Justification FAR 13 RFTrack.pdf

United States Department of Agriculture Limited Source/Brand Name Justification

FAR 13.106-1(b)(1) – Simplified Acquisitions

1. Identification of the agency and the contracting activity.

Agency: The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), Digital Infrastructure Services Division (DISC).

United States Department of Agriculture, Departmental Administration, Office of Contracting and Procurement, Procurement Operations Division, 301 S. Howes Street, Suite 321, Fort Collins, CO 80521.

2. Description of supply or service required to meet the agency’s needs.

Development of an Integration Service that includes

- Project Management - weekly status calls

- Technical planning call to finalize scope, architecture, and requirements

- Remotely setup and configure Test environment

- Support USDA development of interface to RFTrack API

- Development of REST API method if necessary.

- Dev setup and configuration to remotely connect to USDA Remedy API

- Replicate USDA data locally for development

- Remedy REST API integration development to push Asset changes to Remedy

- Develop hook to trigger push to Remedy API

- Deployment to USDA test environment and testing

- Deployment to USDA production environment for Go Live

3. The rationale or circumstances for limiting competition.

RFTrack is a proprietary software platform developed by inLogic. inLogic is the sole provider of professional services to provide customizations or intergrations with other systems such as Remedy. The scope of the integration between RFTrack and Remedy will involve the development of web API methods and processes to push and pull data between RFTrack and Remedy, which can only be developed by inLogic.

4. A description of the market research conducted and the results or a statement of the reason market research was not conducted.

Previous work had been completed through Freedom Interiors, an 8(a) company in 2022. Since then, they are no longer in the 8(a) program. The CO reached out to inLogic on September 12, 2024 in search of another 8(a) they could partner with. inLogic replied stating they do not partner with resellers as they are a small business themselves. A sole source letter was provided.

5. Estimated price, including all options, if applicable.

Period of Performance: 12 months from date of award

6. Recommended source(s).

InLogic, Inc

Certifications

Supporting data that is the responsibility of technical or requirements personnel and which form the basis for this justification are accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge.

Digitally signed by MATTHEW

SAMS

Date: 2024.09.18 08:04:44 -05'00'

Matthew Sams DevOps & Automation Operations Branch

The information contained in this justification is accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief and in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation 13.106-1(b)(1), I hereby determine the circumstances described above deem only one source, or limited sources, reasonably available and competition is precluded for the reasons indicated in this document.

Digitally signed by BRANDEE

KESLAR

Date: 2024.09.18 15:18:28 -06'00'

Brandee Keslar Contracting Officer

MATTHEW SAMS

BRANDEE KESLAR