"Congressional language says once a phase one or phase two (SBIR) has been completed the requirement for a competition has been satisfied. As such, the justification and authorization to award a sole source contract". gimli pointed out the 8/2/19 date for the phase two US Army/Air Force $ 2.9 Million SBIR EPL contract. After over a full year of beta testing EPL there has been enough time to determine if EPL is worthy of a sole source contract. If that was granted, it would be like blood in the water to the larger DOD information technology providers. One of them would want to gobble up the SFOR IP enabling EPL IMHO.