Redacted Sole Source Justification

MEMORANDUM

Subj: SOLE SOURCE JUSTIFICATION MEMORANDUM FOR ANALYZER

LINERIZATION SERVICES FROM EMERSON

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Identification of the agency and the contracting activity, and specific identification of the document as a “Sole Source Justification.”
This is a sole source justification. Contracting activity is NSWC-PCD, Code 024, 110 Vernon Ave., Panama City, FL, 32407.
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Nature and/or description of the action being approved.

This action will award a firm fixed price purchase order pursuant to Rosemount, INC. CAGE: 1LQF0 to provide annual calibration and recertification of instrumentation in support of unmanned and manned diving operations inside the hyperbaric chambers at NEDU. 3.

A description of the supplies or services required to meet the agency’s needs. 
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The Contractor shall provide annual maintenance, calibration, linearization, and recertification of up to (10) Emerson model MLT analyzers and up to (14) Xstream model analyzers at NEDU.
Contractor shall provide a field technician specializing in gas analysis to perform work over 5 consecutive days (Mon – Fri, excluding holidays), 8 hours on-site each day at the NEDU facility in Panama City Beach, Florida.
Contractor shall calibrate / verify instrumentation to customer provided ranges. Contractor shall provide a detailed as found / as left report will be submitted to the customer on a daily basis.
Contractor shall perform all maintenance in accordance with manufacturer’s specifications.

This acquisition will be conducted using simplified acquisition procedures. The Government's minimum needs have been verified by the certifying technical and requirements personnel. This memo does not authorize acquisition for other requirements. 4.

Justification Rationale

This acquisition is conducted under the authority of FAR 12.102(a), Restricting Competition for Commercial Acquisitions Below the Simplified Acquisition Threshold. The determination has been made that only one source is reasonably available to meet the Government's minimum needs.
The Navy Experimental Diving Unit (NEDU) currently has a requirement for the item(s) listed in Paragraph 3 of this document. As the manufacturer of the instrument, ROSEMOUNT, Inc.

(subsidiary: EMERSON LLLP) is the only company offering service and recertification of the equipment. To use another company to conduct recertification on this equipment might compromise their overall performance. Use of another vendor may change or introduce new parameters that may be harmful to all diving systems tested and maintained at NEDU, and