JUSTIFICATION.pdf

SOLE SOURCE JUSTIFICATION

For purchases made under FAR Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures (Under

$250,000)

Name and Location of the organization making the purchase:

Federal Highway Administration Eastern Federal Lands Highway 22001 Loudoun County Parkway Ashburn, VA 20147

Describe supplies and/or services being procured:

SAP2000 is finite element program that performs static or dynamic, linear or nonlinear analysis of structural systems. The software also designs structures following AASHTO specifications, ACI and AISC building codes. The product can easily define complex bridge geometries, boundary conditions and load cases. The bridge models are defined parametrically, using terms that are familiar to bridge engineers such as layout lines, spans, bearings, abutments, bents, hinges and post‐tensioning. The software creates spine, shell or solid object models that update automatically as the bridge definition parameters are changed.

Name and Contact Information of Required Source:

COMPUTERS and STRUCTURES, INC 1646 N. California Blvd. Suite 600 Walnut Creek, Ca 94596

Rationale supporting the sole source acquisition (Authority under FAR 13.106‐1(b))

“(b) Soliciting from a single source:

(1) For purchases not exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold, contracting officers may solicit from one source if the contracting officer determines that the circumstances of the contract action deem only one source reasonably available (e.g., urgency*, exclusive licensing agreements, brand name or industrial mobilization). “

Computer and Structures, Inc. is the sole author and distributor of the SAP2000 software and CSiBridge is the only company that can provide technical assistance and software upgrades and maintenance.

The SAP2000 and CSiBridge software is the only software that can satisfy the Office of Federal Lands need for software that can performs finite element calculations in accordance with the load factor design method and is compatible with ongoing projects at the three Federal Lands divisions.