JA APS EAGLE (Updated 2 September 2022) FINAL (Proposed Redacts).pdf

Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI)

Control No: 22-073

Department of Army Class 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: Army Sustainment Command (ASC) requests five Cost-Plus- Fixed-Fee modifications to bridge the APS Enhanced Army Global Logistics Enterprise (EAGLE) Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) Task Orders listed below. The modifications will allow critical ASC services to continue until ACC-RI awards the competitive follow-on task orders under the multiple-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) LOGCAP V contract vehicle. The Government will extend each task order for various lengths to meet the transition timeline as explained in section 3 and in paragraph 5d of this document. Some of the task orders will require an option period. ACC-RI will obligate fiscal year 2022 and 2023 Operations and Maintenance funds.

Contract Program Contractor W52P1J-12-G-0028/0002 APS 2 Amentum

W52P1J-12-G-0061/0002 APS 3 KBR

W52P1J-12-G-0061/0001 APS 4 KBR

W52P1J-14-G-0023/0001 APS 4 Watercraft (WC) MLL W52P1J-12-G-0028/0003 APS 5 Amentum

In November 2011, the Principal Assistant Responsible for Contracting approved the Acquisition Plan for the entire EAGLE program inclusive of the APS requirements in accordance with (IAW) Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) 207.103(d)(i)(B), Agency-head Responsibilities. On 1 September 2016, the Senior Services Manager, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Procurement) approved the extension of the EAGLE program and associated acquisition strategy and plan to 27 September 2027.

All five of the APS task orders are currently operating under bridge extensions that were supported by an approved Justification and Approval (J&A). As such, the Government did not compete the requirements for APS 2, 3, 4, 4 WC, or 5 prior to this action IAW the authority of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.302-1, Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. The previously approved J&As for the extensions included in paragraph 7, Actions to Increase Competition, statements indicating the services would continue to be provided under the EAGLE program and competitive follow-on task orders were in process. ACC-RI and the EAGLE program office continued to work the follow-on solicitations until 4 August 2022, when the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology) (ASA(ALT)) approved a change in acquisition strategy to move the APS requirements under LOGCAP V. As a result of this change, ACC-RI and the EAGLE program office will not complete the actions to increase competition previously specified, although the requirements will be competed under LOGCAP V. According to DFARS Procedures, Guidance, and Information (PGI) 206.304(a)(S-70)(ii), Approval of Justification, if the actions will not be completed, the justification for the follow-on acquisition shall be approved by the approval authority one level above the approval authority for the previous justification. One of the five prior extensions was approved by the Senior Procurement Executive (SPE), three by the Senior Contracting Official, and one by the local Competition Advocate. Approval of this Class J&A by the SPE will meet the requirement for approval one level above the previous justifications.

3. Description of Supplies/Services: The APS program is a service provided under the EAGLE program which is an Army preferred source. The objective of the EAGLE program is to provide global logistics services that meet the Army’s logistics mission needs in the most efficient and cost effective manner.

APS 2: The contractor is responsible for maintaining APS stored mainly at Dulmen and Mannheim, Germany, and Zutendaal, Belgium. The contractor performs the work largely on and in the vicinity of those locations. APS 2 is comprised of combined-arms, battalion-sized groups of vehicles and equipment pre-positioned in Europe designed to equip Army regionally aligned forces when they rotate into theater for training, disaster relief, theater security or contingency operations. This pre-positioning of vehicles and equipment in theater enables the Army to save time, money and resources by only rotating personnel into theater. ASC is responsible for maintaining APS 2 at Army Standard -10/-20 condition (fully mission capable) IAW Army Regulation 750-1, Army Materiel Maintenance Policy, Chapter 3, and, Technical Manual (TM) 38-470, Storage and Maintenance of Army Prepositioned Stock Materiel.

APS 3: The contractor is responsible for providing logistics support services for the APS Program at Army Field Support Battalion - Charleston, which is located at the Joint Base Charleston Naval Weapons Station, Goose Creek, SC. This facility serves as an equipment service and maintenance hub for APS stored-on maritime vessels, including but not limited to: Large Medium Speed Roll-on/Roll-off ships (LMSR) and sustainment ammunition. The contractor works on the sustainment ammunition/supply container ships at the Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point, NC and requires Army War Reserve Development System support.

The contractor services and maintains various types of equipment, and performs supply activities associated with container ships, during ship upload and download. This cyclic supply and maintenance process focuses heavily on accountability, repair, rebuilding, reconfiguring, and preserving and repacking equipment, equipment sets, material supplies, special sets kits and outfits for long term storage afloat, on-site or redistribution.

The contractor is also responsible for equipment maintenance stored on shipboard afloat. The contractor maintains a crew of shipboard personnel aboard each LMSR that performs maintenance equipment exercises in order to assess, maintain, and report equipment/materials serviceability, availability and readiness. On short notice, LMSRs and ammunition/supply container ships may be deployed anywhere in the world to support military contingencies, exercises, and operations other than war.

understanding of the COSIS and ship schedule that is required to keep the mission afloat. The varying maintenance sets support specific Operational Plans in theaters throughout the world. In the event of a contingency, the inability to have KBR contracting personnel able to deploy would hinder the handoff of the equipment sets and therefore degrade the ability of the warfighter. The KBR employees also have the required security clearances and base access.

APS 4: KBR has been performing the APS 4 Korea COSIS mission since the Government competitively awarded its task order on 22 September 2014. KBR’s employees are in place and have the required skills and familiarity with the processes and systems necessary to perform the required services. The KBR employees also have the required security clearances and base access. The 403rd AFSB is a pivotal part of the Army’s Materiel Enterprise, and ASC continues to require maintenance, supply and logistics services through a contracted workforce to maintain combat equipment.

Operational readiness services provided under APS 4 include maintenance, recovery support, equipment movement, coordination for equipment movement, quality control, equipment turn-ins, segregation into unit sets, configuration, hand-offs, technical inspections, functional testing, lateral transfers and reset to support warfighters.

APS 4 WC: As the incumbent, MLL has 11 years of on-the-ground experience, with approximately 34 employees who are in place, fully trained, have appropriate security and country clearances to be in Japan. MLL’s workforce already has the specialized personnel able to provide program, maintenance, and communication support for APS 4 Watercraft. The type of specialization required to successfully meet the Army’s needs is significant to include industrial based experience in marine machinery, marine structural repair, marine maintenance, marine licenses, and communication certifications. MLL is the only source performing the APS 4 Watercraft mission and no other contractor provides immediate repair and or replacement of broken and end-of-life equipment associated with watercraft. MLL has acquired unique subject matter expertise and situational awareness of the various watercraft and their subcomponents (i.e., non-standardized propulsion and power generation systems across the platforms).

APS 5: Amentum has been providing services under the APS 5 task order since 2016.

Amentum is the only company that can provide the required services without a break in APS 5 mission support. There are no other companies that can provide this specialized service within the required timeframe. Amentum has a workforce of approximately 2,035 employees who are in place, fully trained, have appropriate security clearances and country clearances to be located in these countries. Amentum’s employees have the required skills and familiarity with the processes and systems necessary to perform the required services. Additionally, because of their experience on this task order since 2016, Amentum possesses the critical knowledge of local laws and regulations, as well as has an established relationship with the Kuwaiti Government.

f. Award of a new, short term competitive task order at any of the APS locations would require a 12 month lead time to conduct a competition and for the vendor to attain FOC to ensure continuation of services during the competition of the follow-on contracts. The Government would need at least 10 months to post a solicitation, receive and evaluate proposals, and award a new contract (including a protest period). The Government would require an additional 60 days to transition to a new contractor to achieve FOC. A 60-day transition period would be required for a new contractor to recruit, interview, hire, mobilize, and train personnel and provide orientation to the workforce. If the Government took this approach, there would be a stop in APS services as the current task orders would expire prior to award of a new, short term competitive task order.

g. Failure to allow the APS EAGLE task order modifications will place the warfighter at risk. The APS services directly and indirectly support training of forces, preparing forces for deployment, sustainment and redeployment in support of current conflicts, reset of forces, and assist in rebuilding readiness for future deployments and contingencies to meet the demands of persistent global conflicts. Failure to execute extensions will result in harm to the U.S. Government and negatively affect the Department of Army’s ability to execute DoD strategic and contingency operations and exercises across the globe.

6. Efforts to Obtain Competition: ACC-RI shall publish the notices required by FAR 5.201, Synopses of Proposed Contract Actions. Because this is a sole source action, effective competition is not applicable. The Government will achieve subcontracting competition by including FAR clause 52.244-5, Competition in Subcontracting in the task orders, which states that the contractor shall select subcontractors on a competitive basis to the maximum practicable extent.

7. Actions to Increase Competition: The services supported by this justification are currently in the process of being competed under the LOGCAP V multiple award IDIQ contracts. The award milestone for all APS task orders is 20 July 2023.

8. Market Research: ACC-RI has issued draft APS Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and final APS RFPs to EAGLE BOA holders within the last 12 months. The Government received hundreds of questions from multiple interested vendors over the past eight months. The Government continues to receive regular inquiries in regard to the status of the APS requirements via email and phone from interested EAGLE BOA holders. The results of the APS solicitations and re-occurring inquiries from industry indicate other vendors are interested and capable of providing the required services; however, for the reasons cited in paragraph 5, only KBR, Amentum and MLL can meet the Government’s short-term requirement until ACC-RI awards the competitive follow-on task orders under LOGCAP. Therefore, issuing a separate Sources Sought notice or Request for Information (RFI) for this action will provide no additional benefit to industry or the U.S.

Government. As such, the Senior Contracting Official/Senior Executive Service approved a waiver to the requirement to post a sources sought or RFI as required by DFARS 206.302-1(d), Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements and DFARS PGI 206.302-1(d).

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

10. Other Facts:

a. Procurement History

APS 2:

Contract: W52P1J-12-G-0028/0002 Mod BS Contractor: Amentum Award Date: 20 May 2022 Competitive Status: Not competed, J&A 22-038 Authority: FAR 6.302-1

Contract: W52P1J-12-G-0028 / 0002 Contractor: URS Federal Support Services, Inc. (Novation change to Amentum) Award Date: 23 June 2016 Competitive Status: Full and Open under EAGLE

APS 3:

Contract: W52P1J-12-G-0061/0002 Mod B5 Contractor: KBR Award Date: 14 Feb 2022 Competitive Status: Not competed, J&A 21-025 Authority: FAR 6.302-1

Contract: W52P1J-12-G-0061/0002 Mod 86 Contractor: KBR Award Date: 28 Jan 2021 Competitive Status: Not competed, J&A 21-025 Authority: FAR 6.302-1

Contract: W52P1J-12-G-0061/0002 Contractor: KBR (previously Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc.)

Award Date: 29 July 2015 Competitive Status: Full and Open under EAGLE

Contract: W911SE-07-D-0014/BA02 Contractor: Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc.

Award Date: 14 September 2009 Competitive Status: Fair Opportunity Procedures (FAR 16.505(b)(1)) under the Field and Installation Readiness Support Team (FIRST) multiple-award IDIQ contract

APS 4:

Contract: W52P1J-12-G-0061 / 0001, Modification 78 Contractor: KBR Award Date: 18 May 2022

Competitive Status: Not competed, J&A 22-004 Authority: FAR 6.302-1

Contract: W52P1J-12-G-0061 / 0001, Modification 69 Contractor: KBR Award Date: 23 August 2021 Competitive Status: Not competed, J&A 22-004 Authority: FAR 6.302-1

Contract: W52P1J-12-G-0061 / 0001, Modification 64 Contractor: KBR Award Date: 23 August 2021 Competitive Status: Not competed, J&A 21-005 Authority: FAR 6.302-1

Contract: W52P1J-12-G-0061 / 0001, Modification 60 Contractor: KBR Award Date: 17 November 2020 Competitive Status: Not competed, J&A 21-005 Authority: FAR 6.302-1

Contract: W52P1J-12-G-0061 / 0001, Modification 53 Contractor: KBR Award Date: 07 May 2020 Competitive Status: Not competed, J&A 20-068 Authority: FAR 6.302-1

Contract: W52P1J-12-G-0061 / 0001 Contractor: KBR (previously Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc.)

Award Date: 22 September 2014 Competitive Status: Full and Open under EAGLE

Contract: W911SE-07-D-008 / BA01 Contractor: URS Federal Support Services, Inc. (previously Lear Siegler Services, Inc.)

Award Date: 29 September 2009 Competitive Status: Full and Open under the FIRST multiple-award IDIQ contract

APS 4 WC:

Contract: W52P1J-14-G-0023/0001 Mod 99 Contractor: MLL Award Date: 13 Aug 2021 Competitive Status: Not competed, J&A 20-028 Authority: FAR 6.302-1

Contract: W52P1J-14-G-0023/0001 Mod 93

Contractor: MLL Award Date: 17 Feb 2021 Competitive Status: Not competed, J&A 20-028 Authority: FAR 6.302-1

Contract: W52P1J-14-G-0023/0001 Mod 82 Contractor: MLL Award Date: 20 March 2020 Competitive Status: Not competed, J&A 20-028 Authority: FAR 6.302-1

Contract: W52P1J-14-G-0023/0001 Contractor: MLL Award Date: 18 September 2014 Competitive Status: Full and Open under EAGLE

Contract: W52P1J-09-C-0049 Contractor: MLL Award Date: 17 Sep 2009 Competitive Status: Full and Open

APS 5:

Contract: W52P1J-12-G-0028/0003 Mod C4 Contractor: Amentum Services, Inc.

Award Date: 1 Jul 2021 Competitive Status: Not competed, J&A 21-070 Authority: FAR 6.302-1

Contract: W52P1J-12-G-0028/0003 Contractor: Amentum Services, Inc. (Formerly URS Federal Services) Award Date: 31 August 2016 Competitive Status: Full and Open under EAGLE

Contract: W52P1J-16-C-0005 (Bridge Contract) Contractor: Vectrus Systems Corporation Award Date: 24 November 2015 Competitive Status: Not competed, J&A 15-330 Authority: FAR 6.302-1

Contract: W52P1J-15-C-0016/P00003 (Added Army and Foreign Military Sales requirements) Contractor: Vectrus Systems Corporation Award Date: 17 April 2015 Competitive Status: Not competed, J&A 15-203 Authority: FAR 6.302-1

Contract: W52P1J-15-C-0016 (Bridge Contract) Contractor: Vectrus Systems Corporation Award Date: 27 February 2015 Competitive Status: Not competed, J&A 15-058 Authority: FAR 6.302-1

Contract: W911SE-07-D-0006/BA02 Contractor: Vectrus Systems Corporation (Formerly Exelis Systems Corporation and ITT Systems Corporation) Award Date: 22 February 2010 Competitive Status: Full and Open competition

b. This class J&A will cover all future actions, each of which will include a statement of applicability memorandum for record stating the action is within the scope of the class J&A in each contract file.