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4. Statutory Authority Permitting Other Than Full & Open Competition This J&A is based upon the authority of 10 USC 3204(A) (1), only one or a limited number of responsible sources will satisfy agency requirements, as implemented by FAR 6.302-1

5. Rationale Justifying Use of Cited Authority

A/RMC

Acquire, for the second or subsequent time, directly from the actual manufacturer.

A/RMSC

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The Government does not own the data or the rights to the data needed to purchase / contract repair of this part from additional sources. It has been determined to be uneconomical to buy the data or rights to the data. It is uneconomical to reverse engineer the part. This code is used when the Government did not initially purchase the data and/or rights. If only one source has the rights or data to manufacture/repair this item, A/RMCs 3, 4, or 5 are valid. If two or more sources have the rights or data to manufacture/repair this item, A/RMCs 1 or 2 are valid. This acquisition will be solicited to
is the sole source for the Valve Assembly.
is the only source that owns the rights to the design of this part. They have proven their production capabilities supporting this equipment since its inception. A less restrictive specification does not currently exist and development of such an item at this time would not meet the immediate needs of the fleet. The source approval activity is the following: Ship Systems Engineering Station, Carderock Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center. There are no known distributors.

6. Description of Efforts Made To Solicit Offers From as Many Offerors as Practicable

The proposed contract action was synopsized on the government-wide point of entry on

and as a result

Market research was conducted in accordance with far part 10. The results of the market research conducted (or the reason(s) market research was not conducted) are as follows
Market research was conducted by the design and engineering communities at the time of initial acquisition of these items. At the time of this J&A a technical review, which consisted of searching several Government databases including ITIMP, FLIS and ERP, have been completed on these items. Search criteria included Part Number, Design Control Activity, Cage Code, NSN, Nomenclature, AMC/AMSC, AAC, Criticality Coding, recorded approved sources of supply, historical sources of supply and past contracts. Commercial search engines were also utilized using the same criteria. Based on this market research the