agency Competition Advocate

APPROVAL:

Karla Smith Jackson Senior Procurement Executive

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Marvin Horne

Digitally signed by Marvin Horne Date: 2023.11.14 19:47:15 -05'00'

Karla Jackson

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