Public Notice

JUSTIFICATON

The purpose of this justification is to notify the public of the sole source award for a one (1) year extension of GSA Contract 47QTCA20D0006 Task Order Modification 68HERD21F0106 P00108 to Systalex Corporation. This has been awarded within the Water and OITA Branch /Water Tribal Science Division for the Drinking Water Infrastructure Development Division (DWIDD). Authority Cited:
The statutory authority permitting other than full and open competition is 41 U.S.C. 253(c) (2) in accordance with GSAM/R 538.7104-3(b)(1)(ii) -Only one source is capable of providing the requirement at the level of quality required because the products, services, or solutions are unique or highly specialized; and GSAM/R 538.7104-3(b)(1)(iii) The order should be issued on a sole-source basis in the interest of economy and efficiency because it’s a logical follow-on to an FSS order already issued on a competitive basis.

Need & Justification:

This requirement is for a one (1) year bridge/sole source action to extend the existing order 47QTCA20D0006/68HERD21F0106 with Systalex Corporation (Systalex) to maintain uninterrupted delivery of the current scope of work from October 12, 2026, to October 11, 2027. Order 47QTCA20D0006/68HERD21F0106 provides the following essential support services for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA), Office of Water, Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water (OGWDW), Drinking Water Infrastructure Development Division (DWIDD) IT Systems with the following task areas: 1) program and project management; 2) new software applications design, development, and deployment; 3) software application operations and maintenance; and 4. program implementation; and 5) monthly progress reports.

Systalex is the only vendor uniquely positioned to continue performing without interruption, delay, re-training, or re-engineering under the current PWS. The current contractor is fully embedded in ongoing development activities and workflows that are critical to supporting the national drinking water program. This includes providing data system support for the implementation of the following new National Primary Drinking Water Regulations (NPDWRs), with implementation dates shown in parentheses. Successful completion of data system support requires both thorough and accurate understanding of complex decision logic for determining water system compliance with the NPDWRs as well as a detailed understanding of how this logic has been coded to date. In addition to the agency’s priority projects mentioned above, the current contractor provides ongoing operations and maintenance support for several smaller but highly specialized program systems (approximately 28 IT systems and applications as described in Appendix B to the Performance Work Statement (PWS)).