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Task Order Request W56HZV-12-VD-002

W56HZV-09-A-A905/0012

CMO Control #:12-197

Department of the Army Limited Source Justification

1. Contracting Activity: Army Contracting Command – Warren (ACC-WRN) is the procuring activity for this action.

2. Description of Action: This procurement will result in a new non-competitive task order 0012 under the ACC-WRN Omnibus III Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) W56HZV-09-A-A905 with Camber Corporation for acquisition of services for the US Army Small Arms Readiness Evaluation Teams (SARET) program managed by the TACOM LCMC Integrated Logistics Support Center (ILSC). The task order will be a firm-fixed-price, level-of-effort term contract type. The proposed action is valued at approximately $25.9 million for a six month base period (“Base Period”- 27 September 2012 through 26 March 2013) and $25.9 million for a six month option period (“Option Period”- 27 March 2013 through 26 September 2013) totaling $51.8 million. Fiscal Year (FY) 12 Operation and Maintenance, Army (OMA) funds will be used for this effort.

3. Description of the Supply or Service Purchased: Under proposed task order 0012, to Camber Corporation BPA W56HZV-09-A-A905, the Army is acquiring the services of inspection and repair personnel to perform visual inspection, gauging, function checks, and repair services for a six month Base Period for 235,017 hours of work with an Option Period for an additional 235,017 hours of work. Up to sixteen, eight-person SARET teams will work on a wide range of small arms weapons and up to seven, ten-person teams will work on optics systems associated with small arms.

Additional personnel will address other tasks such as unique identifier labelings, Bible verse removal, aviation helmet RESET, warehousing, and various supply activities.

4. Authority Cited: 40 U.S.C. 501 and FAR 8.405-6, Limited Sources Justification and Approval. This acquisition is conducted under the authority of the Multiple Award Schedule Program. The following justification is cited: “Only one source is capable of providing the supplies or services required at the level of quality required because the supplies or services are unique or highly specialized” FAR 8.405-6 (a)(1)(i)(B)”.

In accordance with DFARS 208.405-70(b), the Government hereby determines that in addition to FAR 8.405-6(a)(1)(i)(B), the circumstance found in FAR 16.505(b)(2)(i)(B) also exists, “Only one awardee is capable of providing the supplies or services required at the level of quality required because the supplies or services ordered are unique or highly specialized.”

5. Reason for Authority Cited:

a. The work and processes of SARET are unique and highly specialized because SARET requires teams of technical experts on site at multiple CONUS and OCONUS locations to perform a variety of technical functionalities on the following Army systems:

31 types of small arms weapons

5 types of lasers 6 types of optics 4 types of mortars 3 types of helmets

Camber Corporation has developed unique teams of experts that can perform the required visual inspection, gauging, function checks, and repair services for a wide range of Army small-arms, lasers, optics, mortars, and helmets, in accordance with (IAW) current applicable Army Field Maintenance Technical Manuals and TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (LCMC) guidance. Camber Corporation is the only contractor with teams certified to perform this effort by TACOM LCMC. The certification process is a two phase process. In phase one, classroom instruction and testing, is conducted by TACOM LCMC subject matter experts in a classroom environment for 30 students per class, approximately three weeks per class for a total of two months of training. Phase two is conducted on SARET missions under the leadership and evaluation of TACOM LCMC SARET mission leads for three consecutive and then three simultaneous missions. Based on planning for units requiring RESET and the mix of equipment in those units, as well as the U.S. Army Operational Tempo (OPTEMPO), this phase can take approximately four months. These teams are trained and possess the required expertise in all small arms RESET by SARET including small arms and crew-served weapon systems, mortars, optics, and Integrated Helmet and Display Sight System (IHADSS). The time required to certify another contractor through both phases would be approximately six months and would result in unacceptable delays in the RESET of units that are scheduled for refurbishment by SARET, if the proposed task order is not issued on a non-competitive basis to Camber Corporation. The six month time period required for certification is based on the number of days needed to execute current ARFORGEN (Army forces generation) model as described below.

b. Under the ARFORGEN model, Army units during redeployment have 180 days to reset all their equipment and then enter the train, ready, fight phase. The current average for equipment returning from deployment is 127 days, which leaves 53 days for a unit to achieve RESET of its equipment. Day 181, therefore, begins the Army unit’s train phase, which requires units to have their weapons fully mission capable (FMC) for tactical training and weapons qualification ranges.

c. As stated above, Camber Corporation is the only contractor that can execute the specialized nature of the work required for this effort and keep up with the OPTEMPO of the SARET Mission. To illustrate the pace of the OPTEMPO for FY12, SARET had 105 weapons missions planned and Camber Corporation has already executed 88 of those missions with 150,494 weapons inspected and repaired at 98.2% FMC, 135,532 optics and lasers inspected and repaired at 100% FMC. In addition, in FY12, Camber executed four missions for Integrated Helmet and Display Sight System (IHADSS) with 397 pilots helmets inspected and repaired at 100% FMC. Lastly, in FY12, Camber executed 27 missions for mortars and has three more planned, with 775 mortars scheduled for repair and 493 have been made100% FMC.

d. As demonstrated in the market research below, Camber Corporation is the only known OMNIBUS III BPA holder with the technical expertise to perform the SARET mission. Specifically, Camber Corporation is the only source that has experience in AH- 64 Integrated Helmet and Display Sight System (IHADSS) helmet repair and fitting.

Through the use of the Camber Corporation Helmet Team, SARET has been able to give Soldiers the best possible fit and function of their helmet and become a reliable source of maintenance for Aviation Units in the Army. Before ACC-WRN contracted with Camber Corporation to service IHADSS, the Army had no formal program in place to RESET these helmets. Continuation of this service is critical to Army requirements and because the service of helmet fitting is highly complicated due to the unique ergonomic requirements of each pilot and dependent on the knowledge and skill of the Camber IHADSS fitting professional, this service is both unique and highly specialized.

e. Camber Corporation repairmen have the type of unique skills and established unique abilities that are equivalent to those of an Army Military Occupational Skills (MOS) 91F, Small Arms and Artillery Repairer, or MOS 91K, Armament Repairer, which makes this company uniquely qualified to perform this work. Within the Army, other than SARET, only Anniston Army Depot (ANAD) has the ability to perform weapons repair and RESET work. However, ANAD does not have the ability to perform optics and lasers work, which forms a high percentage of the work required. It is not possible for the units to ship its weapons to ANAD for repair under the ARFORGEN Model described in greater detail below, due to unacceptable delays and expense. Helmet fitting must be performed by missions at the unit location. AMC (Army Material Command) EX-ORD 11-217 states the only source of repair (SOR) for small arms weapons reset is SARET.

At this time Camber Corporation is the only source capable of providing the repair and RESET services required by SARET at the level of quality and OPTEMPO required.

6. Market Research: The Contract Specialist conducted market research in August 2012. The market research consisted of researching the websites of the 16 Omnibus III BPA holders: Booz Allen Hamilton, DRS Technical Services, Inc., Jacobs Corporation., Camber Corporation, VSE Corporation, MTS Technologies, Inc., BRTRC, PD Systems, Qualis Corporation, TecMasters Inc., Analytical Services Inc., DCS Corporation, SAIC, The Tolliver Group, Inc., VT Aepco, and O’Neil & Associates and by emailing each contractor questionnaires for evidence of similar work performed. Based on the findings from this research, only Camber Corporation had recent relevant experience performing small arms repair work (RESET) for the U.S. Army as a prime or a subcontractor for standard Army small arms weapon systems including guns, optics, lasers, mortars and IHADSS during the last five years. Further, of the 16 Omnibus III BPA Holders, only Camber Corporation has trained and certified employees ready to continue the mission in September 2012, when the current task order expires, to assemble multiple teams that can inspect and repair over 100,000 standard Army small arms weapons per year including guns, optics, lasers, mortars and IHADSS in accordance with Army Field Maintenance Technical Manuals at various CONUS and OCONUS locations. This research supports the Technical and Requirement Certifications that only Camber Corporation possesses the requisite U.S. Army small arms repair and refurbishment knowledge and experience in the existing pool of possible offerors among the 16 Omnibus III BPA Holders.

7. Other Facts:

a. These SARET services were originally procured by ACC-WRN under the ILSC Omnibus BPA in March 2007 and solicited among Camber Corporation, DUCOM Inc., and MTC Technologies. On 14 March 2007 the Camber proposal was determined the best value of the quotations submitted. Task order 0003 was awarded under Camber Corporation BPA W56HZV-06-A-0004 for a base period of $2.4 million and an option year of $2.5 million. In July 2008 a “Logical Follow-On Exception,” Limited Source Justification was approved and the task order was increased by $8.4 million for the 6 month period extending from 15 July 2008 through 31 January 2009. After that period, ACC-WRN’s Rock Island office (ACC-WRN (RI)) procured the required services under GSA Order W5209-09-F-0010 for the period 12 January 2009 through 31 March 2009 valued at $1.9 million with an Option through 31 May 2009. Competitive procedures were also used for the follow-on effort. IDIQ contracts were established by ACC-WRN (RI) for both Camber Corporation and General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) in January 2009. Task orders were competitively awarded to both GDIT and Camber Corporation under the IDIQ contracts, but GDIT was unable to perform the required work and maintain the OPTEMPO and stopped competing for Task Orders.

Thereafter, the procurement responsibility came back to ACC-WRN, and on 06 May 2011, a Logical Follow-On action (J&A CMO Control No.11-132) valued at $68.9 million was awarded to Camber Corporation under Omnibus III BPA W56HZV-09-A-A905; task order 0007 for the 17 month period extending from 07 May 2011 through 26 September 2012. The proposed task order valued at $51.8 million represents a continuation of services from W56HZV-09-A-A905.

b. The reason SARET was established was to meet current Department of the Army ARFORGEN model reset standards. According to Chief of Staff of the Army the current ARFORGEN model will continue post conflict. Also, Army Material Command (AMC) EX-ORD 11-217 states the only source of repair (SOR) for small arms weapons reset is SARET. To meet Army ARFORGEN OPTEMPO and AMC EX-ORD, SARET must have unique teams of specialists that perform visual inspection and repair of Army small arms weapons systems as well as optics and lasers, and IHADSS Apache attack helicopter pilot helmets in accordance with current applicable Army Field Maintenance Technical Manuals and TACOM LCMC guidance. The weapons, optics, and lasers repair teams have a high level of expertise and immense attention to detail that have minimized errors in the SARET process and have resulted in cost savings through such knowledge of repair. The ability to repair rather than replace weapons, optics, lasers, and IHADSS systems is evident at every mission and results in cost savings to the Army. All repair personnel are also cross trained to support weapons, lasers, optics and IHADSS.

IHADSS is a system the Army no longer has an MOS (military occupational skill) to execute the mission of IHADSS reset. Through Camber Corporation personnel, SARET provides Army units with a vastly improved supply of fully operational weapons, optics, and lasers as well as IHADSS with the unique and specialized workforce the Army demands. The Camber Corporation TACOM LCMC trained and certified teams are the only ones currently executing this mission to RESET weapons, optics, lasers, mortars, and IHADSS for the U.S. Army.

8. Actions to Increase Competition: The requirement for SARET services is expected to last through the end of Operation Enduring Freedom plus two years (i.e., Government FY16). Simultaneous to this sole source action, a competitive task order request will be issued in January 2013 to solicit a viable source of supply under OMNIBUS III for these unique services. Based on historical lead times for previous awards, an award of a new competitive task order would take approximately 180 days (six months) for the task order request, evaluation, and award process. The twelve months to be procured under this limited source justification will provide the Government six months to competitively award a new task order and six months for a new contractor to train under phase one of the certification process and conduct three consecutive and then three simultaneous missions under phase two of the certification process.

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

Name: Raymond Muskeyvalley Title: Associate Director Soldier & Chemical Biological Readiness and Sustainment Signature: //s// Date: August 24, 2012

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

Name: Raymond Muskeyvalley Title: Associate Director Soldier & Chemical Biological Readiness and Sustainment Signature: //s// Date: August 24, 2012

11. Contracting Officer’s Best Value Determination: I hereby determine that this order represents the best value consistent with FAR 8.404(d) and results in the lowest overall cost alternative (considering price, special features, administrative costs, etc.) to meet the Government’s needs. A price reasonableness determination will be made on this buy prior to award.

Name: Ryan J. McMillan Title: Contracting Officer Signature: //signed// Date: 13 August 2012

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

Name: Ryan J. McMillan Title: Contracting Officer Signature: //signed// Date: 13 August 2012

Approval of Limited Sources Justification

Based on the foregoing justification, I hereby approve the procurement of SARET Services for the TACOM LCMC ILSC as described above, valued at an estimate of $51.8 million, pursuant to the authority of 40 U.S.C. 501 and FAR 8.405-6 (a)(1)(i)(B) and pursuant to HCA Delegation of Authority 10-05, subject to availability of funds, and provided the supplies or services herein described have otherwise been authorized for acquisition.

Date: _7 Sep 12_ Signature: _______________________

HARRY P. HALLOCK

Principal Assistant Responsible for Contracting