Region IX 12th Floor AV Repair

This is a follow on requirement to 70FBR918P00000093 Costas Group installed and engineered the AV equipment in the Region IX 12th Floor Conference rooms. There is proprietary source code that needs to be accessed during the new requirement that no other vendor would be able to access. This requirement goes well beyond the knowledge of how individual components operate but how they were engineered to work in concert with each other. The only vendor/ with adequate knowledge this is the vendor who engineered the system - Costas Group. Any other vendor would have to completely reconfigure the system at a substantial duplication of cost to the Government that is not expected to be recovered through competition.

There is proprietary source code that needs to be accessed during the new requirement that no other vendor would be able to access. This requirement goes well beyond the knowledge of how individual components operate but how they were engineered to work in concert with each other. Costas Group is the only vendor that has the programming source code and they control the administrative passwords required to access the conference room controllers. Region IX IT has neither the access nor coding expertise to fully test, troubleshoot, and correct the identified issues and requirements in the conference room equipment.

FEMA has previously tried to use other vendors to modify the conference room AV system which resulted in additional work being required to correct the changes the new vendor made in order to make the rooms useable. These changes are still being corrected by FEMA through this requirement.

The duplicated cost is estimated to be $200,000.00 based on the labor performed previously and the additional new work of this requirement.

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