1005-03_-_Innoslate_SW_Renewal_JA_for_signature_-_1.9.18_Redacted.pdf

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY

NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER

DAHLGREN DIVISION

6149 WELSH ROAD SUITE 203

DAHLGREN VIRGINIA 22448-5130

IN REPLY REFER TO

J&A Number: 14117

4 December 2018

JUSTIFICATION AND APPROVAL

FOR USE OF OTHER THAN FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION

JUSTIFICATION

1. Contracting Activity

The Naval Sea Systems Command, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD), Contracts Department

2. Description of the Action Being Approved

Award of a firm fixed priced contract on a sole source basis for critical software to be used by the Combat Systems

Configuration Management Branch , Naval Systems

Engineering Resource Center (NSERC), manufactured by Systems and Proposal Engineering Company, doing business as SPEC

Innovations.

3. Description of Supplies/Services

The NSWCDD requires the renewal of 60 seats of Innoslate

Enterprise Floating – 2019-2020 licenses, manufactured by

Systems and Proposal Engineering Company, doing business as

SPEC Innovations. The requested software and renewals represent the Government’s minimum requirements. The Government’s minimum needs have been verified by the certifying technical and requirements personnel. The period of performance is required to begin 15 January 2019 for 60 current licenses to ensure no break in support.

The Government’s minimum needs have been verified by the certifying technical and requirements personnel.

J&A Number: 14117

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4. Statutory Authority Permitting Other Than Full and

Open Competition

The procedures in FAR subpart 13.5 were used in accordance with

41 U.S.C. 1901.

5. Rationale Justifying Use of Cited Statutory Authority

Innoslate is a model based systems engineering tool that can model both behavioral and physical aspects of a system. It allows you to collaborate with your team, develop requirements, and create system models for all your projects on a secure network as a single solution that supports the entire systems engineering discipline. There is no need for plug-ins or multiple tools. Using Innoslate, NSWCDD teams can collaborate to work on the same project at the same time, manage requirements and analysis to modeling and simulation to verification and validation to operations and support and program management. Many systems engineers use the Naval Systems Engineering Resource Center (NSERC) for collaboration and integrated data environment capabilities utilizing this software product. This procurement is also required to enable adequate protection of valuable Navy hardware assets. Without this software and maintenance, this network infrastructure supporting thousands of end users would be at risk for failure to operate as expected and business continuity of operations could be severely impacted. This product provides ease of use to manipulate data, metrics, and reports, in comprehensive views that would take days, weeks, or hours to produce manually. This provides a cost savings for its collaborative use because it saves travel and for its automation abilities thus saving time and reducing errors that come from manual methods.

In addition, proprietary data limits competition. SPEC Innovations is the original software publisher for this proprietary software with no authorized resellers available, therefore, proprietary data limits competition.

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6. Description of Efforts Made to Solicit Offers from as

Many Offerors as Practicable

Market Research was conducted and concluded that other company’s similar products cannot meet the needs of the agency. Additional market research performed through internet searches and through direct contact with the software publisher has verified that there are no authorized resellers for this proprietary software and support.

The proposed contract was synopsized on the Federal Business

Opportunities (FEDBIZOPPS) website on 6 December 2018 and only SPEC Innovations expressed interest in this requirement.

No additional market research was conducted because it is not practicable, for the reasons discussed in paragraph 5 above, for any company other than SPEC Innovations to provide the required software and support.

7. Determination of Fair and Reasonable Costs

The Contracting Officer has determined that the anticipated cost to the Government for the software and support covered by the J&A will be fair and reasonable.

8. Actions to Remove Barriers to Competition

For the reasons set forth in Paragraph 5, Dahlgren Contract

Department has no plans at this time to compete future contracts for the type of software and support covered by this document. If another potential source emerges, Dahlgren

Contract Department will assess whether competition for future requirements is feasible.

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CERTIFICATIONS AND APPROVAL

TECHNICAL/REQUIREMENTS CERTIFICATION (FAR 6.303-2(b))

I certify that the facts and representations under my cognizance, which are included in this justification and its supporting data, are complete and accurate to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Phone No., Date

LEGAL SUFFICIENCY REVIEW (NMCARS 5206.303(90))

I have determined this justification is legally sufficient.

Phone No., Date

CONTRACTING OFFICER CERTIFICATION (FAR 6.303-2(a)(12))

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

12/10/2018

Angela Bowling, Contracting Officer, 026, Phone No., Date