Posted JOFOC.doc

JUSTIFICATION FOR OTHER THAN FULL

AND OPEN COMPETITION (JOFOC)

1. IDENTIFICATION OF AGENCY AND CONTRACTING OFFICE

Agency:

Social Security Administration (SSA) Contracting Office:

Office of the Deputy Commissioner for Budget, Finance and Management (DCBFM) Office of Acquisition and Grants (OAG)

Contracting Officer:

Traci E. Leach

Title:

Maintenance Support/License Upgrades for Claritas Proprietary Software

Proposed Contractor:

Claritas, Inc.

2. NATURE OF ACTION:

The action to be approved is for a sole source, firm-fixed-price (FFP) agreement, to be formed with Claritas, Inc. This acquisition is for the maintenance and upgrades to SSA’s existing Claritas iMark software licenses.

3. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES AND ESTIMATED COST

SSA needs full service maintenance for Claritas software to provide corrections, fixes and upgrades. Upgrades allow the Government to use the latest versions of the software products and data elements as they are released. Without the upgrades, SSA would be required to purchase new licenses, at a substantial cost, each time new versions of the software products are released.

Claritas iMark Online is a remotely hosted web application, which contains Census 2000, current year census estimates, and 5-year projections of demographic information. This web application presents table reports mapped inline with SSA's DOORS (Detailed Office/Organization Resource System). It also has the capability of including Social Security beneficiary data.

4. Reserved:

This section is reserved

5. STATUTORY AUTHORITY:

41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1) -- Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements.

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.302-1 -- See paragraph 6 below for reasons for the Statutory Authority use.

6. CONTRACTOR'S UNIQUE QUALIFICATIONS:

Claritas, Inc. is the only source which can provide the required maintenance and upgrade support to the software. Claritas software is proprietary in nature and Claritas, Inc. retains exclusive rights to the source code necessary to provide fixes, corrections and updates to the existing software. An award to any other source as a replacement for Claritas software would result in substantial duplication of costs to the Government and unacceptable delays in fulfilling the Agency’s operating requirements.

7. SOLICITATION EFFORTS:

The requirement will be synopsized in the FedBizOpps as a sole source procurement in accordance with FAR 5.2. Although market research indicates that there is no other software product that will meet the agency’s requirements (see paragraph 9 below), the notice will instruct interested parties to submit a capability statement which will be considered by the agency.

8. REASONABLENESS OF COST:

The contracting officer considers the anticipated costs to the Government to be fair and reasonable and will execute a determination to that effect prior to awarding the contract.

9. MARKET RESEARCH:

Refer to paragraph 7.

10. OTHER FACTS:

None

11. LIST OF SOURCES EXPRESSING INTEREST IN THE ACQUISITION:

Refer to paragraph 7.

12. PROCUREMENT HISTORY:

Contract SS00-05-50385, including all amendments/modifications.

13. ACTION TAKEN TO REMOVE COMPETITION BARRIER:

No action was taken to remove competition barriers because Claritas, Inc. is the only source capable of providing the Claritas iMark/PrimeLocation software products.