Notice of Intent to Award Sole Source to B23 LLC   2

The Department of the Navy, Naval Information Warfare Center, Pacific (NIWC Pacific) hereby publicizes its
intention to solicit, negotiate, and award a sole-source, firm fixed priced contract with B23 LLC (B23), of
Tyson, VA. This action will provide support for UNACORN Data Engineering pipeline. The contractor shall
use best practices and methods from commercial industry to perform the extraction, processing, analysis,
transformation and feature enhancement of the data sets for use by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and
Machine Learning (ML) models and algorithms. The contractor shall develop real-time data pipeline
monitoring and operations dashboards in order to determine Data Quality and Data Drift and take
corrective actions on the data sets. B23 leadership team was involved in the first DoD cloud computing
data engineering workload back in 2010 by architecting a logistics system for the US Marine Corps System
Command (MARCORSYSCOM). B23 team was responsible for the deployment and received its Authority to
Operate ("ATO") for the first C2S workload to analyze mission data for the sponsoring agency. The
contractor is currently performing this work for the UNACORN project under N66001-20-C-0018. Executing
a full and open competition would yield no viable alternate sources and would cause the program office
and sponsor to incur a substantial duplication of cost, and significant schedule delays in fulfilling the
requirements.
Authority for other than full and open competition under 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1), as implemented by FAR
6.302-1: Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy Agency
Requirements. According to FAR 6.302-1(a), full and open competition need not be provided for when the
supplies or services required by the agency are available from only one or a limited number of responsible
sources, and no other type of supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. 10 U.S.C. 2304(d)(1)
(B) authorize sole source awards where services may be deemed to be available only from the original
source in the case of follow-on contracts for the continued provision of highly specialized services when it
is likely that award to any other source would result in unacceptable delays in fulfilling the agency's
requirements.
Be advised that the aforementioned information is anticipatory in nature and is not binding. This notice is
not a request for competitive proposals; however, any firm believing that they can fulfill the requirement
of providing this service may be considered by the agency. Interested parties shall identify their interest
and capabilities in response to this synopsis, and must clearly show the firm's ability to be responsive.
Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct
a competitive procurement. Any capabilities, comments, questions, or concerns regarding this notice may
be submitted IN WRITING via e-mail to dan.a.nardi.civ@us.navy.mil. A determination by the Government
to compete the proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the
Government.
The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 541330, and the size
standard is 500 employees. The anticipated period of performance will be five (5) years (to include one
(1) year base period and four (4) one (1) year option periods. Questions and/or responses are due by 29
APRIL 2022 at 1200 PT.