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FEDERAL SUPPLY SCHEDULE SOLE SOURCE JUSTIFICATION

FOR AN ORDER EXCEEDING

THE SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION THRESHOLD

(AUTHORITY: GSAM/R 538.7104-3)

REQUIREMENTS-26-1617

This acquisition is conducted under the authority of the U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) Program.
1. Agency and contracting activity. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Acquisition and Grants Office (AGO), Corporate Services Acquisition Division (CSAD).
2. Nature and/or description of the action being approved. This is a sole source justification for a new order against GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contract No. 47QTCA24D00E4. NOAA intends to award a new order to ANG Signal. Via market research communications with the Contracting Officer, ANG Signal confirmed that this contemplated order is within scope of 47QTCA24D00E4.
A Firm Fixed Price (FFP) order is contemplated for award. 3. Description of the supplies or services required to meet the agency’s needs (including the estimated value).
The requirement is to provide continuous Tier 1-3 support for the legacy DOC Network Operations Center (NOC) environment, Datacenter Operations, and Cable Plant service and to provide specialized network integration and implementation services to accelerate the modernization and integration of the DOC NOC into the existing N-Wave network architecture. This requires complex network implementation, configuration, and validation. The total estimated cost is $8,226,672.00 for a period not to exceed two years. The contemplated total period of performance is not to exceed 8/18/2026 through 8/17/2028. This will allow the N-Wave Program Office to accomplish its mission of urgently mitigating critical network operational risk due to End-of-Life (EoL) equipment. 4. Authority and supporting rationale. The following circumstance justifies a sole source as supported below:
Only One Source Capable under the authority of GSAM/R 538.7104-3(b)(1)(ii) – Only one source is capable of providing the products, services, or solution required at the level of quality required because the products, services, or solutions are unique or highly specialized. ANG Signal is the only responsible source capable of performing this specialized follow-on integration without incurring substantial duplication of cost and unacceptable delays. See the following bullets for more details.
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Unique Knowledge: This requirement is to migrate DOC network operations into NWAVE. To that end, the SOW consists of two tasks: (1) Provide continuous Tier 1-3