Limiting-Competition-under-SAT_330mm_10_9_2020 Redacted.pdf

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Version – February 2017

FAR 16.505(b)(2)(i)(D) Minimum Guarantee

5. Reasons for Authority Cited: As described in FAR 13.106-1(b)(1), for purchases not exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold, Contracting Officers may solicit from one source if the Contracting Officer determines that the circumstances of the contract action deem only one source reasonably available.

was identified during the market research as being the only company capable of fulfilling this requirement. currently provides laser bore scope inspection equipment for use with 105mm, 120mm, 155mm and 290mm smooth bore cannons. This equipment is currently being used at

These systems are all capable of providing the user with erosion and material loss data, a specification that the Government is seeking with a new system to support 330mm laser bore inspection. The 290mm systems are field proven and modular in nature, easily adaptable to larger caliber cannons and were designed to be adapted for future designs of larger caliber cannon barrels, such as the 330mm.

The conversion kits to allow the currently used 290mm system on 330mm tubes need to be delivered 60 days after date of award or multiple systems of record will be impacted.

If the Government were to solicit this requirement full and open, potential new vendors would need to design, develop and test their laser system, which is estimated to take in excess of one (1) year. Using reduces the risk of the conversion kits not being delivered on schedule, as well as reducing the risk of integrating the conversion kits with existing Army-owned hardware. The primary system of record is to provide a ground-based fires capability to support joint, interagency, and multinational (JIM) multi-domain operations against peer adversary forces. This capability will allow the Army to defeat enemy Anti-Access Area Denial (A2AD) targets at strategic ranges in support of JIM operations. By increasing the range and ability to defeat A2AD targets, this reduces the risk to Soldiers’ lives, providing the ability to deny capability to the enemy without having to occupy, and this method has less long term impact for soldiers and civilians on the battlefield.

The 290mm system is portable, allowing the system to be moved to the cannon to be inspected. Due to the size of the cannon barrels, moving them would cost an estimated $7M each time they were moved.

currently produces systems that are used with the 105mm, 120mm, 155mm and 290mm smooth bore cannons, and these systems include proprietary hardware and software, to include the sensors, calibration rings, and other hardware associated with the systems. The Government does not currently possess the technical data packages (TDPs) for the equipment used for 105mm, 120mm, 155mm and 290mm laser bore scope inspections as the technology is proprietary to so they are not available for use to solicit full and open.