Sole Source Justification At or Below SAT.pdf

Source Selection Information See FAR 2.101 and 3.104

JUSTIFICATION FOR SOLE SOURCE (Simplified Acquisitions - MPT to <$250K)

Document number: PR#1301155891

The supplies or services described herein are being solicited on a sole source basis and competition is precluded for reasons indicated below. There are no substitutes available for the supplies or services.

Check One:

Service:

Contractor:

Contractor Address:

Contractor POC:

Phone #:

Email:

Cage Code/DUNS:

Supply:

Restricted to the following source. If a sole source manufacturer distributes via dealers, ALSO provide dealer information.)

Original Manufacturer Name: BetterCloud Enterprise Manufacturer:

Manufacturer POC: Haley Mathis / John Campbell Manufacturer Phone #: 888-999-0805 Manufacturer Address: 330 Seventh Ave., 14th floor, New York NY 10001 Dealer/Rep: The Daston Corporation Dealer/Rep Address Phone No. 19 E. Market St. #LL01 / 703-963-5036 Email: Adam.ulan@daston.com

Description of the supplies or services required, the estimated price/cost, and required delivery date.

The Enterprise Services Department is responsible for managing and providing licensed software solutions to facilitate the success of faculty and midshipmen. BetterCloud provides a software-as-a-services solution that can detect, alert and remediate policy violations as it relates to Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for data stored in the Google workspace environment at USNA.

The service or material listed on PR#1301155891 Enterprises Subscription source action to be awarded as a purchase order to the Daston Corporation. The placement of a firm, fixed price order is anticipated.

The current purchase order for this subscription was awarded on a limited source basis to The Daston Corporation.

Currently this subscription is being serviced through purchase order # N0018923P0339 and was previously in 2022, 2021 and 2020 under Daston Corp. The current purchase order expires on 7 June 2023. Daston is the incumbent vendor for this requirement and has successfully delivered these licenses to the Naval Academy for the last four (4) years. In uccessfully supported such for the last four (4) years. Because Daston also provides the Google Workspace licenses that the BetterCloud licenses are integrated with, Daston is able to continue to deliver these licenses at the lowest price and lowest risk to USN.

Source Selection Information See FAR 2.101 and 3.104

Describe in detail why only this source can furnish the requirements to the exclusion of other sources.

(what specific characteristics of the supplies or services limit the availability to a sole source (e.g., unique features, function of the item, etc.)?)

The program currently in place was built by The Daston Corp. utilizing the BetterCloud Enterprise software replacement of all associated software and reworking the current system. The USNA has been utilizing this system since its inception four (4) years ago with outstanding service and support. This action would result in USNA incurring an unnecessary financial burden and would create a gap in Data Leakage Prevention Protection.

The required BetterCloud Enterprise is specific to one manufacturer that is required by the United States Naval Academy (USNA) Information Technology Services Division (ITSD). BetterCloud is the only product that se monitoring, control, and reporting while simultaneously providing system administration functions through the

The BetterCloud licenses are tied into configurations for the Naval Google Workspace accounts that Daston also holds the purchase order and provides support for.

Both Google Workspace and Bettercloud are tied together via customized configurations and the same vendor needs to be delivering both products.

The BetterCloud software-based actions empower the USNA to quickly remediate policy violations with the capability for one-offs as well as repetitive bulk change features. BetterCloud combines problem detectors with automated workflows enabling teams to run custom sequence actions across various and multiple applications.

This software represents the minimum requirements of the government. The estimated price is $119,776.00 with a required performance period of 12 months

BetterCloud Enterprise Software provides hundreds of unique actions including many not available in the supported native application, Google Workspace, which include Data Leakage Prevention capabilities required to prevent spillage of Personally Identifiable Information (PII). Upon original purchase order award, no other company offered the capabilities that BetterCloud does.

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COMPLETE AND ACCURATE TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE. I UNDERSTAND THAT THE

PROCESSING OF THIS SOLE SOURCE JUSTIFICATION PRECLUDES THE USE OF FULL AND OPEN

COMPETITION.

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I HEREBY DETERMINE THAT THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE CONTRACT ACTION DEEM ONLY ONE

SOURCE REASONABLY AVAILABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i).

Contracting Officer Signature Date

NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center, Norfolk Contracting Department

USNA, ITSD Associate Director, Enterprise Services

Date2_af_date: 5/1/24