JA 05 - AMAZ Redacted

Control No. 26-05

JUSTIFICATION AND APPROVAL

FOR OTHER THAN FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION

AMAZ Consulting - SCADA
VA West Haven New Chilled Water Plant
Solicitation No. W912WJ26RA008

1. Contracting Activity:

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), New England District (NAE) 696 Virginia Road
Concord, MA 01742

2. Description of Action:

Approval is requested for use of specified consulting firm in an upcoming acquisition. This Justification and Approval (J&A) supports the use of a specified consulting firm in an upcoming firm fixed price construction project funded with procurement appropriations. The Government will not contract with the company directly but rather will require that offerors include the provision to utilize this firm as part of proposals submitted in response to a competitive solicitation that will lead to the award of a new construction contract.

3. Description of Supplies/Services:

This project is a Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) requirement to construct a new Chilled Water Plant and provide site utility improvements for the VA Connecticut Healthcare System (VACHS) in West Haven, Connecticut. Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) is a critical system currently in operation at the VA West Haven campus. The SCADA system is used to monitor, control, trend, alarm, and manage critical campus infrastructure systems including, but not limited to electrical distribution monitoring, and other mission-critical building and utility systems. The requirement is to provide AMAZ Consulting to provide systems integration programming for the extension of the existing SCADA system to the new Chilled Water Plant replacement and related utility upgrades. This J&A addresses only the programming effort. The installation, equipment, components and software associated with the SCADA system are separate from this document. However, the task of programming the existing SCADA system to digitally incorporate these new components (by others) would be addressed by AMAZ Consulting.
The cost to program the SCADA systems by AMAZ Consulting is estimated at

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The solicitation for the construction contract for this project will be an unrestricted Best Value Trade-off solicitation, competed under Revolutionary FAR Overhaul (RFO) Part 15. The solicitation is expected to be awarded in Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 with construction completed in FY 2031, with a total estimated construction cost of
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4. Authority Cited:

CUI//SP-PROCURE//FED ONLY

Control No. 26-05

10 United States Code (U.S.C.) 3204(a)(1) as implemented by RFO 6.103-1 - Only One