Summary of Justification Restricting Competition (Document 26-192)

This is a Justification Restricting Competition (J&A) document for a sole source procurement action by the Department of the Navy Office of Force Resiliency (DON OFR) and the Suicide Prevention Response Task Force (SPRTF), contracted through NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center (FLC) Norfolk. The action establishes a new requirement for suicide prevention training services to provide comprehensive curriculum and implementation support to deliver, refine, and transition a resilience skills training program for Navy and Marine Corps personnel. The contract will be awarded to SafeSide Prevention, LLC, as prime contractor, supported by the University of Rochester (UoR) School of Medicine as subcontractor. The anticipated period of performance is a 12-month base period beginning July 20, 2026, followed by a 12-month option year, with decisions regarding full or partial implementation across the DON to be made during the option period.

The statutory authority for this sole source action is 41 U.S.C. 1901 (Simplified Acquisition Procedures). The justification establishes that SafeSide Prevention, LLC, and UoR are the sole sources capable of executing this requirement due to their unique expertise as the original developers and technical custodians of this specific curriculum, which was derived from a ten-year research and development initiative previously funded by the Department of the Air Force. The J&A notes that pursuing competitive procurement would require duplicating the original R&D investment (estimated in millions of dollars), result in unacceptable delays of multiple years, and prevent the DON from meeting Secretary of the Navy mandates to deploy a validated force-resiliency pilot by the end of fiscal year 2026. The Contracting Officer has determined the anticipated cost to be fair and reasonable. No future competition is planned unless another potential source emerges.