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LRL-FY25-105

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

LOUISVILLE DISTRICT, CORPS OF ENGINEERS

P.O. BOX 59

LOUISVILLE,KENTUCKY 40201-0059

REPLY TO

ATTENTION OF

Justification and Approval for Other Than Full and Open Competition

1. Contracting Agency: The responsible contracting agency is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Louisville District, P.O. Box 59, Louisville, KY 40201-0059.

2. Description of Action: This action is to set procurement for annual software maintenance for Teledyne CARIS and SevenCs (7Cs) software (30 September 2025 to 29 September 2026). Software maintenance for the current year expires on 29 September 2025. Teledyne Geospatial is the parent company to both CARIS and 7Cs.

3. Description of Supplies/Services: Procure annual software maintenance for the CARIS software listed below and acquire software and annual software maintenance for the 7Cs software listed below. The anticipated cost of this contract action $75,000.

Qty Description 1 CARIS HPD PostgreSQL Server License 1 CARIS HPD PostgreSQL Server Subscription 3 CARIS HPD Product Editor Subscriptions 3 CARIS HPD Source Editor Subscriptions 2 CARIS S-57 Composer Subscriptions 1 CARIS Bathy DataBASE Server Subscription 1 CARIS BASE Manager Subscription 2 CARIS BASE Editor Subscriptions 1 7Cs Desktop Base Module Subscription 1 7Cs Chart Display Module Subscription 1 7Cs ESRI Shape Export Module Subscription

4. Authority Cited: Title 41 United States Code (U.S.C) § 1901(e)(2) as implemented in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 13.501(a)(1)(ii), sole source (including brand name) under the authority of the simplified procedures for certain commercial items.

5. Reason for Authority Cited:

This is software maintenance on existing software being utilized for the maintenance of Inland Electronic Navigational Charts (Inland ENC) and for the acquisition of new software for quality assurance of the Inland ENCs.

Although software exists for producing Electronic Navigational Charts (ENC), there are no other software packages on the market capable of producing and performing quality assurance on Inland ENC.

6. Efforts to Obtain Competition:

N/A. CARIS HPD is the only software package on the market capable of producing Inland ENC using a database approach. 7Cs is a partner company (both owned by Teledyne Geospatial) and is the only software on the market capable of performing quality assurance checks on the Inland ENC.

7. Anticipated cost to the Government: I hereby determine that the anticipated cost or price to the Government for the procurement will be fair and reasonable based on commercial pricing and/or established catalog prices for similar items.

8. Market Research: Market research was not performed in view of the reasons cited above, in paragraph 5, finding that Teledyne Geospatial, the parent company to both CARIS and 7Cs, is the only vendor available to provide the service.

9. Other Facts: N/A

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10. Interested Sources: A redacted version of this J&A will be posted with the issuance of the solicitation in accordance with FAR 5.102 (a)(6) and 13.106-1(b).

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

13. Requirements Certification: I certify that supporting data under my cognizance which are included above are accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

14. Fair and Reasonable Cost Determination/Contracting Officer Certification:

I hereby determine that the anticipated price/cost to the Government will be fair and reasonable based upon the estimate provided in paragraph 2. I further certify that this justification is accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Date Title: Contracting Officer

15. Legal Sufficiency Review and Concurrence: I hereby determine that the information herein is legally sufficient, and I concur with the sole source procurement.

Date Title: Office of Counsel