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Department of the Air Force: Justification for Other Than Full and Open Competition I. Agency and Contracting Activity (RFO 6.104-1(a)(1)): Agency: AFMC
Contracting Activity: AFLCMC/HNCXK, Platform One

II. Nature and/or description of the action being approved (RFO 6.104-1(a)(2)): This document approves the award of a Bridge Contract on a sole source basis to for continuous operations of
enterprise scale DevSecOps platforms and collaborations services in support of the Platform One Party Bus Value Stream. This justification is made on an Individual basis.
III. Description of supplies/services required to meet agency needs (RFO 6.104-1(a)(3)): The required contractor support encompasses the operational activities necessary to maintain the existing Party Bus capability, including platform operations and sustainment, technical and customer support, incident response, cyber security support, vulnerability remediation, configuration management, integration support, customer onboarding, and other operational functions necessary to maintain the availability and security of the platform. Party Bus currently supports multiple DoW mission partners whose operational activities rely upon continued access to the platform and associated support services.
The Government asserts Unlimited Rights to all technical data, computer software, and deliverables produced by the Contractor in the performance of this bridge contract, in accordance with R-DFARS 252.227-7989 (c) (1) and R-DFARS 252.227-7990. This bridge effort maintains the same data rights posture established under the predecessor contract. The Government is not pursuing any proprietary Intellectual Property (IP) or restricted licensing. The contractor-provided platform baseline remains built on open-source, non-proprietary frameworks, ensuring that the Government retains full rights to modify, deploy, and utilize the technology stack across multiple Department of War classification levels without vendor-imposed restrictions.
The estimated value is

or a one year Period of Performance (PoP).

The anticipated contract type is Firm-Fixed-Price. Funding is anticipated to consist of includes

). The requirement

IV. Statutory Authority Permitting Other Than Full and Open Competition (RFO 6.104-1(a)(4)): 10 U.S.C. 3204(a)(2), Unusual and compelling urgency.
RFO 12.201-2, Other procedures - 10 U.S.C. 3204(a)(1)

V. Rationale for Use of Authority (RFO 6.104-1(a)(5)):

The proposed bridge action is necessary to ensure the uninterrupted performance of the Party Bus