JA FAR 6 FEMAP SW (002).docx

CUI//SP-SSEL

Control Number: MZB-B-J&A22-1153

(Source Selection Information - See FAR 2.101 and 3.104-4)

JAN 2022

Justification and Approval for Other than Full and Open Competition – FAR Part 6

1. Contracting Activity: Department of the Army, Army Contracting CommandRedstone, CCAM MZB-B, Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898-5000.

2. Description of Action: The AvMC Systems Readiness Directorate (SRD) requests approval to award a small contract purchase order on a firm fixed price basis. The Government projects award for this action in August 2022. Fiscal Year 22 Operations and Maintenance, Army (OMA) funds will be used.

3. Description of Supplies/Services: Request is to obtain maintenance of the current Femap with NX Nastran software owned by the government. Femap w/NX Nastran software is used to model complex products, systems and processes to include Army rotorcraft and fixed wing platforms and is used to support all aviation platforms supported by the Systems Readiness Directorate.

The following items are required:

E601-M – Femap with NX Nastran: Basic (Floating)

The estimated total contract value for 12 months of software support is

4. Authority Cited: 10. U.S.C. 2304(c)(1) as implemented by FAR 6.302-1– This item is unique to only one manufacturer via limited reseller sources and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements and name brand descriptions.

5. Reason for Authority Cited: Femap with NX Nastran software is currently in use and is essential to mission requirements of the Systems Readiness Directorate due to its unique ability to import models, conduct analysis, and export to other finite element analysis and computer aided engineering programs and consists of approximately 30 end users. The annual maintenance is required to maintain current and future operations and to ensure continued updates to the software to reduce cyber vulnerabilities while also maintaining and upgrading functional capabilities of the software. Without Femap and its most recent software updates, critical finite analysis of aircraft systems would take much longer to accomplish in order to ensure accurate analysis from government engineers on airworthiness evaluation of Army aircraft systems. This could have a negative monetary effect on aircraft upgrade and fielding projects and/or deteriorate relations with original equipment manufacturer (OEM) components awaiting efficient airworthiness confirmations based on SRD engineering analysis. At this time, based on cost, it is not conducive to look at replacing this

Control Number: MZB-B-J&A22-1153

(Source Selection Information - See FAR 2.101 and 3.104-4) software. Software replacement would entail new integration and providing new configurations and training personnel.

6. Efforts to Obtain Competition: Pursuant to paragraph (5), request for information (RFI) through CHESS was performed to determine potential vendors able to provide this maintenance. The results can be seen in paragraph (8) below.

a. Effective competition: Pursuant to FAR 5.202(a)(6), this action is required to be synopsized.

b. Subcontracting competition: Subcontracting competition is not required for this requirement.

7. Actions to Increase Competition: In the future, any new developments in this technology area will be evaluated to determine whether the requirement can be procured under full and open competition.

8. Market Research: On April 13th, 2022, submitted RFI #402138 through the CHESS ITES-SW2 (32 vendors) and no positive responses were received. CHESS statement of non-availability # 216784361 was issued on 18 April 2022. GSA Advantage was researched, but the lone vendor on GSA for this product, Spatial Systems, can only quote new licenses and not the maintenance of existing licenses. This was also the finding from last year’s GSA market research for this requirement. Siemens PLM is the original manufacturer for this product and license the resell thereof through selected resellers.

9. Interested Sources: To date, no other sources have written to express an interest. The notices required by FAR 5.201 shall be published in the SAM.gov and any proposals received shall receive due consideration in accordance with regulatory guidelines.

10. Other Facts: The three past years of procurement history is provided below.

(1) Procurement history: The most recent firm fixed price contract for this effort from FY21 is listed below with price.

W9124P21P0085 – E601-M Qty 6 – $25,738.00