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Contractor: CADENAS PARTsolutions, LLC

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The JUSTIFICATION REVIEW DOCUMENT

FOR JUSTIFICATION AND APPROVAL FOR OTHER THAN

FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION

Supply/Service: CADENAS Computer Aided Design (CAD) Catalog Licenses;

Installation, Configuration, and Customer Support Services

Authority: 41 U.S.C. 1901 (a)(2)

Prepared by: Janessa L. Argo Phone: (520) 693-0022 Contract Specialist Email: janessa.l.argo.civ@army.mil

Contracting Officer: Cole Patrick Harris Phone: (520) 692-9867 Contract Officer Email: cole.p.harris.civ@army.mil

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Requirements:

Reviews: I have reviewed this justification and find it adequate to support other than full and open competition.

Program Manager:

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Department of Army Justification and Approval for Other than

Full and Open Competition

1. Contracting Activity: U.S. Army Contracting Command - Rock Island (ACC-RI) Rock Island Arsenal , Rock Island, IL 61299-8000.

2. Description of Action: The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) requests a firm-fixed priced contract with CADENAS PARTsolutions, LLC (CADENAS). ACC-RI projects award for

, Research, Development, Test and Evaluation funding. An acquisition plan is not requ ired because this procurement does not meet the threshold at Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement 207.103(d)(i)(B).

3. Description of Supplies/Services: The DEVCOM Enterprise Product Data Management (ePDM) must purchase of CADENAS licenses, catalogs and initial installation services.

Product

CADENAS with CAD interface

CADENAS view only

CADENAS manufacturers catalogs

ASME B18 Digital Fastener Catalog

SAE Digital Fastener Catalog

AIA/NAS Digital Fastener Catalog

Initial Installation/Conti uration/Setu Services

The CADENAS licenses and catalog listed below are the only CAD solutions that can be deployed behind the Army's firewall and integrates with the Windchill-based Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system that exists with DEVCOM today. The ASME, SAE and AIA/NAS catalogs provide access to Standard Development Organizations (SDOs content common to engineering within the Aerospace and Defense Sectors. Designing to the standards set by these organizations ensures parts used on military systems are designed to perform in high-stress environments. CADENAS is the exclusive authorized provider of the CADENAS licenses and the AIA/NAS Digital Fastener Catalog and the SAE Digital Fastener Catalog.

CADENAS licenses and catalogs will assist with the implementation of a part management program, allow the government to establish a library of preferred and

Supply/Service: Service Est Dollar Value: _ approved parts, and eliminate the duplication of design efforts through the reuse of parts to reduce and control parts cost throughout the product lifecyle. CADENAS provides capabilities to integrate parts content within the existing DEVCOM Windchill-based PLM system with industry catalogs to conduct enterprise search. PARTsolutions will allow DEVCOM to locate Military Specifications (MILSPEC) hardware using the procured catalogs and generate 30 geometry with associated part metadata to be saved back existing Windchill PLM environment using defined CAD templates. PARTsolutions geometric and non-geometric searches will allow DEVCOM to perform similarity analysis to identify and address duplication of the extisting part inventory within the DEV COM Windchill PLM system. Through Market Research the government identifies multiple products providing general functional capabilities to search and generate 30 CAD geometry for industry parts. However, these products relied on their user community to generate the 30 geometry with no validation to ensure the correctness to the model.

The period of performance is proposed contract will include dollar value of Estimate (IGE).

Supply/Service PARTsolutions eCATALOGS Software Setup Estimated annual cost Total estimated contract price

. The DEVCOM estimates a

, based on the Independent Government

4. Authority Cited: 41. U.S.C. 1901, as implemented by Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 13.501 (a)(1 )(ii), Sole source under the simplified procedures for certain commercial items.

5. Reason for Authority Cited: As described in FAR 13.501(a)(1)(i), the contracting officer may conduct sole source acquisitions only if the need to do so is justified in writing and approved at the levels specified in FAR 13.501(a)(2). CADENAS is the only responsible source available to provide the requested supplies and services. All other commercially available products rely on the use of their respective community-base to generate 30 geometry, and do not utilize a validation process to ensure correctness of the geometric model. Further, CADENAS is the exclusive authorized provider of the following catalogs:

CADENAS is the exclusive authorized provider of the following industry standard 30 CAD catalogs:

• AIA/NAS 30 CATALOG

In partnership with the AIA and Accuris, CADENAS is the single exclusive creator and provider of the NAS 30 CAD catalog. The NAS library is a set of over 1400 active standards managed by the AIA. One of the sets of standards focuses on the development and maintenance of component specifications known as the

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NAS parts library. The NAS parts library contains specs for parts designed for use in high-stress environments.

• SAE International AS 3D CATALOG

In partnership with the SAE, CADENAS is the single exclusive creator and provider of the 3D CAD catalog for the National Aerospace Standards. The SAE Aerospace Standard (AS) library is a set of aerospace standards managed by SAE International and sold exclusively by CADENAS. SAE AS represent over 8,500 active standards. The AS standards are designed by engineers for use in high-stress environments. SAE International AS standards ensure parts used by engineers in mobility applications and high-stress environments won't fail when it counts. The SAE AS standards contain a wide variety of materials including documents on practices, processes, and 2D/3D part data.

CADENAS is the exclusive authorized provider of the CAD design software and CAD catalogs necessary to accomplish the Parts Standardization and Management Committee goals.

6. Efforts to Obtain Competition: ACC-RI shall publish the notices required by FAR

5.201. Due to the fact that this is a sole source action , effective competition is not applicable.

7. Actions to Increase Competition: As technology advances and capabilities change, market research will be conducted for Parts Management and CAD Geometry Software.

DEVCOM ePDM will continue to review and monitor whether other vendors obtain more qualified software in the future.

8. Market Research: In accordance with Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) 205.205-71, DFARS 206.302-1 (d), and DFARS Procedures, Guidance and Information 206.302-1 (d), DEVCOM prepared and posted a request for information (RFI) (# 496175) to Computer Hardware, Enterprise Software and Solutions (CHESS) on June 10th , 2024, in an attempt to increase competition. The RFI was submitted to Information Technology Enterprise Solutions - Software two (ITES-S\/\/2) vendors and requested information based on the following criteria:

• The ability to provide licensing and information technology support for CADENAS and e-CATALOGsolutions.

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- vendors responded to RFI indicating "No Bid, Not an Authorized Reseller."

Responses proposing alternate commercial products providing equivalent capability and/or satisfying the minimum set of requirements were returned. Therefore, a signed Statement of Non-Availability (#216808912) was approved on June 27th , 2024. To supplement the RFI, the Government conducted independent market research in June 2024 on vendors capable of supply data COTS subscriptions for Aerospace and Defense specification and standards. The government utilized publicly available web information as well as conducted searches on General Services Administration (GSA) to identify potential contract vehicles. Multiple products were found that provided general functional capabilities, however, all but CADENAS relied on the 3D geometry generated by the user community with no validation to ensure correctness. Primary product capabilities and feature sets were evaluated against the following criteria:

Integration

The solution must integrate with:

• The CAD authoring platforms utilized across DEVCOM

• The Windchill-based PLM system

Functional Requirements

Product capability to satisfy the functional requirements to include:

• The ability to search catalogs for geometry defining aerospace and defense specifications.

• The ability to access catalogs for geometry for the named Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) of SAE, ASME B18.24 and AIA/NAS.

• Integrated search capabilities integrating Windchill part inventories with parts contained within commercial catalogs.

• The ability to create part geometry in Creo, AutoCAD, NX, Solidworks and CATIA.

• The ability to create part geometry using Windchill start-part definitions.

• The ability to map part parameters from the commercial solution to parameters within Windchill-based CAD files.

• The ability to save generated geometry directly to a Windchill library.

• The ability to compare geometry and metadata of two CAD files to determine overlap/uniqueness.

• The ability to incorporate workflow capability to establish centralized processes for selecting and authorizing part geometry.

Non-Functional Requirements

Product capability to support key objectives of a parts management program to include:

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• Avoidance of duplication of work between designers, engineers and support engineers.

• Avoidance of creating, releasing and maintaining unnecessary common hardware.

• Reduction of the time required for searching and creation of parts.

• Enhanced part interchangeability across systems and models.

• Avoidance of the use of high-cost and/or unobtainable parts.

The product comparison table factors below were based on the integration and complete 3D geometry coverage of Aerospace and Defense specifications to include, SAE, AIA/NAS and B18 Fasteners, ad well at integration with the Windchill PLM system.

9. Interested Sources: To date , no other sources have expressed a written interest in this requirement.

10. Other Facts: The licenses for WINCOM Engineering Plus bundle providing the API to integrate XSB SWISS content with Windchill is contained within the Army contract providing for core Windchill capabilities. The XSB SWISS procurement is relevant to CADENAS requirement because CADENAS is the only vendor compatible with Windchill.

• Contract: N66001-19-A-0054/W519TC23F0441 Contractor: lmmix Technology, Inc.

Award Date: 24 August 2024

Competitive Status: Sole Source Authority: FAR 8.405-6(a)(1 )(i)(B)

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Contractor: CADENAS PARTsolutions, LLC

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11. Technical Certification: I certify that the supporting data under my cognizance which are included in the justification are accurate and complete to the best of my

12. Requirements Certification: I certify that the supporting data under my cognizance which are included in the justification are accurate and complete to the best of my

13. Fair and Reasonable Cost Determination: In Accordance with FAR 13.302-1, I hereby determine that the anticipated cost or price to the Government for this contract action will be fair and reasonable based up price analysis and a comparison of the IGE in accordance with FAR 15.404-1 (b). Certified cost or pricing data will not be required in accordance with FAR 15.403-1(b)(3) because commercial services are being acquired.

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14. Contracting Officer Certification: I certify that this justification is accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

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