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Justification and Approval for Other Than Full and Open Competition Justification

1. Contracting Agency: The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Redstone, Contracting and Acquisition Management Office (CAMO) are the contracting agency responsible for this acquisition.

1. Description of the Action: The Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear (CBRN) Installation Protection Program (IPP) is supported by a single award indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (SAIDIQ), contract awarded to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), 10260 Campus Point, Mail Stop F3, San Diego, CA 92121. The contract ceiling over the five-year ordering period is $499,999,999.00, inclusive of all options, and firm fixed price (FFP) with a FFP fixed unit rate table of tasks. Currently, $276,846,444.34 of the initial award remains available.

The requiring office requests a no cost, eighteen (18) month period of performance extension from 2 May 2013 through 3 September 2014. This extension will provide a contract vehicle to bridge the gap between the follow on competed effort and the current urgent requirements.

1. Description of Supplies/Services: The IPP was initiated in December 2003 as a Joint Service effort to protect the critical infrastructure on selected Department of Defense (DoD) installations. The IPP provides complete and optimized CBRN protection and response solutions for both Continental United States (CONUS) and Overseas Continental United States (OCONUS) installations in the event of an attack. The operational requirements are identified in the Urgent Requirements Capability Document (URCD) dated October 14, 2003 and extended August 19, 2005. The period of performance for this contract is 2 May 2008 through 30 April 2009, with four one-year option periods. We are currently in option four (4), the final option year.

The IPP Program provides DoDprioritized installations with a tiered and integrated CBRN protection and response capability to reduce casualties, maintain critical operations, and effectively respond to a CBRN event and contain contamination. Those tiered capabilities consist of emergency first responder equipment (FRE), individual protective equipment (IPE), mass warning and notification (MWN), portable CBRN detection, Shelter-in-Place, medical countermeasures for first responders, mass casualty support, decision support tools, incident management software, and new equipment training (NET) concept of operations (CONOPS), fixed chemical and biological detection, collective protection (COLPRO), and a robust Decision Support System (DSS). The DSS network leverages existing capabilities to be integrated into an installation’s operational command and control infrastructure.

The program uses GOTS items, COTS items, CFI (such as training and maintenance materials for CBRN equipment items), GFE, and GFI (such as operational and employment procedures, Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTP), and Operational Procedures (OP)). Together these components provide an integrated CBRN protection and response capability for DoD installations.

Similar to IPP and following in mission as denoted in the original PWS as “Phase 5, Sustainment”, EM2P’s mission is to provide integrated EM capabilities of common operational picture (COP), enhanced 911 (E911) and mass warning notification (MWN), to Army installations by serving as the life cycle manager for procurement, fielding, training, and providing equipment warranty. The EM2P program was recently authorized and funded in August 2012 to satisfy the operational need for Installation Emergency Management (IEM) capabilities of the Common Operational Picture (COP), Emergency 911 (E911), and Mass Warning Notification (MWN) capabilities. The EM2P solution will enable emergency responders to mitigate or manage risks (man-made, natural, or technological) to the safety and security of Department of Defense (DoD) members, infrastructure, and information in non-war fighting environments. The EM2P office will procure, field, train, exercise and provide equipment warranty for a period of 24 months at each Installation. The capabilities fielding under IPP will be modernized during EM2P program. In addition, EM2P will evaluate new technologies as appropriate and recommend product improvement areas throughout the program’s life cycle. The EM2P solution will provide decreased responder time, quicker warning and notification time and situational awareness of the incident. All installations will implement enterprise hosted solution for COP, E911, and MWN to benefit from capabilities that provide a unified response approach to “all hazards” incidents.

1. Authority Cited: 10 USC 2304(c)(1), as implemented by FAR 6.302-2(a)(iii), Unusual and Compelling Urgency.

1. Reason for Authority Cited: Based on the incidents that occurred at Fort Hood in 2009 and the Army Internal Review findings of the incidents, the Army G-3/5/7 generated a Directed Requirement Document to address gaps with COP, E911, and MWN and identified the requirement as an Urgent Need.

Background –As a result of the lessons learned from the Fort Hood incident, the DoD has initiated the effort to expand installations’ emergency response capabilities and improve information sharing with partner agencies and among installations. These initiatives will significantly improve threat mitigation, enable emergency response, and effectively protect the Force within a challenging security environment.

0. Alternatives – There are no alternatives available to the government, other than the continuation of the CBRN IPP contract. No other alternatives can be considered for proper allotment of time to re-compete and solicit for follow on services.

0. Justification – The period of performance extension will support the current urgent operations to field EM capabilities to Priority I and II installations while concurrently working the required re-compete actions.

0. Impact –Taking no action, thereby creating a gap in capabilities, will severely limit and negatively affect the Army’s ability to respond to all hazards incidents and puts at risk the lives of soldiers, families and civilians on Army installations.

1. Efforts to Obtain Competition: Efforts are currently underway to develop a follow on contract through full and open competition

1. Actions to Increase Competition: The CBRN office is beginning the recompetition of this requirement. Initial market research has begun and the initial acquisition planning documents are underway. The estimated timeframe for award of the recompeted effort is 3 September 2014.

1. Market Research: Market research was conducted from November 2011 through April 2012. JPMG conducted extensive market research to ascertain industry capability. An independent market survey was conducted by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). The focus was to review the near-term future of DSS components—specifically, COP, MNS & E911 technologies. The RFI was posted on the FedBizOps. The survey identified that COTs or GOTs technologies are available for all three (3) individual technology areas (COP, MWN, and E911), not all of which meet all of the Directed Requirement. Three hundred twenty six (326) vendors provided a capabilities statement. For each technology area, it was clear the number of vendors is sufficient to support competition to provide the best value to the government (i.e. there are multiple vendors that have a “good” product that meets the technical needs.) However, it was apparent that none met the requirements as a fully integrated and mature technology for the desired application. In summary no vendor’s integrated approach appeared to be useful as an off-the-shelf solution (all would require significant customization and prime contractor support).

1. Interested Sources: There were over 60 vendor responses from both small and large businesses capable of providing individual technology solutions.

1. Other Factors:

a. Procurement history.

(1) The current contract was awarded during FY08 under full and open competition. There were five (5) large businesses in the competitive range. The contract was awarded as a single indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ), to SAIC. The contract currently has 112 awarded task orders, 107 of which have been completed. The previous contract, W9113M-04-C-0062, was competed full and open. Date of award 28 April 2004, amount $28,426,000.00, as a cost plus fixed fee (CPFE); however changed to firm fixed price (FFP). The period of performance for this contract was 28 April 2004 through 31 December 2009, with three one-year option periods., The maximum value or ceiling price for this contract base period, inclusive of all options exercised was $11,738,082.00.

(2) Both the Guardian and the IPP contracts were competed full and open.

(3) N/A.

(4) N/A.

(5) All previous awards to include the follow on contract award will be accomplished through full and open competition. There is no change in circumstances altering this method of solicitation.

(6) N/A.

(7) N/A.

b. Acquisition data availability. Funding to implement the G3/5/7 Directed Requirement was not released to the program for award until September 2012. This late release pushed all urgent requirements for Priority I and II sites forward along with the development of requirements for a follow on contract. The uncertainty of funding for continued program support beyond FY14 added to the delay in decision for continuation of program support.

c. Unusual and compelling urgency. This is COP is fulfilled by providing the following tools: 1)A Common Operating Picture (COP) that provides consistent, identifiable and relevant operations information shared by more than one command or jurisdiction, 2) A Mass Warning and Notification System (MWNS) that provides multi-modal warning notification to installation personnel within 10 minutes of incident confirmation, and 3) An Enhanced 911 (e911) system that provides the capability for dispatch center operators to automatically receive and utilize telephone number and location of the caller.

d. Subcontracting competition. The clause at FAR 52.244-5, Competition in Subcontracting, is included in the current CBRN contract.

e. Acquisition Plan. N/A.