B08 - 21Q0083 Amendment P00001.pdf

Mendoza, Cathy K CIV USARMY ACC (USA)

From: Trainor, Debbie L CIV USARMY ACC (USA) Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2021 10:25 AM To: Daniel Talbot Cc: Eng, Thomas A CIV USARMY RIA-JMTC (USA); Mendoza, Cathy K CIV USARMY ACC

(USA); Trainor, Debbie L CIV USARMY ACC (USA) Subject: RE: [Non-DoD Source] RIA Aucos service contract - SS justification response.

Attachments: Scope of Work (SOW) REVISED dated 04-01-21 Attachment 0001 - Final.docx.pdf

Importance: High

Hello Dan, Thank you for providing the information below to help support the determination of price fair and reasonable in this sole source environment. In reviewing your annual cost (shown below) for the base year, your cost for the firm‐fixed‐ price CLIN 0001 is comprised of phone support and offline reviews for an annual cost of $56,052.00.

In reviewing the SOW, paragraph 3.2, it states, “Contractor will provide two site visits per year to perform preventative maintenance.” This would also fall under the firm‐fixed‐price CLIN 0001. Does your annual cost of $56,052.00 address this preventative maintenance requirement? Please advise whether or not your annual cost included this preventative maintenance requirement.

Regarding determining the price fair and reasonable, you have mentioned in previous conversations that your company is working with other military sites for this same service. If you could provide me with an invoice from another company (Government or non‐Government) for similar work (I understand that JMTC has significant restrictions that other companies might not have), this would help me tremendously in determining the price fair and reasonable. This would provide me with some type of “commercial pricing” as supporting documentation.

Thank you for your patience as we complete this final step in executing this contract award here at the Rock Island Arsenal.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

v/r, Debbie

From: Daniel Talbot <dtalbot@processengineer.com> Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2021 8:13 AM To: Trainor, Debbie L CIV USARMY ACC (USA) <debbie.l.trainor.civ@mail.mil> Subject: [Non‐DoD Source] RIA Aucos service contract ‐ SS justification response.

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Debbie , This note from your intended provider may be of use in sole source justification work as you requested.

This specific information helps you understand the complexity and amount of equipment under contract together with the frequency and offline work covered.

I am very confident it could not be matched since this is really a cost contract . They are a good partner and are acting in very good faith to me given the long term relationship.

Candidly the time and expense we have in this concerns me folks might not want to support this ongoing discussion.

Everyone is now well aware how complex and long the process is to complete these service This system is a large and expensive critical control process at the heart of RIA plating and surface treatment operation.

The added complexity of the more recent DoD communication restrictions also eliminated high level immediate computer interaction .

However if you want further clarification Please call.

My Warm regards., Please copy Tom Eng on this content if you have not planned for this already.

Please make sure the frequency and annual work load is represented since this drove the price .

The Aucos line control system is a highly complex combination of hardware‐related PLC controls and a high‐level production control system, which was developed exclusively by Aucos.

Refer to the SOW for control In order to be able to provide a highly sophisticated service for the line control system, in‐depth knowledge of the programming and maintenance of PLC controls must be available, as well as expert knowledge of high‐level language programming for the Aucos line control system.

The Aucos experts assigned to this highly demanding service task have knowledge in RSLogix, Siemens S7 and other PLC programming languages. At the same time, they are experts in the field of high‐level language development in Delphi and C++. In addition, all experts have knowledge in the field of electrical and control cabinet technology as well as with external line components. Only through the in‐depth combination of these areas of expertise can a fully comprehensive service for the line control systems be offered.

This service contract covers the entire facility consisting of the following lines:

‐ A2792 Metalast Hard chrome Line ‐ A2809 Walgren Hard chrome Line ‐ A2891 Black Oxide Line ‐ A2914 Flex Plating Line ‐ A2915 Light Metals Line ‐ A2933 Oil & Ferrous Line ‐ A3005 Spray Booth

The service contract includes the following components for each of the above mentioned lines:

‐ Control cabinet technology ‐ Frequency drive technology ‐ PLC control system ‐ PC operating terminals ‐ Server for the control system ‐ Plant visualization

In addition, the following higher‐level components of the overall manufacturing control system are included in the service contract:

‐ plant‐wide job pre‐planning incl. energy management ‐ central administration of all job protocols ‐ central part data management

The annual cost for the required service level is $56,052.00 This cost is comprised of:

Phone Support

Rate [h] Calls Duration [h] 24 6

$ 249,00 $5.976,00 $ 35.856,00

Offline Reviews

Rate [h] Reviews Duration [h] 6 12

$ 280,50 $1.683,00 $ 20.196,00

$ 56.052,00

DAN .S. TALBOT P.E.

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