Performance Management and Compensation System Support Services

This notice is in accordance with FAR 5.301 and FAR 16.505.

Description of Action:

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's (OCC) Management Application Services Delivery (MASD) requires continued project support from Definitive Business Solutions (Definitive) for the Performance Management and Compensation System (PMCS) project. The contracting action for which this exception applies, will award a follow-on task order to Definitive to provide said project support. The task order will be awarded on a sole-source basis under an exception to the fair opportunity process for orders under multiple award contracts.

Description of Supplies or Services:

The follow-on task order includes the following services: project management support, system requirements management, user acceptance testing support, and maintenance of project artifacts. See the performance work statement (PWS) for a complete description of the services and deliverables required under the task order.

Authority Cited:

FAR 16.505(b)(2)(i)(c) "The order must be issued on a sole-source basis in the interest of economy and efficiency because it is a logical follow-on to an order already issued under the contract, provided that all awardees were given a fair opportunity to be considered for the original order."

Reason for Authority Cited:

(a) Background
In May 2009, the OCC awarded Definitive a task order (TCC07HQD0050/090005) to provide support for the PMCS project. The task order was awarded after a competitive task order award process involving all three holders of the OCC's Operations Program Management Office (OPMO) indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) support contracts. The scope of the original task order included tasks for the first phase of the PMCS project, including market research, scope definition and business process analysis. In July 2011, Definitive was awarded a follow-on task order (TCC07HQD0050/110011) for continued project management support services for the PMCS project, which included requirements definition and user acceptance test planning. Definitive's services continue to be required to support ongoing requirements management, user acceptance testing and a phased rollout of the PMCS solution at OCC.

(b) Justification
The scope of the work for this follow-on task order constitutes a "logical follow-on" to the previous task orders, its scope being downstream tasks typical in the system development process.

Furthermore, as noted in the background, all awardees were given a fair opportunity to be considered for the original order.

Finally, because Definitive has executed project support tasks for the initial phases of the project, their team has in-depth knowledge of the project and the business processes related to the project. That experience makes it unlikely that another OPMO awardee could complete the follow-on work as quickly and at a lower cost than Definitive. Therefore, in the interest of economy and efficiency, the task order should be awarded on a sole-source basis, outside of the fair opportunity process.

Award was made 30 August 2013.