USAi J-and-A SIGNED

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Federal Acquisition Service
Office of Shared Services Delivery (FD)

LIMITED SOURCES JUSTIFICATION AND APPROVAL

GSAR 538.7104-3(b)(ii) - Only One Source
1.​ Identification of the agency and the contracting activity. This Limited Sources Justification is on behalf of the General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) and will be executed by the Office of Shared Services Delivery (FD) Office of Contracting Operations (FDB).
2.​ Nature and/or description of the action being approved. This activity intends to award a non-competitive task order against GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contract 47QTCA25D00CR to Flexion, Inc. for continued agile software development and maintenance services.
3.​ A description of the supplies or services required. USAi is a federal artificial intelligence (AI) shared service that enables federal agencies to adopt trustworthy AI rapidly and responsibly. USAi offers shared, reusable capabilities to include chat, application programming interfaces (APIs), management console, flexible model choice, practical model evaluations, and governance support through a secure, multi-tenant platform built for federal use. USAi is operated as a service that federal agencies depend on. The program is transitioning from an initial trial into a cost-recoverable AI shared service and agency partners expect predictable delivery, secure and trustworthy solutions, reliable operations, and measurable adoption. USAi is delivered through an integrated team of federal and contractor staff. Contractor capacity represents roughly half of the program's delivery capacity. The Government manages strategy, priorities, risk acceptance, model and provider direction, security posture, architecture direction, and agency commitments. The contractor implements within this framework in collaboration with government personnel. The purpose of this acquisition is to obtain continued platform engineering; trustworthy delivery; production operations; and agency adoption, evaluation, and governance support that enables USAi to operate as a reliable federal shared service that enables trustworthy AI adoption by agencies. This support is currently provided under Blanket Purchase Agreement 47QPCA22A0002, Call Order 47QPCA25F0017, in conjunction with other support unrelated to USAi. While Call Order 47QPCA25F0017 includes options,

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