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Sole Source (Including Brand Name) Justification - Simplified Procedures for Certain Commercial Items

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The Department of the Air Force, Air Education and Training Command (AETC), 502d Contracting Squadron, JBSA- Lackland, TX is executing this individual J&A.

Twelve (12) month subscription service fee for 6,000 seats (licenses). Includes hosting of unlimited courses/ content, iOS and Android mobile apps, assigned customer success manager, initial account setup, web-based training, LMS LTI integration, and ongoing phone, ticketed email, chat-based customer support, software updates and bug fixes.

6000 seats for Cerego, Inc. software subscription for 1 year. Renewal every FY after that as deemed necessary by Higher Headquarters. The 6000 seats will be fulfilled by an initial award + 3 options:

Initial Award: 1,601 ea Option 1: 1,601 ea Option 2: 1,601 ea Option 3: 1,197 ea

HQ AETC established a CRADA) with Cerego as part of an approved implementation plan at AETC. Cerego is the intellectual and real property owner for all Cerego products. Cerego is protected by licensing and as well as proprietary and intellectual information. Therefore Cerego is the only platform capable of satisfying the Government's requirements for the materials required.

HQ AETC entered into an CRADA with Cerego in 2019 to develop software to allow Basic Military Training (BMT) trainees to access BMT curriculum electronically.

Cerego is utilized across multiple DoD organizations.

Beta-test was conducted at the beginning of FY20 with Cerego software.

Content creation took 30% less time than planned for the pilot, saving nine instructional designers 22 of the 73 days scheduled for content creation.

Instructional designers agreed (100%) that Cerego saved them time and was easier to use than other tools.

The contracting officer will make a determination on price reasonableness based on price analysis. Additionally, information other than cost or pricing data may be requested to the extent necessary to determine the price fair and reasonable.

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Due to the market research, there are no other facts that will support the use of Other Than Full and Open Competition.

The agency will continue to implement market research to determine if there are other contractors with the capability of meeting similar agency requirements on subsequent acquisitions.