SSJ Redacted NEDU

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Subj: SOLE SOURCE JUSTIFICATION TO ACQUIRE MESA LABS

INSTRUMENTATION (Purchase Request TBD)
1.
Identification of the agency and the contracting activity, and specific identification of the document as a “Limited Source Justification.”
This is a brand name justification. Contracting activity is the Naval Sea Systems Command, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Panama City Division (NSWC PCD), 110 Vernon Avenue, Panama City, FL 32407-7001 (Contracts Department Code 02). 2.

Nature and/or description of the action being approved.

This action will award a firm fixed price purchase order to Mesa Labs, Lakewood Manufacturing Facility, 12100 W 6th Ave, Lakewood, CO 80228 to provide instrumentation in support of unmanned diving operations inside the unmanned hyperbaric chambers at NEDU. 3.
A description of the supplies or services required to meet the agency’s needs. (including the estimated value). The contract effort is to acquire the following: Part Number

Description

Qty

200-800-44
200-800-75
100-436
100-436
100-257-800
CoC

Met Lab ML-800 High Cell
Met Lab ML-800 Ultra High Flow
Swagelok 1 1/2"" to 1"" reducer
Swagelok 1"" to 1/2"" reducer

PEL 1650 CASE W.FOAM, ML-800

Certificates of Conformance, Calibration Certificates

Shipping

Shipping

REDACTED. The Government's minimum needs have been verified by the certifying technical and requirements personnel. This acquisition will be conducted using simplified acquisition procedures with a total dollar value above micro-purchase levels, but not exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold. REDACTED. This memo does not authorize acquisition for other requirements. REDACTED.
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 equipment is being acquired as new equipment to meet testing requirements of diving operations at NEDU. As a critical piece of instrumentation used in the evaluation of diver’s life support equipment, the Mesa Labs instrumentation requested is the ONLY equipment that provides the necessary functions and is compatible with the current installed hardware and software control systems, for use with Mesa Labs flow calibration cell units already in use at NEDU. In summary, using alternate equipment would prove costly in time and dollars to the