AWARD
R -- SBIR Phase III Topic MDA09-021 entitled " Improvements in Spacecraft Asembly, Integration and Test
- Notice Date
- 8/1/2017
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Navy, Naval Air Systems Command, Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Lakehurst, Contracts Department, Hwy. 547 Attn:B562-3C, Lakehurst, New Jersey, 08733-5083
- ZIP Code
- 08733-5083
- Solicitation Number
- N6833517F0134
- Archive Date
- 8/9/2017
- Point of Contact
- Cynthia Mollo, Phone: 7323237226
- E-Mail Address
-
cynthia.mollo@navy.mil
(cynthia.mollo@navy.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Award Number
- N6833517F0134
- Award Date
- 7/25/2017
- Awardee
- Frontier Technology Inc., 4141 Colonel Glenn HWY Suite 140<br />, Beavercreek, Ohio 45431, United States
- Award Amount
- 3928730.00
- Description
- SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH (SBIR) PHASE III JUSTIFICATION & APPROVAL FOR USE OF OTHER THAN FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION 1. Contracting Activity. Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWC-AD) Lakehurst, NJ 2. Nature/Description of the Action Being Approved. This is a justification to award a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) order to Frontier Technology, Inc. (FTI), Beaver Creek, OH. The Defense Information Systems Network (DISN) is fundamentally changing the way the Department of Defense (DoD) secures and protects its information networks by deploying Joint Regional Security Stacks (JRSS) capability. There are concerns over a clear gap in the DoD stance on protecting infrastructure, platforms and weapons systems from complex network and non-network cyber-attacks. Given the nature of the threat, ships and aircraft are no longer safe from these complex attacks. JRSS is a suite of equipment that performs firewall functions, intrusion detection and prevention, enterprise management, virtual routing and forwarding, and provides a host of network security capabilities. By deploying JRSS, security of the network is centralized into regional architectures instead of locally distributed architectures at each Network Operations Center (NOC), military base, post, camp, or station. JRSS allows information traversing DoD networks to be continuously monitored to ensure response time as well as throughput and performance standards. JRSS includes failover, diversity, and elimination of critical failure points as a means to assure timely delivery of critical information. Under current architectural concepts, ships will be considered Tactical Processing Nodes that will continue to be connected to fleet NOCs via satellite communications and other means. Non-Secure Internet Protocol Router traffic from NOCs will flow through either Installation Processing Nodes (IPNs) or directly through JRSS. The Navy is working IPN design, including an IPN Security Stack, and integration with JRSS. However, as those designs flesh out, ship users will access the internet via JRSS and DoD Internet Access Points, Joint Information Environment enterprise nodes. All Navy applications on shore bases will also flow through JRSS, although that design is also being developed. Planning is underway for migrating excepted networks, including Naval Air (NAVAIR) applications, to the JRSS architecture. The SBIR technology will be evaluated to identify where data processing efficiencies can be gained, and where unexpected network performance challenges can be identified prior to impacting the user. JRSS is part of a larger modernization effort to upgrade the bandwidth capacity of the DISN by implementing Multi-Protocol Label Switching. On 30 April 2010, FTI (W9913M-10-P-0040) and Utopia Compression Corporation (W9913M-10-P-0042) were awarded SBIR Phase I contracts. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Topic MDA09-021 titled "Improvements in Spacecraft Assembly, Integration and Test." FTI was subsequently awarded SBIR Phase II contract number HQ0147-13-C-7113 on 24 May 2012. FTI was also awarded SBIR Phase III BOA N68335-17-G-0025 on 1 March 2017, and this effort is for the first delivery order. Topic MDA09-021 sought to significantly reduce the cost and time required for the Assembly, Integration, and Test of future MDA Space Systems. 3. Description of Supplies/Services. This procurement is to provide engineering and technical services to support MDA in order to leverage NAVAIR SBIR technologies and to support cyber security architecture analysis and installation. This effort includes project management support; network security support; standards application to installations, platforms, and systems; analysis of data to support solutions across information systems; program review support; and reporting documentation. These objectives address the problem of U.S. Navy analysis of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems and the testing and data evaluation. The contractor will leverage key capabilities and functionality within the SBIR technology. This Phase III requirement derives from the Phase I and Phase II efforts described in paragraph 2, and is for program management and technical services in support of the MDA. This effort will be Delivery Order N68335-17-F-0134 under BOA N68335-17-G-0025. 4. Statutory Authority Permitting Other Than Full and Open Competition. 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(5), as implemented by FAR 6.302-5: Authorized or Required by Statute. 15 U.S.C. 638(r)(1) states: "In the case of a small business concern that is awarded a funding agreement for Phase II of an SBIR or STTR program, a Federal agency may enter into a Phase III agreement with that business concern for additional work to be performed during or after the Phase II period." Furthermore, 15 U.S.C. 638(r)(4) states: "To the greatest extent practicable, Federal agencies and Federal prime contractors shall issue Phase III awards relating to technology, including sole source awards, to the SBIR and STTR award recipients that developed the technology." 5. Demonstration that Proposed Contractor's Unique Qualifications or Nature of Acquisition Requires Use of Authority Cited. The nature of the acquisition requires the use of the authority cited. The SBIR/STTR Programs are structured in three phases. Phase I (project feasibility) determines the scientific, technical and commercial merit and feasibility of the ideas submitted. Phase II (project development to prototype) is the major research and development effort, funding the prototyping and demonstration of the most promising Phase I projects. Phase III (commercialization) is the ultimate goal of the SBIR/STTR Programs. Because the Phase III work derives from, extends, or completes efforts performed under Phase I and Phase II, use of the authority cited is required. 6. Description of Efforts Made to Ensure Offerors Were Solicited From as Many Potential Sources as Practicable/Public Notification through Government Point of Entry (GPE). The topic for this effort was included in the Department of Defense Program Competitive Solicitation issued under the SBIR Program. As described above, only FTI is being considered for Phase III award due to the nature of the acquisition. In accordance with FAR 5.202(a)(7), this proposed contract action does not require public notification to the GPE. 7. Determination of Fair and Reasonable Cost. The Contracting Officer will determine prior to award that the negotiated price of the contract executed under this justification is fair and reasonable pursuant to FAR Subpart 15.4. This determination will be documented in a Business Clearance Memorandum, which will be included in the contract file. 8. Description of Market Research or Statement of the Reason Market Research was not Conducted. FAR 10.001(a)(2) indicates that market research appropriate to the circumstances must be conducted. SBIR Phase III procurements are such that traditional market research to identify alternative sources is generally unnecessary. As described above, the Phase III work derives from, extends, or completes efforts performed under Phase I and Phase II. 9. Any Other Supporting Facts. Not Applicable. 10. Listing of Interested Sources. Not Applicable. 11. Actions Taken to Remove Barriers to Future Competition: The Contracting Officer anticipates that competitors will enter the market once the product is commercialized. At this time the product has not been determined to be a commercial item therefore NAVAIR has no plan at this time to compete future contracts for the type of services covered by this document. However, if this item becomes commercialized, it is likely that future acquisitions will be competed using full and open competition and commercial item acquisition procedures. The Contracting Officer is not aware of any specific actions that would further remove barriers to competition. 12. Period of Performance. Base: 12 months Option(s): 48 months 13. Total Estimated Dollar Value of the Acquisition Covered by this Justification, with Funding Specified by Year and Appropriation: Estimated Dollar Value in Thousands 14. Actions Attempted to Make Immediate Acquisition Competitive and Cost/Benefit Analysis. No actions were attempted to make the immediate acquisition competitive; no cost/benefit analysis was performed. As described above, only FTI is being considered for Phase III award due to the nature of the acquisition.
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