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Single Source Justification Western Area Power Administration

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

21WA138009

1. Identification of the agency and the contracting office.

Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), Upper Great Plains Region, Billings, Montana

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

This is a renewal for Quality Training Database™ (QTD™) QTD Deluxe (QTD-X), Test Development Tool (TDT), Employee Portal (EMP), and Remote Hosting modules. A sole source/brand name, fixed-price contract will be awarded.

3. The rationale or circumstances for limiting competition.

This software is proprietary to Quality Training Systems (QTS), and there are no distributors of the QTS products. WAPA already utilizes and has a significant investment in Quality Training Systems QT Database. If another vendor were to be competitively selected, their product wouldn’t be able to interface with QTS’ proprietary database and subsequent software updates would be incompatible.

WAPA has been using and employing QTD database for a number of years, and it would be highly cost-prohibitive to merge QTS database product with another database.