Justification_&_Approval_Document.pdf

SOLE SOURCE JUSTIFICATION UNDER SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURES

FOR CERTAIN COMMERCIAL ITEMS

UNDER FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION (FAR) 13.5

1. AGENCY AND CONTRACTING ACTIVITY: The Department of Defense, Washington

Headquarters Services, Acquisition Directorate, Enterprise Office of the Secretary of Defense, Specialized Services Branch

2. DESCRIPTION OF ACTION:

Estimated Contract Value: $220,000.00 ($55,000/per year) Proposed Contract Type: Firm Fixed Period of Performance: One 12-month base and three (3) 12-month option periods Proposed Contractor: Bit Discovery

Bit Discovery meets DDS’s immediate requirement of a secure, multifunctional and collaborative tool that facilities network discovery for Top Level and Sub-Domain statuses of DoD assets. Additionally, as organizations as large and complex as the DoD continue to grow, they tend to lose track of their online assets. Organizations continue to become more disconnected and as service members rotate through the workcenter, continuity is not always adequately passed on and thus assets can be difficult to track at an Enterprise level capability.

Currently, the Military Services and 4th Estate Agencies rely upon legacy, labor intensive, and ineffective methods and tools residing upon dated infrastructure to track their IT assets such as end-point hosts, servers, webservers, and Class-C IP ranges. Using the aforementioned tools such as HBSS, ACAS, and SCCM gives the military assets owners less than a 90% (at best) certainty of what’s truly in their vast IT architecture. This also may not represent what is forward facing and web accessible. When DDS works with the military services to help troubled programs, they must rely this inaccurate data which can often cause delays in development until accurate information is identified. Bit Discovery shortens this discovery time significantly. Using the BETA version of Bit Discovery, DDS was able to uncover:

• 600K+ “Army.mil” subdomains

• 200K+ “Navy.mil” subdomains

• 80K+ “AF.mil” subdomains

• 2M+ other online assets associate with the .Mil domain

License breakdown: Total estimated dollar value of this procurement is approx $55,000 per year, for a total of $220,000.00. DDS has FY18 - FY21 Operations and Maintenance (O&M) funding to support this requirement.

3. DESCRIPTION OF SUPPLIES/SERVICES: License breakdown: Total estimated dollar value of this procurement is approx $55,000 per year, for a total of $220,000.00. DDS has FY18 - FY21 Operations and Maintenance (O&M) funding to support this requirement.

4. AUTHORITY CITED: This action is under the procedures of under the procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 13.5 under the authority of:

☐41 U.S.C. 1901, Simplified Acquisition Procedures

5. REASON FOR AUTHORITY CITED:

Specific characteristics of the brand name components are limited to the exact description of the items described above because of the precision of use. Substitutes are not acceptable for the custom build needs for the DDS work on communication devices.

The required components must be compatible with all aspects of the current prototype in order to ensure mission success. Quantity and volume of web assets that Bit Discovery has to offer surpasses the scale offered by other services. Quantity and volume of the IP, IP ranges, keywords and domain names available for search and investigation surpasses that which is available from others.The component being used to develop the device must be the exact specified model/item number to support DDS in completing their overall mission.

6. EFFORTS TO OBTAIN COMPETITION: A Notice of Intent to Sole Source will be posted to Federal Business Opportunities website in accordance with FAR 5.207(c)(16). Per the Notice of Intent, WHS/AD requested any responsible sources may submit a capability statement which shall be considered by the agency for future procurements. If any responsible sources submit capability statements, WHS/AD and DDS will evaluate these submitted capabilities to help determine the appropriate acquisition strategy for future procurements.

7. FAIR AND REASONABLE COST DETERMINATION: The Contracting Officer determines that the anticipated prices will be fair and reasonable by using the techniques identified at FAR 15.404-1(b)(2)(ii) to ensure award will be at fair and reasonable prices.

Certified Cost and Pricing Data will not be obtained.

8. MARKET RESEARCH: DDS conducted in-depth market research to determine whether Bit Discovery meets its requirements. DDS vetted several tools through their websites, brief demos, and spoke with industry leading Digital Service Experts. Further market research was conducted via Google, SBA’s Dynamic Small Business, GSA Advantage and FPDS NG to

Line Item Description

Number of Account Licenses

Estimated Unit Price

Subtotal Line Item

Bit Discovery License :30 Sept 2019- 29 Sept 2020 10 $5,500.00 $55,000.00 Bit Discovery License :30 Sept 2020 – 29 Sept 2021 10 $5,500.00 $55,000.00 Bit Discovery License :30 Sept 2021 – 29 Sept 2022 10 $5,500.00 $55,000.00 Bit Discovery License: 30 Sept 2022 – 29 Sept 2023 10 $5,500.00 $55,000.00

Grand Total 40 $220,000.00 determine if resellers of the Bit Discovery Bitlocker licenses existed. This market research resulted in no resellers of this product in the market.

9. ANY OTHER FACTS SUPPORTING THE USE OF SOLE SOURCE: Based on the

Government’s current market research, including input from numerous technical advisors, Bit Discovery meets the unique needs of DDS to rapidly support DoD missions. As such DDS requires an easy-to-use, well organized, and centralized portfolio of the unclassified websites of organizations, which can be instantly created and automatically updated. Bit Discovery fills this current mission gap and would aide in the development of multiple DDS and military projects.

Specifically, Bit Discovery is the only service that facilitates automatically monitoring a large subset of subdomains and technologies all at once. Their inventory includes at least 2 million .mil subdomains and includes data for the entire internet starting from 2014 to present.

10. INTERESTED SOURCES: To date, no other sources have expressed an interest in writing.

11. ACTIONS TO INCREASE COMPETITION: WHS/AD and DDS will continue to take action to remove or overcome any barriers to competition by evaluating any capability statements submitted in response to the Notice of Intent and continue to conduct market research to discover any reseller companies that can meet the salient characteristics of Bit Discovery.

Is this acquisition for a non-competitive follow-on acquisition previously awarded on a non-competitive basis?

☐Yes. A copy of the previous justification is attached. The actions to remove any barriers to competition cited on the previous justification were completed.

CERTIFICATION

I, hereby, certify that the supporting data under my cognizance included in this justification are accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Contracting Officer Representative/Program Office Clair Koroma

Date

Contracting Officer Date Rashida Webb