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Justification and Approval

For Other than Full and Open Competition

1. Contracting Activity: Army Contracting Command-Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACC-

APG), Huachuca Division, 2133 Cushing Street, Building 61801, Room 3212, Fort Huachuca, Arizona 85613-7070

2. Description of Action: Issue a bilateral modification to each of the Information Management and Communications Services II (IMCS II) Multiple Award (MA) indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract holders to extend on an other than full and open basis, the IMCS II MA

IDIQ ordering period for four months from 1 April 2014 through 31 July 2014 to A&T Systems, Inc., W91RUS-08-D-0001, Altech Services, Inc., W91RUS-08-D-0002, Cordev, Inc., W91RUS-

08-D-0003, GC&E Systems Group, Inc., W91RUS-08-D-0004, Strategic Resources, Inc., W91RUS-08-D-0005, GSTek, Inc., W91RUS-08-D-0006, and Global Management Systems, Inc., W91RUS-08-D-0011 to provide continuity of non-personal services for Operation and

Maintenance (O&M) to various Network Enterprise Center (NEC) sites and support requirements for Administrative Telephone Services (ATS) and Information Technology (IT) under the current IMCS-II IDIQ contracts specified in each individual task orders. The total estimated ceiling price for the entire MA/IDIQ contracts is $499,000,000. The estimated balance remaining on the ceiling price is $241,203,660.00. This extension will allow time for the acquisition follow-on W91RUS-13-R-0004 to be competed under the IMCS-III program. Fiscal

Year 2014 Operational and Maintenance (Army) funds will be used.

3. Description of Supplies/Services: The existing contracts for the IMCS II program support numerous NEC sites with competitively awarded task orders. Support services include the following: Administrative Telephone Services (ATS) including Switchboard Console

Operations, Inside Plant, Customer Support (Telephone), and Outside Plant (Cable); IT Services, including Local Area Network (LAN) Administration and System Maintenance, software installation, hardware and software troubleshooting, Information Assurance (IA), and Web

Master support; Technical Control Facility (TCF) operation and maintenance, to include the TCF matrix switch; and Configuration Management of the installation infrastructure, to include creation and updating of drawings using Computer Aided Design (CAD) engineering support;

and Land Mobile Radio (LMR) Network Management, and Control System (Master Controller)

Management.

Under the IMCS II program, 35 task orders have been awarded from 1 October 2008 to date with a total estimated value award of $257,779,634.00. A review of the program indicated that 34 task orders were awarded utilizing the fair opportunity competition process. The term of the

IDIQ contracts stated that each IDIQ contractor would receive $2,500 as a minimum guarantee, but did not state when the minimum guarantee must be fulfilled. Only one contractor had not received a task order during mini competition under fair opportunity. To fulfill the minimum guarantee to this contractor, a task order with base plus four option periods with period of performance from 1 April 2010 through 31 March 2015 was awarded citing the exception to fair opportunity in order to satisfy the contract minimum guarantee. Eventually, the contractor was