TAB 5 - FDR 01540 Scanners LSJ_Redacted.pdf

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY

DLA CONTRACTING SERVICES OFFICE – NEW CUMBERLAND

5404 J AVENUE, BUILDING 404

NEW CUMBERLAND, PENNSYLVANIA 17070-5059

JUSTIFICATION AND APPROVAL

FOR OTHER THAN FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION

1. IDENTIFICATION OF THE AGENCY AND THE CONTRACTING ACTIVITY:

Requiring Activity:

DLA J67 Document Services Equipment Management Solutions (J67E) 1641 Morris Street Building K-BB Norfolk, VA 23511 Ella P. Ballard Tel: 757-278-8216 Email: Ella.Ballard@dla.mil

Contracting Activity:

DLA Contracting Services Office – P New Cumberland 5404 J Avenue, Building 404 New Cumberland, Pennsylvania POC: Chad Parent Tel: (717)770-8665 Email: chad.parent@dla.mil

2. NATURE AND/OR DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTION BEING REQUESTED:

DLA seeks to limit a procurement to a specific name brand product; specifically, Granit 1991 Barcode Scanners (1991iXR-3-DLA-N) manufactured by Honeywell.

3. A DESCRIPTION OF THE SUPPLIES AND SERVICES REQUIRED TO MEET

THE AGENCY’S NEEDS/ESTIMATED DOLLAR AMOUNT:

DLA requires 400 Granit 1991 Barcode Scanners (1991iXR-3-DLA-N) for use on the DLA Warehouse Management System (WMS) Distribution Standard System (DSS) at an estimated cost of .

4. IDENTIFICATION OF STATUTORY AUTHORITY PERMITTING OTHER

THAN FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION:

41 U.S.C. § 1901

5. DEMONSTRATION THAT THE PROPOSED CONTRACTOR’S UNIQUE

QUALIFICATIONS OR THE NATURE OF THE ACQUISITION REQUIRES

USE OF THE CITED AUTHORITY:

DLA/DOD supply and distribution process is barcode intensive, and DLA utilizes thousands of barcode printers in order to maintain current operations.

DLA requires networked barcode printers for the WMS mainframe print environment that communicate using Intermec Programming Language (IPL). This is proprietary language owned by Intermec.

• Market research shows that only the Intermec PD43, part number D43AG3100010201, can correctly print the DSS WMS labels.

• This model has firmware specific to the DLA WMS.

• Without this model-specific firmware, labels pulled from the system would be incorrectly incorrectly formatted, causing inventory control issues or incorrect shipping destinations.

• This specific firmware will not work on other barcode printers.

Thus, DLA will limit this action to only Intermec PD43 (PD43AG3100010201) barcode printers.

6. DESCRIPTION OF EFFORTS MADE TO ENSURE THAT OFFERS ARE

SOLICITED FROM AS MANY POTENTIAL SOURCES AS IS PRACTICABLE:

Market research was performed via SAM.GOV and GSA Advantage on March 30, 2022, for the Honeywell Granit 1991iXR-3-DLA-N. Only one small business vendor could provide the scanners on GSA

To receive the most competition, a Request for Quote (RFQ) will be posted to SAM.GOV as a small business set aside for 5 days.

7. DETERMINATION BY THE CONTRACTING OFFICER THAT THE

ANTICIPATED COST TO THE GOVERNMENT REPRESENTS THE BEST

VALUE TO THE GOVERNMENT BASED ON RECOMMENDED ACTION:

Market research showed a comparable Zebra DS3678-SR Barcode ultra-rugged wireless scanner costs $681.36. In comparison, market research quotes received for this action were received for this action were well within a competitive range for the Honeywell Granit Scanners.

Based on this information, the Contracting Officer anticipates the pricing received will be fair and reasonable and will represent the best value to the Government.

8. DESCRIPTION OF THE MARKET RESEARCH CONDUCTED AND THE

RESULTS OR A STATEMENT OF THE REASON MARKET RESEARCH WAS

NOT CONDUCTED:

Market research was conducted by utilizing white pages, brochures and technical manuals found on the following websites: https://zebra.com and https://sps.honeywell.com. Zebra is the only comparable scanner to the required Honeywell Granit scanners. Per the resources available on these websites, none of the scanners available via competing vendors support the current PCL:IPL that is necessary to operate utilizing the current software.

9. ANY OTHER FACTS SUPPORTING THE USE OF OTHER THAN FULL AND

OPEN COMPETITION.

None.

10. A LISTING OF THE SOURCES, IF ANY, THAT EXPRESSED, IN WRITING, AN

INTEREST IN THE FUTURE ACQUISITION:

This Request for Information (RFI) posted to SAM.GOV on March 31, 2022 thru April 7, 2022. The following small business vendors are interested in the acquisition:

Identify LLC 26 E Swamp RD Doylestown, Pennsylvania 18901-3942

KMASK Group 206 W Water ST Elmira, New York 14901-2913

Amlon Industries 254 Helicopter CIR Corona, California 92880-2531

Synchronized Logistics Solutions 1916 N Edison ST Arlington, Virginia 22207-1940

AITA Technologies 825 Georges RD 3RD Floor North Brunswick, New Jersey 08902-3357

Eagle Services Inc 12095 Thames Place Cincinnati, Ohio 45241-6081

Product Identification and Processing Systems 10 Midland AVE STE M-02 Port Chester, New York 10573-5911

11. STATE THE ACTIONS, IF ANY, THE AGENCY MAY TAKE TO REMOVE OR

OVERCOME ANY BARRIERS THAT PRECLUDE THE AGENCY FROM

MEETING FUTURE REQUIREMENTS FOR COMPETITION:

DLA is in the process of actively, systematically launching a new WMS that will allow commercial off the shelf devices to correctly scan the various barcodes. From the onset it was known that launching this new system is a sizable undertaking and was expected to take several years to implement. Additional setbacks due to COVID-related delays have unfortunately extended that original timeline. Currently, the target completion date set for some time in 2025.

12. CERTIFICATIONS:

Requirement/Technical Certification:

I hereby certify that the support data provided for which I am responsible, and which form a basis for this justification are complete and accurate.