W15P7T_06_D_E403_KZ03_Redacted.pdf

Control No: JA-C-17-430 ManTech Advanced Systems International, Inc.

Supply/Service: Overseas Contingency Operation ISR Support

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Supply/Service: Overseas Contingency Operation ISR Support

FAR Part 6 Justification and Approval for Other than Full and Open Competition

1. Contracting Activity:

U.S. Army Contracting Command Aberdeen Proving Ground, Division C

ATTN: ACC-APG/CCAP-CCC

Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005

2. Description of Action:

Project Manager DCGS-A requests a Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF) contract modification to Task Order W15P7T-06-D-E403 KZ03 with ManTech Advanced Systems International, Inc., 12015 Lee Jackson Memorial Highway, Fairfax, VA 22033-3300. This modification will extend the period of performance (PoP) of the DCGS-A Overseas Contingency Operation ISR Support Contract from 7 August 2017 to 6 August 2018, comprised of one 6 month base period and one 6 month option period, and increase the task order ceiling from $31,626,906.03 to $45,040,802.99, an increase of $13,413,896.96. The Government will utilize Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 Other Procurement Army (OPA) funds for this effort. This increase will enable continued, uninterrupted the Overseas Contingency Operation (OCO) and overseas operation support in all locations worldwide Support to Product Manager, DCGS-A Increment 1. Separate SLINs will continue to be utilized for each type of funding.

Deputy to the Principal Assistant Responsible for Contracting at CECOM Contracting Command, approved the Acquisition the Strategic Services Sourcing Multiple Award Contract acquisition plan in accordance with DFARS 207.103(d)(i)(B) on 05 April 2005.

3. Description of Supplies/Services:

The Services provided under the contract W15P7T-06-D-E403 Task Order KZ03, provides the required Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) support services for the Distributed Common Ground System – Army (DCGS-A) Overseas Contingency Support in all locations worldwide. The OCO support requirements encompass software engineering, system fielding, Embedded Trainer (ET) and other ISR operations support for DCGS-A Family of Systems (FoS), which consist primarily of implementing, test, enhancing, and integrating existing software into the DCGS-A baseline and associated Army Intelligence Architecture objective.

The tasks requirements include: Maintain security posture, data persistence and all data ingestion modifications to the DCGS-A Fusion Brains to support on-going world-wide operations in additional to contingence support; Provide theater-wide engineering, design, and test and evaluation for software and integration with the existing DCGS-A FoS to enable ingestion, fusion, analysis, and dissemination of sensor and intelligence data throughout the Army and associated defense agencies via theater-wide and

Supply/Service: Overseas Contingency Operation ISR Support regional Fusion Brain data repositories; Provide software deployment and operation including software integration, testing and maintenance of new and enhanced capabilities into the DCGS-A architecture in support on-going operations; and provide deployable Embedded Trainers (ET) to provide DCGS-A operational knowledge, over-the-shoulder training support, Mission Command Systems capability, and ISR architecture support to Army Military Analysts in support of their operational requirements at CONUS and OCONUS locations, and the DCGS-A integration into the Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (IPB) and the Military Decision Making Processes; and DCGS-A integration with Mission Command Systems in support of the Commander.

Task Order KZ03 was offered as a fair opportunity to all seven (7) S3 prime contractors.

A single award was made to ManTech on 7 August 2015, which was determined the best value offeror after a trade-off between Technical and Cost. The task order was originally awarded for a total cost of $31,626,906.03.

It is anticipated the Level of Effort (LOE) for this extension period will be approximately 151,776 labor hours, a reduction of approximately 15% from the current task order per year LOE.

The IGCE is based on labor rates determined from historical information. The travel costs estimate was determined through analysis of historical trips, including number of people and number of days for each location. The material cost estimate was determined through analysis of historical purchases on similar task orders, and the labor mix estimate is based on historical level of effort of current and known projected level of effort. A breakdown of the details by cost element is shown below.

Cost Element Amount Notes Estimated Labor Cost Operations support services, based on an expected LOE of 151,776 CPFF Term Labor hours, estimated based on actuals.

Estimated Fixed Fee Estimated at the current task order fee- , only applied to labor cost.

Estimated ODC Cost Hazardous premiums, DBA insurance, other OCONUS support costs, estimated based on actuals.

Estimated Travel Cost Travel Costs, estimated based on JTR and actuals.

Total $ 13,413,896.96

Awarded Period of Performance: 7 August 2015 to 6 August 2017 Awarded Total Value: $31,626,906.03

Increase Period of Performance: 7 August 2017 to 6 August 2018 Total Value increase: $13,413,896.96

Supply/Service: Overseas Contingency Operation ISR Support

Total $ _45,040,802.99___

4. Authority Cited: 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(2), as implemented by FAR 6.302-2, Unusual and compelling urgency.

5. Reason for Authority Cited:

(a) Background: As described at FAR 6.302-2, when the agency’s need for the supplies or services is of such an unusual and compelling urgency that the Government would be seriously injured unless the agency is permitted to limit the number of sources from which it solicits bids or proposals, full and open competition need not be provided for.

The proposed contractor is ManTech Advanced Systems International, Inc., 12015 Lee Jackson Memorial HWY, Fairfax, VA 22033-3300. The W15P7T-06-D-E403 Task Order KZ03 was competitively solicited to all seven (7) S3 prime contractors. A single award was made to ManTech on 7 August 2015, which was determined the best value offeror after a trade-off between Technical and Cost.

DCGS-A Increment 1 is the Army’s flagship ISR Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (PED) System. It provides the Army with a capability to collaborate, synchronize and integrate organic and non-organic direct and general support collection elements with operations, and to evaluate technical data and information on behalf of a Commander. It is integrated with the Geospatial, Weather, All Source, GEOINT, SIGINT, CI/HUMINT, MASINT and Space Operations capabilities in a multi-security environments. DCGS-A contributes to visualization and situational awareness (SA), thereby enhancing tactical maneuver, maximizing combat power and enhancing the ability to operate in an unpredictable and changing environment throughout the operational spectrum. The DCGS-A Increment 1 Release 2 fielding across all Army units, Active Components (AC) or Reserve Components (RC) began in July 2016. This current fielded software baseline must be maintained and sustained until the transition of the software to Software Engineering Center (SEC) occurs in 3QFY18. This current OCO support contractor also provides the Embedded Trainers (ETs) support to the deployed units, it is a critical element to the fielding of the Release 2 software baseline which provides tremendous increase in capability over the previous v3.1.7 baseline but it is also more complex and will require the ET support to provide over the shoulder training to the Analysts and to facilitate integrating DCGS-A into the units Intelligence architecture. After the Release 2 software baseline is transitioned to SEC for lifecycle software sustainment, the remaining efforts related to the ET support and Fixed Site system integration and Information Assurance support will be procured under the follow-on contract.

The Government was forced to revise its procurement strategy due to the Fiscal Year 17 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which included major changes for DCGS-A Increment 1. The Acquisition Requirements Package (ARP) for the full and open follow-on contract for DCGS-A Increment 1 Post Deployment Support was initially drafted in

Supply/Service: Overseas Contingency Operation ISR Support continued in support of on-going Contingency and Overseas operations, otherwise there will be a break in Army intelligence operations capability that is unacceptable to the Army. In- house support would not be able to perform the required tasks due to the magnitude of the requirements, the expertise required, and insufficient manpower resources.

This requirement is urgent and compelling because loss of life will occur if the contract extension is not granted. Continuous technical support to execute tasks and requirements necessary for implementing lifecycle and software engineering services, engineering, operations, and logistics, as part of the overall Army Intelligence Architecture on the battlefield is crucial to the ongoing ISR Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination mission. Without continuation of these services, the result could be loss of life, serious injury, and/or a compromise of mission effectiveness for personnel in on-going Contingency and Overseas operations. DCGS-A, Inc. 1, provides crucial information to the Warfighter to understand the threat and synchronize intelligence in the operational environment. Without this information, the Warfighter will be unable to effectively coordinate against threats and will be much more susceptible to risk, injury, and death.

(c) Other information:

(1) As a minimum, the field supports and the Release 2 software baseline must be maintained and the high priority software bugs must be fixed to sustain ongoing Contingency Operations, the DCGS-A Fixed Sites and the Fusion Brains must be maintained to support the Army Intelligence Architecture ingesting over 700 data sources and to support deployed Tactical units for reachback intelligence support to meet Contingency Operations requirements. It is anticipated a 6 month base with a 6 month option period of performance extension, will facilitate the transition of Release 2 to SEC for lifecycle software sustainment support and the follow-on contract award for Fixed Sites and Fusion Brains support.

(2) DCGS-A is a complex system and has so many ISR capability requirements, the unique baseline capability knowledge and subject expertise have been built up for the current level of integration and capability sustainment supports, it is not feasible for a new contractor team to resume the current level of efforts without a significant learning curve and interruptions of the current operations support.

(3) Fiscal Year 17 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) language affecting DCGS- A Increment 1, to include both contract award limitations and program restructure mandates. It is intended that a full and open competition for the follow-on contract will be pursued.

(4) The DCGS-A Increment 1 Release 2 began fielding across the Army in July of 2016.

The field support must be maintained to enable the Army Intelligence operational architecture; otherwise, there will be an unacceptable break in DCGS-A capability that supports a real-world contingency operations.

Supply/Service: Overseas Contingency Operation ISR Support

Contractor Contract Number Authority Award Date Value

ManTech Advanced Systems International, Inc.

W15P7T-06-D-E403, Task Order KZ03

Fair opportunity 7 August 2015 $31,626,906.03

Competitive Status: A single award was made to ManTech Advanced Systems, which was determined the best value offeror after a trade-off between Technical and Cost. The task order was originally awarded utilizing fair opportunity procedures.

11. Technical Certification: I certify that the supporting data under my cognizance which are included in the justification are accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Date: _________________

DCGS-A Increment 1, System Engineering

12. Requirements Certification: I certify that the supporting data under my cognizance which are included in the justification are accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Date: _________________

Chief, Business Management Division

12 June 2017

13 June 2017

Supply/Service: Overseas Contingency Operation ISR Support

13. Fair and Reasonable Cost Determination: I hereby determine that the anticipated cost or price to the Government for this contract action will be fair and reasonable, based on cost/price analysis, comparison of proposed prices with Independent Government Estimate, technical evaluation, and comparison of existing contract rates and cost information negotiated and incorporated at the time of the current task order award. As a part of this basis, certified cost or pricing data will be required.

Date: _________________

Contracting Officer

14. Contracting Officer Certification: I certify that this justification is accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Date: _________________

Contracting Officer

Supply/Service: Overseas Contingency Operation ISR Support

Approval

Based on the foregoing justification, I hereby approve the award to modify the Cost Plus Fixed Fee Task Order KZ03 under Strategy Services Sources (S3) ManTech Advanced Systems International, Inc., Contract Number W15P7T-06-D-E403 for the ceiling increase of $13,413,896.96. This would increase the current ceiling from $31,626,906.03 to $45,040,802.99 which would enable the continued technical support services for PM DCGS-A from 7 August 2017 to 6 August 2018. The modification is necessary to provide Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance (ISR) support services for the Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A) Overseas Contingency Operation (OCO) and overseas operation support in all locations worldwide.. This action is authorized on an other than full and open competition basis pursuant to the authority of 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(2), as implemented by FAR 6.302-2, Unusual and compelling urgency, subject to the availability of funds, and provided that the services herein described have otherwise been authorized for acquisition. If the proposed contract action is not completed within 180 days from the date below or if there is a change to the substance of this Justification and Approval that does not meet the AFARS 5106.303-1- 90 conditions for an amended J&A, the Contracting Officer shall document these changes in a memorandum for file and obtain revalidation from the approval authority below.

Date:

Special Advocate for Competition

20 June 2017