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SOLE SOURCE JUSTIFICATION

MANDATORY TEMPLATE FOR FEDERAL PROCUREMENTS UNDER THE SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION THRESHOLD

1. Estimated Dollar Value:

2. Anticipated Period of Performance:

12 week ARO

3. Does the anticipated Period of Performance include option years? If no, explain.

No. This is a supply with no anticipated need of more.

4. Sources Sought Notice posted to Contract Opportunities and attached to this document?

Yes No

5. Market Research conducted and attached to this document? If not, explain.

Yes.

6. Is this a new requirement or a follow-on to an expiring award?

New requirement Follow-on to an expiring award

7. Describe the requirement. Please note that the requirement is the minimum acceptable specification or capability, and is not necessarily the best in the industry. Please note whether any additional follow-on work is anticipated in response to the current proposed effort.

Pedometers and halters for activity and behavior monitoring for ruminant research. The pedometers and halters must provide specific, per-minute data for research dairy cattle; effectively obtain ingestive and rumination behaviors; effectively obtain drinking versus eating behavior; provide detailed analysis of lying, standing, walking, and lameness behavior; provide pressure, acceleration, and temperature sensing; capture high-resolution raw data logging and real-time analysis at 10 Hertz resolution; provide full raw data accessibility via built-in storage device;

provide wireless transmission of behavior summaries; and provide options for user-defined post-processing of measured data.

8. List the proposed vendor and contact information.

ITIN+HOCH GmbH Mattias Hock info@fuetterungstechnik.ch 0041 79 674 75 76 Laubibergstrasse 65 4410 Liestal Switzerland

9. Describe why the proposed vendor is the only vendor from which the requirement can be obtained. Examples of acceptable justifications include but are not limited to: sole manufacturer and seller, adherence to warranty provisions, urgency, etc. If other vendors can provide similar products or services, describe why they cannot meet our particular requirement.

RumiWatch (produced by ITIN+HOCH GmbH) is an automated system for activity and behavior monitoring of ruminants for research. The equipment is optimal for research due to it specificity, giving per minute data, compared to neck-mounted accelerometers that provide summed behavior over an hour or more basis, depending on the system. Currently, visual observation is used for feeding behavior measurements routines in research over 5-minute intervals.

ITIN+HOCH GmbH is the sole vendor from which we are able to obtain RumiWatch halters and pedometers. The time interval of measurements provided is required to obtain the necessary feeding behavior data and incorporate into predictive models to improve precision nutrition feeding.

10. Certification:

I hereby certify that the information provided above is accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Technical Representative Date

11. CO Certification:

I hereby determine that the circumstances of this procurement action deem only one source reasonably available. Also, the quoted price is determined to be fair and reasonable as documented on the SAP e-File Checklist and Award Summary.

Contracting Officer Date

12. Level Above the CO Approval:

I hereby determine that the circumstances of this procurement action deem only one source reasonably available. Also, the quoted price is determined to be fair and reasonable as documented on the SAP e-File Checklist and Award Summary.

Supervisory Contracting Officer Date