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Brand Name Justification

AGENCY AND CONTRACTING ACTMTY:

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Contracting Division 490 E. Moore Drive, Bldg. 892, Suite 130

Maxwell AFB Gunter Annex, AL 36114

Regulation and/or Authority: FAR 13.S(a)

Justification/rationale required for proposed orders or BPSs with an estimated value exceeding the micro-purchase threshold, but not exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold, the ordering activity contracting officer shall document the basis for restricting consideration to an item peculiar to one manufacturer:

The specific reason for restricting competition is that the Aviation Resource Management System

(ARMS) Program Management Office (PMO) currently utilizes the proprietary TIBCO Ad Hoc

Reporting Tool software within the ARMS. The ARMS PMO requires continued use of the software and

Premium Support services to support development, test, and production environments. The ARMS functionality contributes significantly to the HAF/A30 mission and relies on the embedded TIBCO

Jaspersoft Ad Hoc Reporting Tool software and support to accomplish that functionality. This software is embedded in the ARMS application at the server level (web-based) and is available to AF users world wide to accomplish their flying mission.

The ARMS has relied on the TIBCO Jaspersoft software and support since it was determined that

Jaspersoft capabilities provided the best solution to meet the Business Intelligence needs within ARMS.

This was originally procured on 29 September 2014 via order number FA8771-14-F-1004 under NAICS code 511210. The software is embedded in the ARMS functionality and cannot be removed without rendering ARMS inoperable. It was a significant development effort to embed the software capabilities into ARMS and it would require an equally significant effort to remove the software capabilities. The

ARMS relies on the TIBCO Jaspersoft license and support subscriptions to remain operational, as continued operation without the subscriptions would violate product usage agreements.

Estimated Dollar Value:

Anticipated Delivery Date: 29 March 2020

Anticipated Contract Periods ofPerformance/Costs: Contract Period of Performance (PoP): The contract period should consist of a Base Year and (4) Option Years as detailed below.

A description of the market research conducted among schedule holders and the results or a statement of the reason market research was not conducted:

In accordance with FAR 10.002, market research was conducted to identify any other sources for this acquisition. Jaspersoft customer scores for market understanding which include ease of use, support for a

Base

Option Year 1

Option Year 3

Option Year 4 range of complex types of analysis, and breadth of use across analytics capabilities can be located in

Gartner research titled, Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms, published 23

Feb 2015.

Additionally, multiple articles were reviewed to compare various Business Intelligence (Bl) tools for

2018 and 2019. While the top selection varied between evaluators, Jaspersoft was always mentioned as one of the leaders in the industry and no clear winner was consistently chosen by a majority of the evaluators reviewed. Jaspersoft, like all BI vendors, was highlighted for specific product strengths and weaknesses.

The market research also compared some Open Source products such as BIRT, Knime, Metabase, and even Jaspersoft non-enterprise editions. While all products were rated well, the lack of software support and the scaled capabilities ruled them out as possible replacement tools. TIBCO Jaspersoft's Enterprise edition of the Ad Hoc Reporting Tool and the existing inclusion into the ARMS, makes it the only choice to continue to support the ARMS Ad Hoc Reporting requirements.

The TIBCO Jaspersoft brand is the only brand solicited in accordance with Section V; however, this effort will be posted and synopsized on GSA eBuy. This effort will be a brand name requirement for

TIBCO Jaspersoft software With ARMS PMO support, vendor quotes will be evaluated before award, and the total package will be reviewed by the Air Force Contracting Officer to ensure all product pricing is fair and reasonable, meets the governments needs and award in within the best interest of the

Government. The Contracting Officer will conflfill the prices to be fair and reasonable by comparing the proposed prices with the Independent Government Cost Estimate (IGCE), historic pricing, comparison of proposed pricing to prices previously paid on other similar contracts and comparison of current pricing for similar products. Additionally, the ARMS PMO will complete a Technical Evaluation on all vendor quotes to ensure they meet the specified requirements.

Intellipeak Solutions Inc., a Veteran-Owned Small Business and SBA 8(a) program participant, was awarded the current ARMS support contract (FA8771-19-C0004) with a Period of Performance from 28

March2019 to 28 March2020

Evidence that any supporting data that is the responsibility of technical or requirements personnel

(e.g., verifying the government's minimum needs or requirements or other rationale for limited sources) and which form a basis for the justification have been certified as complete and accurate by the technical or requirements personnel:

I certifythatthe requirement outlined in this justification is accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge.

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Stephen J. Stockton

ARMS Deputy Program Manager

'Ire ordering activity contracting officer's certification that the justification is accurate and complete to the best ofthe contracting officer's knowledge and belief:

Icertifythatthe requirement outlined in this justification are accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge.

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Britney B. Jenkins

Contracting Officer