AWARD
70 -- rSmart version of Sakai
- Notice Date
- 5/20/2011
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- NAICS
- 541519
— Other Computer Related Services
- Contracting Office
- N00104 NAVICP MECHANICSBURG PA NAVICP 5450 Carlisle Pike PO Box 2020 Mechanicsburg, PA
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- N0010411QQ729
- Archive Date
- 5/20/2011
- Point of Contact
- Andrew Clarke
- E-Mail Address
-
andrew.r.clarke@navy.mil
(andrew.r.clarke@navy.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Award Number
- N0010411MQ729
- Award Date
- 5/5/2011
- Awardee
- rSmart Group, Inc (DUNS 113837822)<br />
- Award Amount
- 90380.00
- Line Number
- 0001-0002
- Description
- the procurement of information technology (IT) support services for the Naval Post Graduate School (NPS), Monterey CA, by Other Than Full and Open Competition from rSmart, Inc. These services are required to support mission distance education distribution and communication efforts to the Leader Development and Education for Sustained Peace (LDESP) faculty and students located throughout the world. This support will include tier two and three support of the open source Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment. Sakai CLE is the enterprise solution for the delivery of online asynchronous learning content for NPS resident courses, NPS distance learning courses, and the learning content delivered on behalf of strategic partners by NPS, including the Foreign Area Officer Program, the Defense Language Institute, and the Naval Environment Training Command San Diego. As an open source solution, Sakai does not have a traditional support mechanism for code QA, integration with other systems, bug fixes, patch management, and issue response. Therefore, this support must be contracted to a third party specializing in supporting academic open source solutions. 4202 of the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 “ Only one source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. 5.Demonstration of contractor ™s unique qualifications: (a)Pursuant to FAR 13.501(a), an acquisition that specifies sole source or uses a brand name description or other purchase description to specify a particular brand name, product, or feature of a product, peculiar to one manufacturer shall be justified and approved in accordance with FAR 6.303 and 6.304. (b)rSmart was the contractor that was awarded the contract to install and configure both the NPS instance of Sakai and the FAO instance of Sakai hosted by NPS. They have a unique perspective and understanding on the way in which the site was configured, the systems that are integrated into both Sakai instances, the unique rules that govern our Sakai instances, the user roles contained within our Sakai instances, the security measures applied to both instances, and the business and academic rules that dictate how our Sakai instances can be used by NPS students and faculty. Brining another contractor or service provider up to speed on these issues would take a significant amount of NPS staff time and would use up time of the overall contract. (c) This is a logical follow on, NPS currently uses the rSmart version of Sakai which is different from the Sakai trunk release from the Sakai Foundation. Awarding the contract to another provider other than rSmart would result in NPS being forced to change versions of Sakai baci to the Sakai Foundation trunk. This would result in two hardships. First, the rSmart trunk undergoes more stringent security and QA testing. Second, the change in versions would result in some downtime and may lead to unforeseen complications.
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