JIATFS JWCC AWS TAPS

The contract supports the Joint Interagency Task Force South’s Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability through a sole-source award to Amazon Web Services for the Tactical Analysis Planning System, a cloud-based platform critical to counter-illicit trafficking and counternarcotics operations. The system operates exclusively on AWS infrastructure in the US ISO East region, leveraging specialized configurations including Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL on db.m4.2xlarge instances and EC2 Dedicated Instances of type c5.4xlarge, with production and test Windows Server environments designed for zero-downtime performance. The procurement was justified under FAR 16.507-6(b)(2) due to the unique technical architecture of AWS, which cannot be replicated by other cloud providers without a 3- to 4-month operational delay, approximately $1.5 million in re-architecture costs, loss of situational awareness, and the need for full Authority to Operate recertification. Performance is based in Key West, Florida, with administrative oversight by the Defense Information Systems Agency at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, under a firm-fixed-price task order issued against the JWCC IDIQ contract. The base period is one year with a one-year option, funded by Operations & Maintenance funds, with no specific dollar value disclosed but certified to fall between $250,000 and $10,000,000. Security compliance is mandatory under FedRAMP standards and ATO requirements, while no physical packaging, marking, or delivery logistics are applicable due to the fully cloud-hosted nature of the service. The contract includes no competitive evaluation, evaluation factors, or offeror certifications, and no key personnel or organizational conflict of interest provisions are specified, as the award rests solely on AWS’s irreplaceable technical capabilities and mission-critical dependency.