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All FAR references shown below are in accordance with the Revolutionary Far Overhaul 766th Enterprise Sourcing Squadron (766 ESS), Strategic Acquisitions Flight (PKZ), on behalf of Headquarters Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) Operational Support Division Weapons/Tactics & Ranges (A3TW), intends to issue a follow-on contract using other than full and open procedures to the one responsible source under the authority of FAR 6.103-1(b) -- Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy Agency Requirements, on/about 1 August 2026, to Cubic Defense Applications via a new contract action. PURPOSE: In accordance with (IAW) FAR 5.101 -- Publicizing and Response Time, when the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 6.103-1(b), the agency must transmit notice of the proposed action to the Government Point of Entry (GFE) known as Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) at www.fbo.gov to be published for at least 15 days before issuance of the solicitation or proposed contract action. IAW DFARS PGI 206.302-1, only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements, when utilizing the authority at FAR 6.103-1(b), the contracting officer shall post a request for information or a sources sought, and shall include the results of this inquiry in the justification required by FAR 6.104. The 766 ESS posted a sources sought for this requirement and received 5 responses; of the 5 responses, none were determined to have the necessary pods to complete this work. Due to market research and the current response from private industry leading to FAR 6.103-1(c)(2), 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: 1) substantial duplication of cost to the government that is not expected to be recovered through competition and 2) unacceptable delays in fulfilling the agency's requirements. The resulting information will be used to request approval of the justification IAW FAR 6.104 for other than full and open competition to utilize authority under FAR 6.103-1(b). DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES: The MOKITS provides realistic Air Combat Training to the warfighter and employs instrumentation on high activity participant aircraft and ground subsystem components. The system contains an air-to-air data link on ultra-high frequency for sharing participant GPS based time-space-position-information and is capable of both range-less and ground-based live monitor operations. The contractor shall provide the following IAW the performance work statement (PWS): configuration management, sustainment engineering, logistics, and provide approximately 96 KITS airborne instrumentation pods and maintain functionality of approximately of the 47 government furnished KITS airborne instrumentation pods and four (4)…

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