LSJ_EHS Services_Bridge Task Order__Signed.pdf

LIMITED SOURCE JUSTIFICATION (LSJ)

1. IDENTIFICATION OF AGENCY AND CONTRACTING OFFICE

Agency: Social Security Administration (SSA)

Contracting Office: Office of the Deputy Commissioner for Budget, Finance, and Management Office of Acquisition and Grants (OAG) Office of Operations Contracts (OOC) Division of Facilities Contracts (DFC)

Contracting Officer (CO): Christopher Brennan / 410-966-0392

Program Office: Office of the Deputy Commissioner for Budget, Finance, and Management Office of Facilities and Logistics Management (OFLM)

Office of Environmental Health and Occupational Safety

(OEHOS)

Contracting Officer’s Zachary Hepler / 410-965-1166 Technical Representative

(COTR):

Title: Environmental, Health, and Safety Services (Bridge Task

Order)

Proposed Contractor: Advanced Technologies and Laboratories International, Inc.

2. NATURE AND DESCRIPTION OF ACTION

We seek approval of an LSJ to award a bridge task order to Advanced Technologies and Laboratories International, Inc. (hereinafter “ATL”) for environmental, health, and safety services at the agency’s headquarters facilities located in Baltimore, MD. SSA requires these services for the safe operational use of these facilities, which is part of the agency’s critical infrastructure. Currently, we receive these professional services from ATL through an Interagency Agreement (IAA) between SSA and the Department of Health and Human Services, Program Support Center/Federal Occupational Health (hereafter referred to as “PSC/FOH”) under IAA agreement PHS-20-0004. However, SSA was recently notified that PSC/FOH would no longer perform these services under the IAA for the agency’s headquarters facilities after November 17, 2020. Due to the critical nature of these services, an urgent and compelling circumstance exists for the agency to procure bridge services from ATL. We contemplate a period of approximately nine (9) months of bridge services to facilitate the establishment of a five-year competitive procurement. The bridge award will ensure continued protection of the agency employees and contractors working at the headquarter facilities in Baltimore, MD.

3. DESCRIPTION OF SUPPLIES OR SERVICES AND ESTIMATED VALUE

The proposed task order will provide environmental health, safety, management, and industrial hygiene services including performing environmental sampling of air, water, soil, and process by-product & waste materials for the headquarters facilities. The task order will require the vendor to furnish all necessary management, supervision, labor, materials, supplies, and equipment to plan, schedule, coordinate, and assure effective performance of all safety, environmental and industrial hygiene services, as detailed in the Statement of Work and applicable attachments.

The estimated value of this nine-month action is $425,500.

4. IDENTIFICATION OF STATUTORY AUTHORITY PERMITTING LIMITING

SOURCES

FAR 8.405-6(a)(1)(i)(A) – Urgent and Compelling Need

The agency’s need for the services identified herein is of such an urgent and compelling need that the Government would incur unacceptable delays if not permitted to limit the number of sources from which it solicits quotes. Consequently, full and open competition is not required.

5. CONTRACTOR’S UNIQUE QUALIFICATIONS

ATL has been successfully providing these services on the current and prior IAA with PSC/FOH. Due to its current experience providing environmental, health, and safety services at the headquarters facilities, ATL possesses the unique ability to provide an expedited service transition with minimum disruption in performance and safety readiness. Furthermore, ATL can rapidly be awarded a General Services Administration (GSA) task order to perform, as the required services are available on its GSA schedule GS-00f-067CA, which covers the entire period of performance for this bridge task order.

6. EFFORTS TO SOLICIT OFFERS FROM OTHER POTENTIAL SOURCES

Due to the urgency of this requirement, we made no efforts to solicit from other sources.

Following award of a short-term bridge task order, we will competitively solicit this requirement and facilitate vendor interest through posting of the solicitation on GSA e- Buy website and other market research tools.

7. DETERMINATION THAT THE PRICE WILL BE FAIR AND REASONABLE

Per FAR 8.405-2(d), we will determine a fair and reasonable price via a comparison of the proposed price with ATL’s GSA schedule prices including evaluating the level of effort and labor mix proposed.

8. MARKET RESEARCH

Per FAR 10.002(b)(2)(i), we performed market research by contacting knowledgeable individuals in the agency (e.g. the COTR) regarding market capabilities to meet our requirement. Since ATL is currently performing these services successfully, the agency conducted no further market research.

9. OTHER FACTS SUPPORTING USE OF LIMITING SOURCES

As noted in Section 2 of this document, the absence of environmental, health, and safety services at the agency’s headquarters facilities could negatively affect the health and safety of agency personnel, and could possibly lead to a closure of the headquarter facilities until environmental, health, and safety services could resume.

10. LIST OF SOURCES EXPRESSING INTEREST IN THE ACQUISITION

We have not received interest in performing this requirement from any other sources.

Due to unusual and compelling urgency (see Section 4), we intend to negotiate solely with ATL for the award of a short-term bridge task order.

11. ACTION TAKEN TO REMOVE COMPETITIVE BARRIERS

As referenced in Section 2, this action will ensure that the agency does not experience a lapse in these critical services. A short-term bridge award will provide support while we re-compete this requirement and is therefore considered a one-time action. We anticipate releasing a competitive solicitation for these services in March 2021, and subsequently awarding within three months after release of the solicitation.

12. CONTRACTING OFFICER’S TECHNICAL REPRESENTATIVE (COTR)

AND PROGRAM OFFICIALS’ RECOMMENDATION AND CERTIFICATION

The COTR and other program officials hereby certify that the information provided in support of this justification for limiting sources, and which forms the basis for the justification, is accurate and complete.

Recommend: _Zachary Hepler, COR______ Date: ____11/5/2020__ Zachary Hepler, COR

DCBFM/OFLM/OEHOS

Concur: _ ________ Date: __11/05/2020_____ Candice Thompson, Director

Concur: _ __ Date: _11/05/2020_ Bob Hammond, Director

13. CONTRACTING OFFICER’S AND OTHER CONTRACTING OFFICIALS’

CERTIFICATION

The contracting officer hereby certifies to the best of his knowledge and belief that the information provided in support of this justification is accurate and complete.

11/6/2020 Recommend: _____________________________ Date: ________________ Christopher Brennan, CO

DCBFM/OAG/OOC/DFC

Concur: ____________________________ Date: 11/06/2020 Joe Speca, Team Leader

Concur: Date: 11/06/2020 Derek Easter, Division Director

/s/ John Andrews 11/09/2020 Approve: ____________________________ Date: ________________ John T. Andrews, Office Director

DCBFM/OAG/OOC