Redacted Justification and Approval_Wavemaker Hardware.pdf

This is a Justification and Approval (J&A) document for other than full and open competition from the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division (NSWCCD) to award a sole-source contract to Astrion Group, the exclusive partner of Edinburgh Designs, Ltd. The procurement is for 240 H1 Dual Force Transducer Cards, 120 G14 CAN Converter Cards, and a new electrical enclosure panel to replace obsolete hardware on the Maneuvering and Seakeeping (MASK) Basin wavemaker.

The contract will be firm-fixed-price, with Edinburgh Designs serving as the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM). The contractor will design and fabricate one new enclosure panel, test it at their facility, ship it to NSWCCD, and oversee installation and testing. After government acceptance, NSWCCD will fabricate the remaining 26 panels. Edinburgh Designs is cited as the only viable source due to their proprietary rights and intimate knowledge of the MASK Wavemaker system they originally designed in 2013. Replacing the system with a different vendor would cost significantly more and require approximately one year of facility downtime, while this targeted hardware replacement will only require three weeks of downtime and cost approximately $370,000. The acquisition will be funded in FY25 under NISE funding.