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NMLC LOG# 20-00040

Form 02.4G.AB 30 Aug 2018

JUSTIFICATION AND APPROVAL

OTHER THAN FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION

1. Contracting Activity

This justification is executed by the Naval Medical Logistics Command (NMLC), Fort Detrick, MD, on behalf of the U.S. Navy to meet requirements for Naval Health Research Center (NHRC), San Diego, CA.

2. Description of the Action Being Approved.

Award of a Firm-Fixed Price contract on a sole source basis for Ad Hoc COVID-19 Analytics and Naval

Medical Strategic Planning Process Development services in support of NHRC with a Period of

Performance of 15-May-2020 through 30-September-2020.

The Government intends to award this contract to: JDSAT, Inc., 1775 Tysons Blvd, McLean, VA 22102.

3. Description of Supplies/Services.

NHRC has a need for additional analytic capability and capacity to support Navy Medicine’s crisis response planning related to COVID-19.

Navy Medicine has needs for additional descriptive and diagnostic analytics associated with the COVID-

19 pandemic that are historically based, predominantly transactional, and focused on performance evaluation. Navy Medicine must transition these descriptive and diagnostic analytics toward forward looking predictive and prescriptive analytics. This shift will provide Navy Medicine with the ability to make optimal planning and programmatic decisions that generate readiness and answer questions about what is likely to happen, what can be done to make things happen, and how to leverage opportunities or mitigate risks as events unfold.

The contractor shall focus on the following primary activities:

a. Data collection to support Ad Hoc COVID-19 Analytics - Interface with Navy Medicine supporting staff and program managers to obtain manpower, personnel, training, readiness, and other

COVID-19 related response data in the effort to identify solutions for existing, new, and/or emerging requirements. Further the contractor will determine shortfalls in Navy Medicines’ ability to provide solutions to operational missions.

b. Data collection to support Naval Medical Strategic Planning Process Development - Identify potential data sources necessary to successfully implement a concept-informed and capabilities-based strategic planning process.

c. Data analysis - Provide analytic services across all operational medical readiness capability areas, including readiness reporting; capabilities development and requirements determination; force employment, synchronization, and allocation; force resourcing and budgeting; unit/platform management;

training management; risk modeling and analysis; medical manpower and personnel staffing; process improvement; innovations, research, and development; and, evaluation of information systems, tools, and technologies.

NMLC LOG# 20-00040

Form 02.4G.AB 30 Aug 2018

d. Process analysis – Document a feasible and supportable framework for a concept-informed and capabilities-based strategic planning process that enables Navy Medicine to assess and affect key decisions on future force development.

e. Communication - Interface with Navy Medicine stakeholders to identify and prioritize analytic use cases to focus support on achieving immediate Return on Investment (ROI).

In the performance of duties under this contract, the contractor will:

• Require Government Furnished Equipment, to include Common Access Cards, SIPR tokens, and government laptops.

• Require access to unclassified NIPR and classified SIPR networks.

• Require access to systems such as Total Force Manpower Management System (TFMMS), the

Officer Personnel Information System (OPINS), the Navy Enlisted System (NES), the Individual

Augmentee (IA) Portal, Defense Medical Human Resources System internet (DMHRSi), Joint Medical

Planning Tool (JMPT), the Fleet Training Management Planning System (FLTMPS), the Individual

Medical Readiness (IMR), the Status of Readiness and Training System (SORTS), the Defense

Manpower Data Center (DMDC), the Navy Manpower Program and Budget System (NMPBS) and potentially others as deemed necessary. A minimum of 3 years of experience is required with these data systems.

A Data Sharing Agreement may be required during contract performance.

Performance of this task order requires authorized access to classified information up to and including the

SECRET level and will have a DD254 at time of award. Personnel accessing data for this requirement will be required to have a secret clearance.

Deliverables shall include a Program Management Plan, In-Progress Reviews, Monthly Status Reports, and a Final Report and briefing to include an Executive Summary.

The anticipated period of performance of this requirement is 4.5 months, and services are anticipated to begin 15 May 2020.

4. Statutory Authority Permitting Other Than Full and Open Competition.

The statutory exception permitting other than full and open competition for this acquisition is 41 U.S.C.

1901, see also FAR 13.106-1(b), Soliciting from a Single Source.

This acquisition is in support of COVID-19. Pursuant to Class Deviation 2018-O0018, "Micro-Purchase

Threshold, Simplified Acquisition Threshold, and Special Emergency Procurement Authority", the following applies to DoD acquisitions of supplies or services funded by DoD appropriations that the Head of the Contracting Activity determines are to be used to support COVID-19 emergency assistance activities:

The "micro-purchase threshold" and the "simplified acquisition threshold" are increased as follows:

- For any contract to be awarded and performed, or purchase to be made, inside the United States, the

"micro-purchase threshold" is $20,000 and the "simplified acquisition threshold" is $750,000;

- For any contract to be awarded and performed, or purchase to be made, outside the United States, the

"micro-purchase threshold" is $30,000 and the "simplified acquisition threshold" is $1,500,000; and

- For the acquisition of commercial items, the threshold for use of simplified acquisition procedures for certain commercial items is $13M.