Justification for an Exception to Fair Opportunity FAR Part 16 AFC Ajudicated (Redacted)_Redacted.pdf

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Justification for an Exception to Fair Opportunity Under FAR 16.505(b)(2)

Contracting Activity: Department of the Army, Army Contracting Command-Redstone Arsenal(ACC-RSA), CCAM-MLP, Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898-5000..

Description of Action: The U.S. Army Aviation and Missiles Command (AMCOM) G-3 requests approval to award a task order modification to task order W31P4Q-21-F-0333, non-competitively, to AXIENT LLC (formerly Quantitec), 360A Quality Circle, Suite 100, Huntsville, Alabama 35806,Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) Code: 0S9B5, under GSA�s One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS) Unrestricted Multiple Award Contract (MAC), Pool 1. This contract was awarded competitively as a hybrid Time and Material (T&M) and Fixed Price effort (FP). The request is for approval to issue a new contract modification to increase the period of performance (PoP) by 1 year that includes a six (6) month base and an additional six (6) option, from 24 March 2025 to 23 March 2026, pursuant to FAR Subpart 16.505(b)(2)(i)(C) and to authorize a corresponding increase in ceiling of from to

. The funding available for this continued effort will be fiscal year 2025 Operation and Maintenance, Army (O&M) funds.

Description of Supplies/Services: The AMCOM G-3 mission is to enable AMCOM organizations with a work environment that minimizes the environmental footprint that houses all employees in quality facilities. The AMCOM G-3 serves as the primary staff action office supporting the synchronization and coordination of all AMCOM directed missions and support requirements. The G-3 mission consists of the Futures, Strategy and Concepts Division; Airworthiness and Quality Management Division; Current Operations and Readiness Division; Organizational Inspection Program and the Corrosion Program. AMCOM G-3 serves as the principal staff to focus on process improvement to Decrease Soldier Burden, Improve Operational Availability, Reduce Logistics Footprint, Enhance Safety, decrease Life Cycle Costs and enable Expeditionary Aviation Forces. The total estimated cost of the six-month extension and option period is .

above-mentioned facts, it is not feasible to utilize another source for this PoP extension since only Axient personnel have the immediate in-depth knowledge and experience necessary to meet the TO requirements in the time available. The current contract expires 23 March 2025. There are no efforts to obtain competition for this extension at the current time. A Request for Information (RFI) was published on 06 June 2024 for the follow-on requirement under the Expedited Professional and Engineering Support Services (EXPRESS) program. Eight (8) EXPRESS Technical Domain primes provided a response.

a. Effective competition. The re-compete will be Full & Open Competition. Under FAR 5.202(a) (6) and FAR 16.505(a)(1), this modification action is exempt from pre-award synopsis requirements.

b. Subcontracting competition. Since this is a modification to an existing Part 16 task order, all contract clauses currently in the base task order will apply to this modification.

7. Actions to Increase Competition: The follow-on TO CRP was accepted by ACC-RSA on 05 June 2024 and will be competitively awarded as Full & Open Competition under the EXPRESS Program to provide technical support to AMCOM G-3. The ACC-RSA anticipates the follow-on Task Order to be awarded by 18 June 2025. This proposed action will result in a 1 year PoP six-month base and six-month option, with the incumbent to allow continued support, without a break in service, to AMCOM G-3 under the OASIS platform.

8. Market Research: In accordance with FAR 10.002, as described above in paragraph 6, market research was conducted for the proposed follow-on EXPRESS task order.

Based on that market research, the Contracting Officer signed the Market Research Report/Commerciality Determination (MRR/CD) on 11 December 2024 for the follow-on.

Because of the brief nature of this proposed modification, no separate market research was conducted.

9. Other Facts:

a Procurement history. Procurement history. The original task order, resulting from request for proposal W31P4Q-20-R-009, was competitively awarded using Unrestricted Multiple Award Contract (MAC), Pool 1 on 24September 2021 for three (3) years through 23 September 2024 to Quantitech LLC (now Axient), CAGE Code 0S9B5, with a total ceiling of An Exception to Fair Opportunity was processed to exercise FAR 52.217-8, Option to Extend Services, extending the PoP of the Task Order six (6) months from 24 September 2024 to 23 March 2025 and a ceiling increasing the ceiling by from to .

to This action is taken as an exception to fair opportunity pursuant to 10 U.S.C. § 3406(c)(3), as implemented by FAR 16.505(b)(2)(i) (C), in the interest of economy and efficiency because it is a logical follow-on to an order already issued under the contract that all awardees were given a fair opportunity to be considered for under the original order. This action is subject to availability of funds, provided that the services and property herein described have otherwise been authorized for acquisition.

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