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Statutory Authority Permitting Other Than Full and Open Competition

The statutory authority permitting other than full and open competition for this effort is 10 U.S.C. § 3204(a)(1), as implemented by Revolutionary Federal Acquisition Regulation Overhaul (RFO) 6.103-1(b), “Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements” as well as RFO 6.103-1(c)(2), “Awarding a follow on contract for the continued development or production of a major system or highly specialized equipment where award to another source would result in substantial duplication of cost to the Government that is not expected to be recovered through competition or result in unacceptable delays in fulfilling the agency’s requirements.”
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Rationale Justifying Use of Cited Statutory Authority

A. Unique Contractor Qualifications and Technical Complexity The proposed source, Anduril Industries Inc., is the only known source to deliver fully compliant MTC Shelter Systems within the Government’s mandatory timelines. The MTC Shelter System is not a simple commercial container procurement; it is a highly complex, integrated weapon system component. Beginning in 2024 through 2026, the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, Science and Technology Division (MCWL S&T) invested approximately
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in a prototype contract awarded through the Defense
Technical Innovation Center (DTIC) with Anduril Industries to develop, engineer, and field-test the pre-production prototype shelters (Menace-I baseline). This prototyping effort matured the precise physical security integration, power architecture, and tactical mobility subsystems needed by the Marine Corps to perform key agency functions related to information, which no other sources can meet.
The MTC Shelter System operates as a fully integrated dual-shelter configuration. The eight (8) Operator Shelters serve as secure tactical workstations. To support sustained operations, these shelters incorporate highly efficient environmental control systems capable of maintaining stable temperature, humidity, and airflow levels to ensure personnel survivability and performance in extreme global climates. Operating in tandem with the operator units, the seven (7) Processing Shelters are dedicated to housing the core server infrastructure, high-density computing arrays, secure network routing hardware, and cryptographic equipment. Because of the intensive thermal output of continuous, high-performance computing, the Processing Shelters are equipped with