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This document is a Brand Name Justification form for the Engineer Research and Development Center – Construction and Engineering Research Laboratory (ERDC-CERL) seeking to procure National Instruments LabVIEW software. The project requires LabVIEW for integrating various laboratory hardware components, including power supplies, oscilloscopes, microprocessors, and sensors into a single hardware management system that can automate tasks and process real-time data during experiments. Market research determined LabVIEW is the only TAA-compliant software meeting their specific requirements, including compatibility with existing hardware, native monitoring interfaces, and built-in real-time engineering analysis functions.
The procurement is structured as a new requirement with firm-fixed pricing, utilizing RDT&E funds. The document justifies the sole-source procurement under FAR 13.106-1(b)(1) after checking mandatory sources like GSA and CHESS and conducting extensive market research. The project team asserts that LabVIEW is the industry standard software for hardware integration and the only graphically-based solution meeting their project needs. The market research was completed in March 2025, and the justification includes certifications from the EOS Branch Chief and a Contracting Officer confirming the procurement's accuracy, completeness, and fair pricing.
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ERDC Control Log # 25-3353
BRAND NAME JUSTIFICATION
1. Agency/Contracting Activity: Engineer Research and Development Center – Construction and Engineering Research Laboratory (EDRC – CERL)
2. Description of Action:
Nature: New Requirement Follow-On Requirement Mod to Existing Purchase Order/Contract Number
Pricing: Firm-Fixed Price Time and Materials
Funds: OMA Other Funds:_RDT&E funds
3. Description of Supplies/Services:
a. The total estimated dollar value of the proposed action is
b. The ERDC-CERL Rechargeable Lithium Batteries Project requires National Instruments
LabVIEW brand software to be used for integrating power supplies, oscilloscopes, microprocessors, data acquisition devices, sensors, actuators, environmental chambers and other hardware together within a single hardware management system that can be programmed to coordinate inputs and outputs to automate tasks and read and interpret data from hardware in the loop in real time. The software will be used for reducing experimental error due human reaction time during experiments, enabling real time data monitoring, and synchronizing lab equipment during experiments.
4. Authority: FAR 13.106-1(b) (1): For purchases not exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold (SAT), contracting officers may solicit from one source if the contracting officer determines that the circumstances of the contract action deem only one source reasonably available (e.g. urgency, exclusive licensing agreements, brand name, or industrial mobilization.)
5. Reason for Authority Cited: Market research has found that LabVIEW software is the only TAA compliant laboratory hardware integration software that has the following capability set:
Compatibility with the program team’s existing hardware, Has a native user interface of monitoring and controlling tests, Has a built-in real-time engineering analysis functions,
6. Actions to Increase Competition: Mandatory sources including GSA and CHESS were checked and no sources were found for this item. The software is published by National Instruments, and this website lists multiple reseller entities.
7. Market Research: Market research conducted involved an extensive internet search. Our study showed that LabVIEW software is the industry standard software for hardware in the loop integration via a graphical programming environment, and is the only graphically based hardware in the loop integration software that meets our project requirements. Given the complexity of the project, we seek an intuitive hardware integration software that has guaranteed
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