A_-_Sole_Source_Justification_-_OSA.pdf

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Department of the Army Sole Source Justification for Purchases under the SAT

(Using FAR Part 13)

Purchase Request #: W26MT990451901

1. Contracting Activity: Army Contracting Command – Warren INSCOM – NGIC is the procuring activity for this action.

2. Description of the Supply or Service Purchased: The National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) has a FY19 requirement for Optical Society of America (OSA), Optics InfoBase Premium subscription. This database subscription is a critical requirement for NGIC’s work force to execute its mission and fulfill its global responsibility. This subscription enables NGIC analysts to provide multi-disciplined, all source operation intelligence. Period of performance: 1 April 2019 – 31 December 2019.

Optical Society of America 2010 Massachusetts Ave NW, Ste 10 Washington, DC 20036-1023 Cage Code: 6V403 Duns: 074825845

3. Dollar Amount: The estimated total purchase price is $23,365.00. The type of funds is Operations & Maintenance, Army (OMA).

4. Authority Cited: FAR 13.106-1(b)(1), “Soliciting from a Single Source.”

5. Reason for Authority Cited: Procurement of these services is necessary to provide open source information from a broad array of topics in lasers, optics, and electro-optics worldwide.

OSA Publishing's Digital Library offers the largest collection of peer-reviewed optics and photonics content. This cutting-edge repository includes content from OSA's prestigious journals and co-publications. OSA’s journal content offers the highest number of article citations (40%) than any other publisher in the Optics category of the 2016 Journal Citation Report® (Clarivate Analytics, 2017). With more than 350,000 articles including papers from 670 conference proceedings, OSA Publishing covers a breadth of disciplines. The pace and breadth of S&T developments in lasers, optics, and electro-optics worldwide continues to challenge the ability of S&TI analysts to forecast and identify new technological developments and understand their national security and economic implications. Full access to OSA's Optics InfoBase Premium will improve both traditional S&TI analysis and OSINT collection in lasers, optics, and electro-optics. In addition, access to data within OSA's Optics InfoBase Premium will assist to avoid disruptive technology surprise by emboldening S&T analysis, network and nodal analysis and the fusion of traditional intelligence data sources with non-traditional open-source intelligence resources. As such, it is a unique source to be used in support of NGIC requirements for the study of foreign defense systems and weapons and general military intelligence issues. OSA provides abstract and full-text access to a unique collection of information that is not available from any other source. Access to OSA Optics InfoBase Premium collection has been requested and will be utilized in NGIC’s S&T, Regional and Transnational Directorates. The Optical Society of America (OSA) is a heavily

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6. Market Research: IAW FAR part 10, market research was conducted by Brad Morris on April 3, 2018 on subject requirement under North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) Code 519130 "Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals " to determine if the items could be procured as commercial items using procedures outlined FAR Par 12. An RFI was posted to the CHESS which resulted in no responses. A Statement of Non-Availability (SONA # 216732121) was granted from CHESS. An RFI was also posted on GSA (RFQ1275750) which resulted in zero responses from interested vendors. In addition to those postings, a Sources Sought notice was posted to FedBizOpps (Notice # W26MT980581801B) which resulted in two responses. One of the responses was determined unacceptable and could not meet the requirement. The other response was from the Optical Society of America, who is the sole manufacture and provider of this requirement.

The required database subscription is available exclusively from the Optical Society of America. The Optical Society of America does not work with any authorized resellers or distributors. NGIC recommends a sole source award to the Optical Society of America. Cage Code: 6V403. They are classified as a small business under their primary NAICS code, 519130. An intent to award sole source notice will be posted to FedBizOpps.

7. The POC for this action is Doug Queheillalt, douglas.t.queheillalt.civ@mail.mil, 434-951-

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

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Contracting Officer mailto:douglas.t.queheillalt.civ@mail.mil