SOLICITATION NOTICE
70 -- NeuralStar Maintenance
- Notice Date
- 3/11/2013
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 511210
— Software Publishers
- Contracting Office
- Department of State, Office of Acquisitions, Acquisition Management, 1701 N. Ft. Myer Drive, Arlington, Virginia, 22209, United States
- ZIP Code
- 22209
- Solicitation Number
- SAQMMA13C0055
- Archive Date
- 3/29/2013
- Point of Contact
- Lawanna R. Bradley, Phone: 7038756069
- E-Mail Address
-
bradleylr@state.gov
(bradleylr@state.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The U.S. Department of State (DOS), Office of Acquisition Management intends to issue a Sole Source Award to Kratos Technology & Training Solutions, Inc, 4820 Eastgate Mall, San Diego, CA for the acquisition of Line Item 001 NeuralStar Annual Maintenance Renewal - NeuralStar SNMP Fault and Performance Management Pack Supporting Failover (2Parent and 13 Child Nodes), - TCP Management Interface Protocol - Operator Clients; - Web browser Operator Client; - NeuralStar Design Suite;Kratos Project Number: S00MANT.000.079 (QTY-1 YR); Line Item 002 NeuralStar Annual Maintenance Renewal - NeuralStar SNMP Fault and Performance Management Pack Supporting Failover (2 Child Nodes), - TCP Management Interface Protocol, - Operator Clients, Kratos Project Number: S00MANT.000.080 (QTY-1 YR); Line Item 003 NeuralStar Annual Maintenance Renewal - NeuralStar SNMP Fault and Performance Management Pack Supporting Failover (2 Child Nodes), - Operator Clients,Kratos Project Number: S00MANT.000.094 (QTY-1 YR); Line Item 004 NeuralStar Annual Maintenance Renewal - SNMP Fault, Performance & WWMI Management Package, - Operator Clients, Kratos Project Number: S00MANT.000.095(QTY-1 YR). All interested parties are encouraged to contact the primary point of contact listed on this announcement for further information if necessary. NOTE: JUSTIFICATION FOR OTHER THAN FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION (SOLE SOURCE). 1. The Office of Acquisition Management is conducting this acquisition for NeuralStar Maintenance Renewal to Department-Owned NeuralStar Software on behalf of Information Resource Management, Enterprise Network Management Office (IRM/OPS/ENM).The estimated cost of this acquisition is $641,978.24 2. Nature and/or description of the action being approved: New Purchase Order for commercial items. This procurement is for sole source only. The period of performance for this is 1/1/13 - 12/31/13. 3. A description of the supplies or services required to meet the Department's needs: NeuralStar software provides a network-based, enterprise management solution that monitors and remotes manages all devices integrated into the network, isolates potential problems and catalogs recurring security events and provides streaming intelligence updates to users distributed across the network. The Department has a requirement for the following software upgrades and maintenance to Department-owned NeuralStar software: Product Description Part Number NeuralStar Annual Maintenance Renewal - NeuralStar SNMP Fault and Performance Management Pack Supporting Failover (2Parent and 13 Child Nodes) - TCP Management Interface Protocol - Operator Clients - Web browser Operator Client - NeuralStar Design Suite DoS Order Number : SAQMMA10M2267 DoS Req. No: 1019030385 Kratos Project Number: S00MANT.000.079 NeuralStar Annual Maintenance Renewal - NeuralStar SNMP Fault and Performance Management Pack Supporting Failover (2 Child Nodes) - TCP Management Interface Protocol - Operator Clients DoS Order Number : SAQMMA10F4846 DoS Req. No: 1019030642 Kratos Project Number: S00MANT.000.080 NeuralStar Annual Maintenance Renewal - NeuralStar SNMP Fault and Performance Management Pack Supporting Failover (2 Child Nodes) - Operator Clients DoS Order Number : SAQMMA11M1368 DoS Req. No: 1019130285 Kratos Project Number: S00MANT.000.094 NeuralStar Annual Maintenance Renewal - SNMP Fault, Performance & WWMI Management Package - Operator Clients DoS Order Number : SAQMMA11M1857 DoS Req. No: 1019140191 Kratos Project Number: S00MANT.000.095 4. An identification of the statutory authority permitting other than full and open competition: 41 USC 253(c)(1) and FAR 6.302-1(c), Only One Responsible Source. 5. A demonstration that the proposed contractor's unique qualifications or the nature of the acquisition requires use of the authority cited: The required items are a software product developed by NeuralStar and currently in use by DoS. They are the sole source provider of the upgrades, bug fixes and or enhancements based on the fact that they own the software and protect their source code. No other provider has the source codes to upgrade or modify the product. This product was chosen through a competitive evaluation by the Department of State whereby several products were evaluated. It took approximately 2 years to conduct this evaluation. This would be analogous to Microsoft, where you cannot obtain upgrades or bug fixes to Windows 7 from Apple or HP the code belongs to Microsoft. As compared to NeuralStar, no other company can put into operation software upgrades or augmentation. The proprietary software code support is available only from the original software manufacturer and its authorized partners, and therefore precludes consideration of any other brand. 6. A description of efforts made to ensure that offers are solicited from as many potential sources as is practicable: A Combined Synopsis solicitation will be issued under FAR 5.2 procedures. The Combined Synopsis/Solicitation will include this Justification, and will be publicized on FedBizOpps in accordance with FAR 5.2. 7. A determination by the Contracting Officer that the anticipated cost to the Government will be fair and reasonable: The Contracting Officer will make a fair and reasonable price determination based on previous purchases. 8. A description of the market survey conducted and the results or a statement of the reasons a market survey was not conducted: No market research was conducted, as the NeuralStar software licenses currently deployed are a proprietary software product that can only be maintained with additional proprietary software code through authorized software resellers of the original manufacturer - Kratos Technology & Training Solutions, Inc. (formerly Sys Technologies) 9. Any other facts supporting the use of other than full and open competition: As this is a sole source justification, no one contractor's unique qualifications are used as the basis for this justification. Rather, the products identified by brand name herein have been identified as the only products that will meet the Department's requirements as part of the Department's storage environment. Based on the results of a RFI conducted in the Feb - Mar 2010 timeframe. Several vendors responded and several products were evaluated based on their responses. Each vendor was asked to provide a presentation based on their responses to our RFI. From these presentations IRM/OPS/ENM chose NeuralStar. The NeuralStar products satisfy the following high priority specifications: Manager of Managers, Performance and Fault, simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), Reporting and Latency for the management and monitoring of the DoS enterprise networks and infrastructure. The NeuralStar product continues to demonstrate the ability to satisfy these criteria with an attractive cost-benefit package better than other vendor products that were evaluated. The NeuralStar product has demonstrated high marks on operational awareness via the event and alarm manager, superior ease of use for the end user, the ability to view alarms, nodes and devices at the user and group levels, and the ability to share that information among many users and groups in a single solution suite. It also provides tightly integrated performance metrics as well as long-term storage capacity for trend reporting. NeuralStar provides the framework for integrating with ENM's existing tools using the standardized.Net framework. In addition ENM has direct database access to the NeuralStar product allowing flexibility associated with storage, replication, backups and query access of this data. 10. A listing of sources, if any, that expressed, in writing, an interest in the acquisition: N/A 11. A statement of the actions, if any, the agency may take to remove or overcome any barriers to competition before any subsequent acquisition for the supplies or services required: This Sole Source Justification will be publicized on FedBizOpps with the Combined Synopsis/Solicitation, in accordance with FAR 5.2.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Springfield, Virginia, 22153, United States
- Zip Code: 22153
- Zip Code: 22153
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