Base Telecommunications Services - Administrative Modification

This is an award notice for an administrative modification assoicated with the 12-month Base Telecommunications Services bridge contarct. The administrative modification corrected pricing mistakes that were included in the basic contract's attachments. IAW FAR 5.705(b), because the basic contract was awarded without competition, this administrative modification must be synopsized. Further information detailing the reasoning behind the lack of competition can be found below. The following explanation was included in the postaward synopsis of the basic award, FA8501-18-F-0175. "12 months of Base Telecommunications Services for Robins AFB from SMS Data Products, Inc in the form of an urgent bridge contract. This award was made as an order off of the NETCENTS-1 NetOps and Infrastructure Solutions Small Business (SB) Contract, in accordance with the policy memorandum from AF SAE and AF CIO dated 15 September 2014, and in accordance with AFI 33-112. The NETCENTS-2 contracts are the mandatory source for all Air Force units purchasing NetCentric IT products and services that fall witin scope of the contracts. This award was made in a sole-source fashion to SMS Data Products Group, Inc. under the proceedings of FAR 6.302-2 Unusual and Compelling Urgency. This award is a short-term bridge contract that was awarded due to SMS Data Products, Inc. due to the previous contract suddenly falling through. The current contractor, which was awarded FA8501-17-F-0144 in 2017 notified the government of their refusal to perform past the base year of the contract, which ended on 15 September 2018, with too little time left to be able to perform a full and open competitive source selection award. The requirement was deemed urgent and a sole-source bridge contract was approved IAW attached Justification for an Exception to Fair Opportunity, dated 1 August 2018. Due to the urgency of this requirement and a backlog of work orders caused by the actions of the currentcontractor, it was determined that only small business sources with prior positive award performance history forthe BTS system at Robins AFB would be considered for this urgent bridge action. Following a market researchinvestigation, SMS was chosen for this effort due to their being clearly capable to fulfill the government's requirements, as well as them being a prior bridge incumbent for BTS services with Robins AFB with a positivelyreflected CPARS. The importance of the incoming contractor to perform immediately, taking on the transition of work from the previous contractor, was extremely important in preventing a lapse of coverage. Therefore, award to any other source without experience or a positive, proven procurement history record associated with the Robins BTS system was determined to pose too much inherent risk to the government. (Please see attached Justification for an Exception to Fair Opportunity, dated 1 August 2018, for further details.) Work has begun on the follow-on 2019 contract, which will be conducted as a competitive small business setaside, which is expected to be awarded by 16 September 2019. In the event that the competitive contract cannot be awarded by this date, this bridge contract has an included extension period of a maximum of 6 months in accordance with FAR 52.217-8 Option to Extend Services."