CJA_17307_Redacted.pdf

UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS

MARINE CORPS SYSTEMS COMMAND

2200 LESTER STREET

QUANTICO, VIRGINIA 22134-6050

IN REPLY REFER TO:

CT 028-PEO LS

J&A No. 17,307.0

(CLASS) JUSTIFICATION AND APPROVAL ((C) J&A)

FOR USE OF OTHER THAN FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION

1. Contracting Activity

Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC)

Program Executive Officer Land Systems (PEO LS)

2200 Lester Street

Quantico, VA 22134

2. Description of the Action Being Approved

The use of other than full and open competition to award a Basic

Ordering Agreement (BOA) on a sole source basis for Testing and

Engineering Technical Support Services to support the Ground Vehicle

Systems within the Marine Corps and other DOD agencies with Hodges

Transportation Inc. DBA Nevada Automotive Test Center (NATC) of Carson

City, Nevada. Authority to act under this class justification expires five (5) years from the date of award of the basic ordering agreement.

3. Description of Supplies/Services

The proposed contract action is to procure specialized Testing and

Engineering Technical Support Services for the Marine Corps and other

Department of Defense (DoD) agencies for testing and research for

Ground Vehicle Programs.

PEO LS has a requirement to conduct ground vehicle testing over various representative terrains and under climatic conditions consistent with those encountered during Marine Corps operations throughout the world. Additionally, there is a requirement to provide technical support, program management support for the specific task or effort, logistical support during testing of the systems, systems engineering support to derive performance requirements and identify threshold performance values for legacy and developmental ground vehicle systems and sub systems utilizing alternative fuels, onboard power resources, fuel efficiency upgrades, advanced suspension components and other emerging technologies. Vehicle related testing that utilizes vehicles as prime movers, such as trailer testing, may also be required. Testing may include the following types of tests:

Accelerated Life Testing

Durability testing over natural terrain profiles representative of the Marine Corps Mission Profile

Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Testing

Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards Testing

Ground Vehicle Testing

Vehicle Dynamics Testing

Terrain Profiling

Tire Testing

Virtual Proving Ground

Performance/Mobility testing to include:

-Soft soil (course and fine grain) testing

-Course grain sand slope testing over naturally occurring sand dunes up to 60% slopes with less than 1% moisture content

-Tractive effort testing (Drawbar Pull) on mud, sand and pavement

-Low coherence natural terrain profiles with RMS values ranging from 1.0-5.0

-Vehicle Cone Index

-Ascending/Descending Longitudinal Grades up to 60%

-Traversing side slopes up to 40% in a sinusoidal maneuver on natural occurring terrain

Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability testing over natural terrain profiles representative of the Marine Corps

Mission Profile

Acceleration and Braking Testing to include Mountain Descent

Braking down 6% - 9% grades

Transportability

Corrosion/Environmental

Fording/Deep water swimming

Rollover and other non-FMVSS tests

Weapons/Lethality testing

Characteristics (examples: center of gravity, vehicle weights)

Survivability/under body blast and ballistic vulnerability testing

Vehicle Occupancy Protection

Amphibious vehicle swim testing

Fuel Efficiency Testing over natural terrain profiles representative of the Marine Corps Mission Profile

Full Load and Road Load Cooling

NATO Lane Change on pavement and gravel surfaces

Support in the conduct of on-site Operational Testing Events

The following engineering support for testing may be required by task orders placed under the BOA:

Engineering/technical assessments of operational safety issues and test failures

Review and recommendations related to prime contractor responses to test incident reports

Engineering/technical recommendations for correction of test related issues

Preparation of documentation of test results (test reports, test incident reports, etc.)

Modeling & simulation, including mobility modeling and other computer based simulations of vehicle and test events

Development and application of test related instrumentation

Other engineering support to include vehicle and subsystem prototype design, modeling, fabrication and testing

The orders issued under this BOA will be funded with appropriations from Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E), Procurement or Operation & Maintenance (O&M) funds.

Each order will specify a period of performance for the specific services ordered under this agreement. The authority to act under this (C)J&A will end five (5) years from the date of issuance of the basic ordering agreement. The orders will be completed in accordance with each order’s specific task requirements. The ordering ceiling amount for this agreement is $49,500,000. The estimated dollar value is identified in the table below:

Estimated Dollar Value

FY 18 FY19 FY20 FY21 FY22 Total

RDT&E $7,285,964 $7,582,422 $7,889,258 $8,206,831 $8,535,525 $39,500,00

PMC $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $5,000,000

O&M,MC $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $5,000,000

Total by FY $9,285,964 $9,582,422 $9,889,258 $10,206,831 $10,535,525 $49,500,000

4. Statutory Authority Permitting Other Than Full and Open

Competition

The statutory authority permitting use of other than full and open competition is 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1), as implemented in Federal

Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.302-1(b)(1)(i), “Only One Responsible

Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy the Agency

Requirements.”

5. Rationale Justifying Use of Cited Statutory Authority

The prior BOA for Testing and Engineering Technical Support Services

M67854-12-G-0202 was awarded on a sole-source basis to NATC on 01

March 2012. NATC offers an extensive range of automotive engineering and testing services for both commercial and military vehicles and component manufacturers, to include ballistic testing and rapid prototyping. NATC’s automotive, heavy-truck, and military vehicle testing facilities encompass virtually all driving conditions found in the world and maintain access to 85% of the world’s soil types and terrain features within a 150 mile radius. NATC’s facilities also include a dedicated winter test facility at West Yellowstone, MT, and that is the only known facility to offer test ranges which replicate the severity of the Marine Corps Operational Mission profile.

Based on the Market Research report dated 31 January 2017, the

Government has determined that NATC is the only commercial engineering and testing facility with the capability to provide the Marine Corps with all-inclusive services to assist in designing, modeling, fabricating, building and testing prototype vehicles or upgrades to legacy vehicles. In addition, NATC is the only commercial test facility that can perform automotive and durability testing over naturally occurring terrain with the severe roughness that is representative of the Marine Corps Operational Mission Profile with

Root Mean Square values of .1 to 4.8 coinciding with the upper design limits that Marine Corps Ground Vehicles are designed to perform to.

To obtain the same level of capabilities and support, the Marine Corps would be required to parcel out the design, modeling and simulation, and prototype build to a Government facility/activity or to private industry and then rely on another Government or commercial test facility to conduct the actual testing. The testing at these other facilities, either Government or contractor owned, would be limited to their established test courses and not fully representative of the extreme conditions required of the Marine Corps Operational Mission

Profile.

NATC is the only known responsible source that can satisfy the

Agency’s requirement for testing legacy and prototype upgrades over the entire Marine Corps mission profile. Award to any other source would result in substantial duplication of cost to the Government that is not expected to be recovered through competition. The costs associated with conducting these efforts at separate locations would increase task order costs by a range of 15% to 77% with an average of

48% and would add risk to accomplish these efforts within the desired schedule parameters, unreasonably leading to unacceptable delays in fulfilling Marine Corps requirements.

6. Description of Efforts Made to Solicit Offers from as Many

Offerors as Practicable

In accordance with FAR 5.201, the proposed action was synopsized on the FEDBIZOPPS website on 13 March 2017, describing the Government’s intent to issue a Basic Ordering Agreement to NATC on a sole source basis. No potential Offerors or sources responded to this announcement expressing an interest that can meet the Government’s requirement.

PEO LS has also reviewed technical publications and contacted knowledgeable individuals in the Government and industry regarding companies in the market with the capabilities to meet these requirements. It has been determined that there is no existing DoD contract that will satisfy this requirement nor are the required services available under an existing non-DoD contract.

7. Determination of Fair and Reasonable Cost

In accordance with FAR 15.402, Pricing Policy, the Contracting Officer will ensure that the services covered by this (C)J&A are procured at a fair and reasonable price using Independent Government Cost Estimates

(IGCE), cost and price analysis, prior similar contracts, historical pricing data, audits, and other means as deemed necessary. In accordance with FAR 15.404-1, the Contracting Officer will perform a price analysis at the task order level to evaluate the reasonableness of the offered price or cost analysis to evaluate the reasonableness of the individual cost elements of the Contractor’s proposal.

8. Actions to Remove Barriers to Future Competition

For reasons set forth in paragraph 5, PEO LS has no plans to compete future requirements for the services covered by this document. If another potential source emerges, PEO LS will assess whether competition for future requirements is feasible. Any future actions will be reviewed by PEO LS to offer competition to the greatest extent possible.

CERTIFICATIONS AND APPROVAL

TECHNICAL AND REQUIREMENTS CERTIFICATION:

I certify that the facts and representation under my cognizance which are included in this Justification and its supporting acquisition planning documents, except as noted herein, are complete and accurate, to the best of my knowledge and belief.

RUBEN J. GARZA, MARINE CORPS COORDINATOR, DATE

JOINT CENTER FOR GROUND VEHICLES

PEO LAND SYSTEMS

PHONE: 703-432-5124

LEGAL SUFFICIENCY REVIEW:

I have determined this Justification is legally sufficient.

LISA L. BAKER DATE

COUNSEL

PHONE: 703-432-2869

CONTRACTING OFFICER CERTIFICATION:

I certify that this Justification is accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

TIFFANY PARKER DATE

CONTRACTING OFFICER

MARINE CORPS SYSTEMS COMMAND

PEO LAND SYSTEMS

Phone: 703-432-5418

PROGRAM EXECUTIVE OFFICER:

ANDREW D. BIANCA DATE

PEO LS, ACTING

PHONE: 703-432-5618

COMPETITION ADVOCATE:

VALERIE J. MOSQUEIRA DATE

COMPETITION ADVOCATE

PHONE: 703-432-3919

MARINE CORPS SYSTEMS COMMAND APPROVAL:

Upon the basis of the above justification, I hereby approve, as

Executive Director, Marine Corps Systems Command, the solicitation of the proposed procurement described herein using other than full and open competition, pursuant to the authority of 10 U.S.C.2304 (c)(1) as implemented by FAR 6.302-1.

W. S. WILLIFORD III DATE

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

PHONE: 703-432-3906