Justification Exception to Fair Opportunity

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Information Technology (TSAIT) and Contracting & Procurement (TSACP) propose to issue a bridge contract for the TSA IT Management, Performance Analysis, and Collaborative Technologies (IMPACT), task order 70T03018F2BCIO660 services that shall restrict the number of sources provided a fair opportunity to be considered (FAR 16.505(b)(2)).  The procurement request number is PR217667F011. TSACP’s Justification and Approval (J&A) tracking number is JA-2021-03-0606.

The Transportation Security Administration, Information Technology Office (TSAIT), requires continued support for enterprise information technology infrastructure operations at the TSA Headquarters, TSA deployed locations across 450+ airport and TSA staffed transportation network locations. The need for continued support must be issued as a sole source, six (6) month bridge contract to meet mission requirements while the on-going competition for the follow-on acquisition is being completed. The six-month bridge will be accomplished by issuing a sole source bridge contract, for a period of six (6) months, from the expiration of the existing task order, through March 31st, 2022. The current period of performance is August 1st, 2018 to September 26th, 2021.

The justification is attached to this notice as a pdf file.  -end notice-

Awarded contract HSHQDC13DE2095 to unknown vendor for unknown amount on 2018-08-01.