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FBO DAILY - FEDBIZOPPS ISSUE OF SEPTEMBER 17, 2014 FBO #4680
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70 -- Region 3 Commvault Data Protection Licensing - Attachment

Notice Date

9/15/2014
 

Notice Type

Attachment
 

NAICS

541519 — Other Computer Related Services
 

Contracting Office

Department of Veterans Affairs;Technology Acquisition Center;23 Christopher Way;Eatontown NJ 07724
 

ZIP Code

07724
 

Solicitation Number

VA11814Q0503
 

Archive Date

12/23/2014
 

Point of Contact

Cara DiNocera, Contract Specialist
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Award Number

NNG07DA19B VA118-14-F-0518
 

Award Date

9/15/2014
 

Awardee

AFFIGENT, LLC;13873 PARK CENTER RD STE 127;HERNDON;VA;201713248
 

Award Amount

$643,217.46
 

Description

JUSTIFICATION FOR AN EXCEPTION TO FAIR OPPORTUNITY 1.Contracting Activity: Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Acquisition Operations Technology Acquisition Center 23 Christopher Way Eatontown, New Jersey 07724 2. Description of the Action: The proposed action is for a firm-fixed-price (FFP) delivery order issued under the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) IV Government-Wide Acquisition Contract for the procurement of 205 Terabytes (TB) of brand name CommVault Simpana CommCell Data Protection Advance (DPA) Suite software usage licensing and associated maintenance. This action is to purchase additional backup software usage licensing and maintenance to augment existing licensing for the Office of Information and Technology (OI&T), Field Operations Region 3's two centralized CommVault CommCells installed and operating in each respective non-Vista Data Center in Cleveland, Ohio and the Durham, North Carolina VA Medical Centers (VAMC). The period of performance will consist of a 30 day delivery schedule for the CommVault CommCell DPA Suite software usage licensing, followed by 12 months of maintenance support. 3. Description of Supplies or Services: This requirement is to purchase brand name CommVault Simpana CommCell DPA software usage licensing and maintenance to augment existing OI&T Region 3 CommCells and allow support of additional Veterans Health Administration VAMC servers and database backups of its critical data in support of direct patient care operations. The required 205 TB of software usage licensing and maintenance support will be utilized within the Region 3 facilities (Cleveland and Durham VAMCs) which currently utilize the CommVault Simpana backup software to provide standardized backup, file replication, and data recovery solutions that support facility disk tiering and data protection requirements. The licensing is also required to support Region 3's alternate site processing of its critical virtualization environment. The CommVault Simpana Suite CommCell software licenses are provided on a usage basis. The total estimated dollar value of the required additional CommVault Simpana CommCell DPA software usage licensing and maintenance is 4. Statutory Authority: The statutory authority permitting an exception to fair opportunity is Section 41 U.S.C. 4106(c)(2) as implemented by the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 16.505(b)(2)(i)(B), entitled "Only one awardee is capable of providing the supplies or services required at the level of quality required because the supplies or services ordered are unique or highly specialized." 5. Rationale Supporting Use of Authority Cited: This is a brand name justification in support of FAR 11.105, Items Peculiar to One Manufacturer. OI&T Region 3 currently utilizes CommVault Simpana Suite software, specifically the CommVault Simpana CommCell and Simpana One Pass backup software, with a lifecycle centralized file system to manage the Region's two petabyte centralized file storage devices. CommVault Simpana CommCell and CommVault Simpana One Pass backup software are utilized across all of the Region's 41 facilities to provide a standardized file archiving and backup solution. VA has established a centralized file backup system wherein all of Region 3's CommVault licenses are consolidated into three Region 3 CommVault CommCells located at the Cleveland, Ohio data center; the Durham, North Carolina data center; and the Warner Robbins, Georgia Air Force Base Defense Information Systems Agency data center. This procurement is to purchase additional license capacity for the Cleveland and Durham locations only. VA requires ongoing backup actions to be monitored from one console and currently utilizes a one console, one solution to manage the Region 3 data center and facility assets which has provided significant improvement in Region 3 core system service line operations and support. CommVault Simpana Suite is the only software that provides a one console, one solution configuration to manage backup jobs including disk to disk or tapes and also provides visibility to all physical locations. Additionally, in accordance with Region 3 Core System Standards, backup software is required to have agentless backup capability and archived data must be searchable, without full retrieval from the data center. CommVault Simpana Suite is the only software that has these capabilities. Furthermore, no other product can transmit file level and block level data into a single encrypted transmission to backup files in remote locations, which is required by VA standards. In addition, in accordance with VA Security requirements, backup software is required to have Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 certification. CommVault Simpana Suite is the only backup software that has this required certification. 6. Efforts to Obtain Competition: Market research was conducted, details of which are in the market research section of this document. In accordance with FAR 5.301 and 16.505(b)(2)(ii)(D), this action will be synopsized and the Justification will be made available within 14 days of award on the Federal Business Opportunities Page (FBO). In addition, in accordance with FAR 16.505(a)(4)(iii)(A), this Justification for an Exception to Fair Opportunity will be posted on the NASA SEWP IV website with the solicitation. 7. Actions to Increase Competition: In order to remove or overcome barriers to competition in future acquisitions for this requirement, the Government will continue to perform market research to determine if there are any products and/or source providers available that will enable future requirements to be competed. 8. Market Research: The market research for this acquisition was conducted in February 2014. The Region 3 OI&T technical experts performed market research by conducting internet searches, demonstrations, and reviewed the technical data for backup software products. The Region 3 OI&T team looked at the backup software products from multiple vendors to include CommVault Simpana, Asigra, Netbackup, and Symantec Backup Exec. The backup software offered by Asigra and Symantec Backup Exec do not provide the capability to manage backups through one console, one solution. Netbackup and Asigra do not provide agentless backup capability or searchable archive capability. In addition, only CommVault Simpana CommCell Suite software has the required FIPS 140-2 certification. None of the other backup software products reviewed can meet all of VA's functional requirements as discussed in paragraph five of this document. Based upon this research, the Government's technical experts have determined that only CommVault brand name software can meet all of VA's requirements identified in Paragraph 5. 9. Other Facts: None.
 

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