F-35 JPO Logistics and Engineering Support Services

The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, NJ intends to negotiate and award a Cost Plus Fixed Fee Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract to Wyle Laboratories, Inc., 1960 East Grand Avenue, Suite 900, El Segundo, CA, 90245-5023 for Engineering and Logistics Support Services to provide highly specialized operational and technical assistance and subject matter expertise for the Systems Development and Demonstration (SDD), deployment and sustainment going throughout Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) until Full Rate Production (FRP). The period of performance on this procurement will be a one (1) year contract. The primary place of performance is Arlington, VA. This acquisition is being pursued on a sole source basis under the statutory authority of (See 10 U.S.C. 2304(d)(1)(B), as implemented by the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.302-1(a)(2)(iii)(B, in that the services are only available only from the original source. In this case the acquisition is for a follow-on contract for the continued provision of highly specialized services. If any other vendor was selected to perform these services it would lead to unacceptable delays in fulfilling the agency's requirements. This sole source award is to prevent a gap in services that will occur as a result in a slip of schedule in awarding the follow-on action. Any gap would result in a termination of engineering and logistics activities at a critical time of United States Air Force (USAF) Initial Operational Capability (IOC) declaration which is scheduled for August 1, 2016. There is a surge of activities that will take place from now until the USAF declares IOC that required fully integrated, ramped up personnel to perform their day to day functions. Not having this individuals functioning in their current capacity until USAF IOC declaration will lead to a delay in the schedule which results in loss of tactical aircraft available for combat missions globally. In addition to the USAF not being mission ready, this delay will also result in missions and millions of dollars in overrun. There are several other production contracts that are all positioned to support USAF IOC and if that is delayed those contracts may no longer be viable. This constitutes the official notice of availability of the solicitation IAW FAR 5.102. A seperated notice of availability of the approved Justification and Approval for sole source acquisition will be made available on a seperate posting IAW FAR 6.305(d). Electronic media responses to this announcement must be received no later than 12:00pm EST on 19 May 2016. Responses may be emailed to contact@example.gov and contact@example.gov.