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JUSTIFICATION FOR AN EXCEPTION TO FAIR OPPORTUNITY 'V~

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IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING JUSTIFICATION, AS Procuring Activity Competition Advocate, SPAW ARSYSCEN Atlantic, , I HEREBY

APPROVE THE EXCEPTION TO FAIR OPPORTUNITY (FOE) PURSUANT TO FAR 16.505(b)(2)(i) (B) Only One Source

CONTRACT NUMBER(S) 1 CRM RESERVATION# 1 TASK ORDER (TO) NUMBER(S) I ESTIMATED DOLLAR VALUE

N65236-13-D-4920 CRM-18-00074 TBD $2,956,935.34

1. AGENCY AND CONTRACTING ACTIVITY. Department of the Navy, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWARSYSCEN) Atlantic.

2. NATURE/DESCRIPTION OF ACTION(S).

This is a fair opportunity exception to negotiate a task order with Vencore under the Unrestricted Decision Superiority (DS) Pillar multiple award contract (MAC). The proposed contract action includes a period of performance of I 0 months from I Dec 2017 to 30 Sep 2018.

3. DESCRIPTION OF SUPPLIES/SERVICES.

Services include systems engineering, technical, and management suppo1t services to the Joint Services Integration Lab (JSIL).

Vencore wilI provide engineering and testing subject matter expertise in the area of Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES), Classified and Unclassified Mobility, Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) Security Compliance Checker (SCC), and Joint Planning and Execution Services (JPES). Expertise in the areas of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Engineering, Cloud Computing, Wireless Networking, Application Development (i.e, mobile apps, work/process'automation), Cybersecurity, System Certification, Verification and Testing, requirements management & traceability, software development and testing, quality assurance, mobility and vulnerability testing are required. The proposed task order will address emergent program requirements critical to the success of Department of Defense (DoD) Mobility Program.

4. IDENTIFICATION OF EXCEPTION TO FAIR OPPORTUNITY.

D (a) The agency's need for supplies or services is so urgent that providing a fair opportunity would result in unacceptable delays.

[ZI (b) Only one awardee is capable of providing the supplies or services at the level of quality required because the supplies or services ordered are unique or highly specialized.

D ( c) The order must be issued on a sole-source basis in the interest of economy and efficiency, because it is a logical follow-on to an order already issued under the contract, provided that al! awardees were given a fair opportunity to be considered for the original order.

D (d) It is necessary to place an order to satisfy a minimum guarantee.

JUSTIFICATION:

Vencore has been supp011ing the Defense Information Systems Agency (D!SA) Integrated Project Team (!PT) since 2012. Vencore is the only contractor which has the expertise to complete the integration of Mobility efforts including the Early Detection Carrier Outage Tool currently under development. Vencore already has developed the crowd sourcing platform for SPA WARSYSCEN Atlantic to use when providing this capability to the customer. In addition, Vencore is the only contractor that possesses niche expertise critical in the development of SCAP SCC. SCC is used to perform compliance verification using ·SCAP content, and authenticated vulnerability scanning using Open Vulnerability Assessment Language (OVAL) content. SPAW ARSYSCEN Atlantic is in the middle of developing the latest version of SCAP (version 5.0) to be used by thousands of DoD users. Also, Vencore is the only contractor that possesses system engineering knowledge of the Net-Centric Enterprise Service (NCES) virtualized hosting solution for Enterprise Services and the associated System Administration Standardized Infi·astructure Management (SIM) Tool currently in use at the JSIL. This open-sourced monitoring tool was developed by V encore and provides a more robust interface that improves usability, efficiency, and error checking and correcting through automated scanning of the entire network. Consequently, Vencore subject matter expertise is needed to complete the next version of the tool and provide a successful transition to the Government engineering team.

IMPACT: If not approved, . This FOE wilI provide continuity of services during the transition period to the competitive action that will satisfy future JSIL support requirements.

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