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JUSTIFICATION AND APPROVAL

FOR USE OF OTHER THAN FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION

JUSTIFICATION

1. Contracting Activity

Southwest Regional Maintenance Center (SWRMC), San Diego, California, Contracts Department (Code 400).

2. Description of the Action Being Approved

Award an Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract on a sole source basis to Rolls-Royce Solutions America, Inc.

(hereafter “RRSA”), 39525 MacKenzie Dr, Novi, MI 48377 as the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) for the global engineering and technical assistance, emergent repairs, parts and training related to the support of the INDEPENDENCE (LCS-2) variant class of the Littoral Combat Ship’s (LCS) Main Propulsion Diesel Engine (MPDE) and Ship Service Diesel Generator (SSDG).

3. Description of Supplies/Services

SEA 21/Commander, Navy Regional Maintenance Center (CNRMC) is tasked with ensuring that individual ship systems are maintained at the highest operational readiness and to sustain the ships at peak capability through their service life. Two of the critical systems onboard the US Navy’s LCS-2 class ship are the RRSA MPDE and the SSDG.

This mission essential equipment is crucial to meet fleet schedules and operational readiness objectives for deployment and performance of the LCS mission. The proposed contract action will acquire engineering/technical assistance, emergent repairs, parts, and training related to the RRSA MPDEs and SSDGs on the LCS-2 class ships by the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), Rolls Royce Solutions America (RRSA).

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY

SOUTHWEST REGIONAL MAINTENANCE CENTER

3755 BRINSER ST STE 1

SAN DIEGO, CA 92136-5299

J&A Number: N55236220015 Code: SWRMC 410B

J&A Number: N55236220014

RRSA is the OEM, and thus maintains the in-depth technical knowledge and detailed design and operation information, which includes drawings, procedures, specifications, and replacement parts required for repair, refurbishment, maintenance, and training on the MPDE and SSDG. MPDEs and SSDGs are mission critical and essential to the operation of the LCS-2 class ships.

Without these systems operating properly, these ships will not be available for deployment. While the Navy possesses limited technical data necessary to contract with another source to perform basic repairs and maintenance, only RRSA possesses the specialized expertise and complete technical data necessary to provide the full scope of repairs and training on the MPDEs and SSDGs. Obtaining support directly from the OEM with access to its replacement components and parts on the MPDEs and SSDGs is required for repair, refurbishment, and maintenance of the MPDEs and SSDGs to allow for the continuation of the highest possible reliability and effectiveness.

here are currently Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity Multiple Award Contracts (IDIQ-MACs) for LCS maintenance and modernization that provide life-cycle support using the shipyard as the prime contractor and the OEM as a subcontractor. Although these vehicles are in place, there continues to be a need for a direct contract vehicle to the OEM for specific engineering/technical assistance, and equipment and components that would provide greater accountability, flexibility and rapid responsiveness to time sensitive emergent maintenance (EM) repairs required outside of a planned repair availability, in order to meet operational readiness.

required OEM assistance vice internal technical assistance from an ISEA or other government personnel. The support, training, and material provided through this effort will be performed only when OEM assistance is required. The support provided by the OEM is vital to ensuring timely and expert technical response to critical equipment failures and providing necessary training required to support future maintenance/repair strategies.

Establishing support contracts directly with the OEM is expected to reduce EM repair response (remote or on-site) by eliminating the private shipyard as the intermediary and setting EM response requirements not currently stated in the life-cycle support contracts. This contract structure will incorporate negotiated labor and material prices, resulting in faster estimates and analyses to support execution and increasing fidelity of costs. This will significantly reduce processing time between CASREP notification and OEM support. Current “As Is” contracting processes do not support the Navy’s deployment mission requirements. The timeline provided represents historical data from numerous LCS deployments from 2013 through 2021. These contracting methods to obtain the required OEM support average from CASREP notification to technician on the deck plate.

The ship platforms on which RRSA MPDEs and SSDGs are currently installed are either presently deployed or will be part of upcoming surge deployments. Fleet deployments include the LCS-2 class ships to perform a vital role as a fast, agile, mission-focused platform designed for operation in near-shore environments yet capable of open-ocean operation. As designed, its missions include the ability to defeat asymmetric threats such as mines, quiet diesel submarines and fast surface craft.

When the LCS platform is unavailable due to failed MPDEs and SSDGs, any independent, local operations or deployed missions must be re-assigned to other platforms resulting in multi-tasking of those platforms, which may not have the requisite capabilities to adequately perform LCS missions, thereby degrading the Fleet capabilities. RRSA’s support is required to expeditiously remedy these problems to support critical ship schedules and deployments. A contract with RRSA will reduce response time for emergent repairs and will enable LCS-2 class ships to deploy faster.

For the reasons discussed above, only RRSA can provide the necessary support.

6. Description of Efforts Made to Solicit Offers from as Many Offerors as Practicable

The proposed contract was synopsized on the SAM website on 09 Dec 2021 and no other companies expressed an interest in this requirement. No additional market research was conducted because it is not practicable, for the reason discussed in paragraph 5 above, for any other company other than RRSA to provide the required supplies and services.

A waiver of the sources sought notice requirement set forth under DFARs PGI 206.302-1 was approved on 14 September 2021. A request for information (RFI) was sent to the OEM prior to the sources sought notice waiver being approved.

7. Determination of Fair and Reasonable Costs

The Contracting Officer will ensure the anticipated cost to the Government for the supplies/services covered by this J&A will be fair and reasonable. The Contracting Officer's determination of fair and reasonable price will be based on price and cost analyses in accordance with FAR 15.404-1 Proposal Analysis techniques.

8. Actions to Remove Barriers to Competition

The MPDEs and SSDGs are mission critical systems that require support directly from the OEM. For the reasons set forth in Paragraph 5, Southwest Regional Maintenance Center has no plans at this time to compete future contracts for the types of supplies/services covered by this document.