A03-AIRSJAFinalRedacted.pdf

Control Number: 15-C009

JUSTIFICATION AND APPROVAL

FOR OTHER LIMITED SOURCE UNDER A MULTIPLE AWARD INDEFINITE-

DELIVERY INDEFINITE-QUANTITY CONTRACT

1. Contracting Activity: U.S. Army Contracting Command

Army Contract Command – Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACC-

APG) CCAP-CCC

6001 Combat Drive

Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005

2. Description of Action: The proposed action is for a modification to Cost- Plus-Fixed-

Fee Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity Contract (IDIQ) Number W15P7T-10-D-

D421, Task Order (TO) KZ02, under the Rapid Response Third Generation (R2-3G)

Multiple Award Contract.

, for the base period and the two (2) six month option periods, and will increase the ceiling of the

TO by $1,442,475 from $17,252,768 to $18,695,243. Procurement, Army (OPA)

Appropriation and Operations and Maintenance, Army (OMA) funds will be used for this effort. Anticipated award date is expected to be 28 February 2015.

3. Description of Supplies/Services: Project Manager, Sensors-Aerial Intelligence

(PM SAI) has a requirement to support

Task Order KZ02 currently provides the support for the

. Accordingly, the number of aircraft platforms, including , supported on TO KZ02 needs to be increased by

, for a total of . It was anticipated at time of the TO award that of the would be removed from training support and undergo modification to upgrade the systems. However, direction has since been changed to provide continued support to the training mission. , , are currently l

Support for is currently provided by TO KZ02, and support for the is required. The are needed, at locations to be determined, for .

on TO KZ02.

, will be included. The overall period of performance of the base period and two option periods will not change by reason of the proposed action. The total estimated amount, including the options, is $1.44M.

4. Authority Cited: 10 U.S.C. § 2304C(b)(3) and FAR 16.505(b)(2)(i)(C), The proposed action will 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, under which that all awardees were given a fair opportunity to be considered for the original order.

5. Reason for Authority Cited:

. is currently providing the for use in and on TO KZ02. The proposed action will be executed on a sole source basis in the interest of economy and efficiency to the efforts currently on TO, which was awarded as a result of competition among all the Rapid

Response Third Generation (R2-3G) prime contractors, all of whom were given a fair opportunity to be considered for award. The contractor is already

, and will be able to expand the training and maintenance support effort to cover the additional platforms at these locations in an economical and efficient manner. , has the requisite experience to perform the required effort, in a cost effective and timely manner as needed, without disruption of the Labor categories and other resources that may not be required full time can be shared at the sites, providing cost effective support for the additional systems. Failure to have this required support in place when needed could severely impact the availability of and

(ASOs) for future resulting in

If this J&A were denied, there would be additional costs to the government of an additional beyond the I for this J&A (based on the spend plan, and an additional would be required to re-compete this effort. If this J & A effort was re-competed, another prime would need to hire l and directly results in the additional cost. As it stands, the current has the capacity to handle the workload of . Since the have proprietary data, coordination with required for additional

. It is likely that another prime would not

If not awarded, the contractor would likely use additional funds for the additional that were originally earmarked for use on the .

. If not awarded, another course of action would be to not support the maintenance at of the sites. This would result in that site to not be able to provide . If were not progressed, it would .

) to man aircraft for . The school house trains to fly

. is scheduled at on a daily basis. A interruption would result in a serious interruption of the school house and would likely result in not enough personnel trained to support flights that are supported under another contract.

The are used for both and The GPTs operate , where use . While there are some benefits to using the (repetitive use of the

), it is important to utilize the found on the also. The does not offer all the such as

. These are all critical and must know how to use them to support labor and travel base period spend plan values were used to build the for this effort. were estimated by using spend plan values. The were estimated using several factors. The three primary factors were the

6. Efforts to Obtain Competition: Market research was performed, details of which are included in paragraph 8.

7. Actions to Increase Competition: There is no requirement beyond this effort for these systems; any modified systems will be incorporated in to the E

8. Market Research: Technical experts within PM SAI reviewed the capabilities of the

R2-3G contractors and determined that is the only known source that could meet the Government’s requirements and training schedule. The current TO was recently awarded by the Army Contracting Command-Aberdeen Proving Ground via competition open to all of the R2-3G primes. Two offers were received

. The offer submitted was determined to be technically unacceptable. Accordingly, is the only source that can meet the Government’s requirement at this time. As this requirement was recently solicited, and the award made on the basis of fair opportunity, this information is considered valid as market research for this action. Market conditions remain unchanged and it is not anticipated that any other source could provide the required effort without duplication of costs and delay in training schedule. It is in the interest of economy and efficiency to award this effort to because they were awarded an order issued under the contract which provided all R2-3G contractors fair opportunity to be considered for award, IAW FAR 16.505(b)1.

9. Interested Sources: This action will not be synopsized on FedBizOpps, in accordance with FAR 5.202(a) (11).

10. Other Facts:

a. Procurement History:

b. Acquisition Data Availability: The Government possesses a Performance Work

Statement for this effort.

c. Subcontracting Competition: FAR 52.244-5, Competition in Subcontracting, was included in the current contract.

Approval

Based on the foregoing justification, I hereby approve the award for a modification to

Cost- Plus-Fixed-Fee Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity Contract Number W15P7T-

10-D-D421, Task Order (TO) KZ02, under the Rapid Response Third Generation

Multiple Award Contract. The proposed action will provide support for additional systems with on platforms and stations, for the base period and the two six month option periods, and will increase the ceiling of the TO by $1,442,475 from $17,252,768 to

$18,695,243. The proposed action will be awarded on a sole source basis pursuant to the authority of 10 U.S.C. § 2304C(b)(3), as implemented by FAR 16.505(b)(2)(i)(C) and subject to the availability of funds and provided that the services described herein have otherwise been authorized for acquisition. If the proposed contract action is not completed within 180 days from the below date, this Justification and Approval shall be returned to the Competition Advocate for revalidation. Additionally, if any changes to the requirements, basis for the justification, market conditions or increases in the estimated value of the proposed action occur at any time, the Contracting Officer shall document these changes in a memorandum and obtain review/concurrence from the

Competition Advocate.

Signature: