Corrected-Sole Source Justification-Award of Joint Deployment Logistics Model(JDLM) Software Development, Pre-Planned Product Improvement (P3I), and Post Deployment Software Support (PDSS)

NOTICE OF AWARD - SOLE SOURCE PROCUREMENT

Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI) Project Manager Constructive Simulations (ConSim) has a requirement to purchase licensing rights and a Software Development Kit (SDK) from Tapestry Solutions, Inc. to maintain the JDLM interface to the JLCCTC for a five-year period. This effort is required for the design, development, integration, test, management, documentation, exercise support and training, and delivery/fielding of the JDLM software as the logistics component of the JLCCTC and US JFCOM J-7 (JWFC) Joint Live-Virtual-Constructive (JLVC) constructive training federations. Tapestry Solutions, Inc. has sole proprietary rights to the software used in JDLM.

JDLM was developed in 1998 to support U.S. Army Europe's then evolving role from Cold War defense to expeditionary force operations. JDLM eventually became the U.S. Army and Marine Corps choice for high fidelity logistics simulations and training. JDLM is in use at the Army logistics training center at Fort Lee, VA and is a crucial part of the JLCCTC. JDLM is used to stimulate the Battle Command Support and Sustainment System (BCS3) currently fielded to U.S. Army units and is the only logistics model used with JLCCTC.

The Government has purchased the use of the JDLM license through a licensing agreement required for continued use of JDLM as part of the Army's training capability. Additionally, the Government will purchase the SDK to provide the ability for JLCCTC development contractors to modify the JDLM software to meet JLCCTC and Army training requirements.

This effort will temporarily continue JDLM development and Post Deployment Software Support (PDSS), for a period not to exceed 12 months, to support ongoing training of the Army Corps, Divisions, and Brigades. With the impending introduction of the Army's next generation logistics Mission Command System - Battle Command 10 - it is imperative that JDLM development and PDSS continue in order to ensure logistics simulation capability to support training. Continued JDLM development and PDSS is imperative to ensure its viability as an effective Army training vehicle. Future JDLM development and PDSS efforts will be executed under the future JLCCTC development contract that will be awarded as a full and open competition.

AWARDED DOLLAR VALUE: $2,368,658.06