JA STINGER W31P4Q-22-R-0052_redacted.pdf

Contractor: Raytheon Missile Systems (RMS)-Tucson

Program/Equipment: Stinger Trainer Depot Level Maintenance Facility

JUSTIFICATION REVIEW DOCUMENT

FAR PART 6 JUSTIFICATION AND APPROVAL FOR OTHER THAN

FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION

Program/Equipment: SHIELD PM, Stinger Trainer Depot Level Maintenance Facility (DLMF) for Repair and Return of Captive Flight Trainer CFT and Tactical Head Trainer

(THT).

Authority: 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1) as implemented by FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)(iii)(A) Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy Agency Requirements.

Amount:

CUI//SP-PROCURE

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

1. Contracting Activity: Army Contracting Command – Redstone (ACC-Redstone), Aviation Logistics Directorate-PATRIOT, CCAM-MLP, Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898-5000

2. Description of Action: SHIELD PM requests a Firm Fixed Price (FFP) Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF) hybrid follow on contract with Raytheon Missile Systems (RMS) Tucson, 1151 E. Hermans Road, Tucson AZ 85756-9367 CAGE 15090. The Government projects award for July 2022 and fiscal year 2022 Operations and Maintenance (OMA) funds will be used.

Description of Supplies/Services: This requirement is for contractor logistics support of all AMCOM-managed major and secondary items, assemblies, and subassemblies contained in the STINGER missile training devices. Contractor will diagnose, repair, test, and return to a Serviceable Condition Code A, the Tactical Head Trainer (THT) and Captive Flight Trainer (CFT) Stinger training systems. This contract will be a tri-service contract that includes the Army, United States Marine Corp (USMC), and Army National Guard (ANG) with a maximum quantity of

3. Authority Cited: 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1), as implemented by FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)(iii)(A) Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements.

4. Reason for Authority Cited:

As described at FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)(iii)(A) when the supplies or services required by the agency are available only from one responsible source, or for DoD, NASA and the Coast Guard, from only one or a limited number of responsible sources, and no other types of supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements, full and open competition need not be provided for. The approved contractor designer or manufacturer of the items is Raytheon Missile Systems (RMS) Tucson, 1151 E. Hermans Road, Tucson AZ 58756-

9367 CAGE 15090.

(a). Do to current shipping delays and manufacturing bottlenecks, to include the fragility of the US logistics industry, the amount of time required to develop an alternate source cannot be resolved in the near future. Coupled with the current high demand for STINGER weapon systems trainers do to current world affairs will create unacceptable delays and possible impacts to mission readiness.

(b). Training Missions would be canceled due to the end user receiving a STINGER trainer that is inoperable if this J&A is not approved. See paragraph 2 “Description of Action” for further details.

5. Efforts to Obtain Competition: The Contracting Officer shall publish the notices required by FAR 5.201 and any bids or proposals received shall be considered. The contracting officer published a sources sought notice to SAM.Gov on

All sources responding to the requirement will receive due consideration and provided to the SHIELD PM for review.

a. Effective Competition: Because this is a sole source action, effective competition is not applicable.

b. Subcontracting Competition: Subcontracting competition will be achieved by FAR

Clause 52.244-5, "Competition in Subcontracting'', and DFARS 252.219-7004 (Small Business Subcontracting Plan (Test Program) will be incorporated into the resulting contract. The contractor will be encouraged to select subcontractors on a competitive basis to the maximum extent practicable.

6. Actions to Increase Competition: There is no anticipated action to increase competition at this time. The repair of the STINGER missile secondary and major items must remain with the prime contractor due to requirements for unique System Test Equipment located at the RMS Tucson facility and the need for system application testing. This type of intensive management of unserviceable assets is required to adequately support current STINGER missile deployments. However, competition will be encouraged at the subcontractor level.

The solicitation will have required clauses related to competition on subcontracting and will require RMS’s best efforts to identify breakout components. Based on the reasons cited above, no actions have been taken or are being considered to overcome barriers to competition before any subsequent acquisition of supplies or services.

7. Market Research: The techniques used for market research were in accordance with FAR 10.002(b)(2)(i). The Stinger Missile System is considered a sunset weapon system with a replacement in development. Due to its replacement, Industry Days and Technical Conferences did not focus on identifying alternative sources that could repair the Stinger Trainer Missiles "CFT and THT systems. Market research, performed , revealed no similar repair services available. Note that to perform such repair and return service a offeror would have to have working product and fabrication knowledge of the electronics and guidance sections within the Stinger missile. The offeror would also have to have special test equipment, designed to evaluate all parameters needed to ensure each trainer's accuracy. The timeline for development and prove out of such equipment would exceed one year and cause a year or more break in Stinger CFT and THT trainer repairs thus obstructing the units readiness because of lack of training for Stinger Missiles.

Market research conducted for this acquisition utilized personal knowledge in procuring supplies/services of this type. The Division Chief of SHIELD Production Engineering performed this Market Research during the timeframe of .

Regarding the commercial nature of this requirement and standard industry practices in this area of supply/services, and review of catalogs and/or other generally available product literature, the Government researched websites, , with the following databases, finding no relevant information pertaining to the services requested. https://www.forecastinternational.com/index.cfm https://www.dnb.com/ https://aviationweek.com/ https://www.janes.com/

The contracting officer published a sources sought notice to SAM.Gov on with a closing date of .

SHIELD PM reviewed statement and determined that due to the reasons noted in paragraph 5(c) above that are not capable of performing this requirement.

http://www.forecastinternational.com/index.cfm http://www.forecastinternational.com/index.cfm http://www.dnb.com/ http://www.dnb.com/ https://www.janes.com/

The services required are military unique to this weapon system. The provider must have extensive experience and knowledge of this weapon system in order to provide the needed services while providing these services at a cost and schedule that is acceptable to the Government.

In accordance with Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) 205.205-71, DFARS 206.302-1(d), and DFARS Procedures, Guidance and Information (PGI) 206.302-1(d), a sources sought was posted to SAM.Gov on The contracting officer will ensure all interested sources submitted by the closing date receive due consideration.

8. Interested Sources: To date, only the sources listed in paragraph 6, are the only sources to express interest in the acquisition. A pre-solicitation notice will be posted to Sam.Gov . Any potential sources submitting proposals will be reviewed and given due consideration.

9. Other Facts:

(1) All historical contracts were Sole Source.

(2) All historical contracts used the authority of 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1) as implemented by FAR Part FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)(iii)(A) Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy Agency Requirements.

(3) Paragraph 7 J&A : There is no anticipated action to increase competition at this time. The repair of the STINGER missile secondary and major items must remain with the prime contractor due to requirements for unique System Test Equipment located at the RMS Tucson facility and the need for system application testing. This type of intensive management of unserviceable assets is required to adequately support current STINGER missile deployments.