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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF SEPTEMBER 30, 2004 FBO #1039
SOLICITATION NOTICE

D -- Cloudmark Subscription Renewal

Notice Date

9/28/2004
 

Notice Type

Solicitation Notice
 

NAICS

519190 — All Other Information Services
 

Contracting Office

General Services Administration, Federal Technology Service (FTS), IT Acquisition Service Center (TFL), 18th & F Streets, NW, Room 2024, Washington, DC, 20405
 

ZIP Code

20405
 

Solicitation Number

TFL4562
 

Response Due

9/30/2004
 

Archive Date

10/15/2004
 

Description

This serves as a ?Notice of Intent? to award a sole source subscription renewal contract to Cloudmark, to provide anti-SPAM capability for the General Services Administration Groupware and Electronic and Messaging Team. The GSA IT Acquisition Services center plans to negotiate with Cloudmark to renew an existing subscription currently being provided to the Groupware and Electronic Messaging Team for anti-Spam services, whose proprietary capability uses spamDNA to identify whether or not an email is spam or legitimate. While other solutions in the market place catch spam emails, they rely on rules an/or heuristic techniques or groups of rules, and by nature are ?reactive? to keeping up with various forms of spam. Cloudmark, on the other hand, provides the only capability that can identify spam using the ?genetic properties? (such as terminology contained in the ?subject text? of a message or terminology contained in the ?to? field of the message, etc.) of messages and can make predictive determinations as to what is spam or legitimate. The other products reactively write a new rule for every strain of spam. For example, instead of waiting for a new rule to be created, the proprietary capability of SpamDNA allows Cloudmark to scan the properties of the message to determine proactively if the message is spam. On the basis of the Cloudmark proprietary SpamDNA capability, a greater quantity of spam messages are screened using a minimal amount of time. The period of performance is for one base year, with two, one-year option periods to be exercised at the Government?s discretion [FAR 52.232-19, Availability of Funds for the Next Fiscal Year, applicable]. All interested parties should request additional information, communicate concerns, or direct any questions concerning this acquisition to Holly Carr 202-329-7250, email: holly.carr@gsa.gov. This notice of intent is not a request for proposals, nor a solicitation for offers. RE: Note 22.
 

Place of Performance

Address: 1800 F Street NW

Zip Code: 20405

Country: USA
 

Record

SN00683613-W 20040930/040928212445 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

FedBizOpps.gov Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)

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