Memorandum for Record - Limiting Competition at or below the SimplifiedAcquisition Threshold 1. Contracting Activity: Army Contracting Command - Warren INSCOM - NGIC is the procuring activity for this action. 2. Description of Action: FY19 Big-IP Maintenance Renewal Nature: New Requirement Follow-on Requirement Contract Vehicle: CHESS ITES-3H Purchase Request W26MT982891901 Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) Number _______________ Order/BPA# _______ against FSS Contract #_____ _________ Order #___________ against Multiple Award IDIQ Contract Name or #______________ Order #_______ against a single award IDC Contract # ____________________ Modification # _______ to existing PO/TO/DO/Call Order #________________ Pricing/Contract Type: Fixed Price Time & Materials/Labor Hours Cost Reimbursable Hybrid Funds: Operations & Maintenance, Army (OMA) Other Funds: ________ FY: _19_ Brand Name Buy: Yes No 3. Description of Services or Supplies: This action is for the procurement of F5 Networks Big-IP hardware and software maintenance renewal for FY19. The F5 BIG-IP are key components of an operational information technology (IT) solution for NGIC Single Sign-On (SSO), PKI enablement and enterprise audit collection. F5 acts as a single point of entry and authentication for NGIC web traffic. F5 hardware handles PKI authentication to a community user repository as mandated by the DoD and acts as a collection point for access events associated with NGIC intelligence products. Maintenance period of coverage (1/21/19-1/20/2020) MFG Part# Description Covered Product/Customer Serial Number F5-SVC-BIG-VE-PREL13 BIG-IP VE SERVICE: PREMIUM LEVEL 1-3 F5-BIG-VE-BT-10G-V13 ZKKHJEAN F5-SVC-BIG-VE-PREL13 BIG-IP VE SERVICE: PREMIUM LEVEL 1-3 F5-BIG-VE-BT-10G-V13 ZBRPQTBQ F5-SVC-BIG-VE-PREL13 BIG-IP VE SERVICE: PREMIUM LEVEL 1-3 F5-BIG-VE-BT-10G-V13 ZCIHEQDJ F5-SVC-BIG-VE-PREL13 BIG-IP VE SERVICE: PREMIUM LEVEL 1-3 F5-BIG-VE-BT-10G-V13 ZZWHYJOU Period of Performance: _21 JAN 2019 - 20 JAN 2020_ Total Value: $ _47,410.94_ 4. Authority: The authority permitting the restriction of the procurement to items peculiar to one manufacture is FAR 16.505(a)(4) - Restricting consideration to an item peculiar to one manufacturer (e.g., a particular brand-name, product, or a feature of a product that is peculiar to one manufacturer). 5. Reasons for Authority Cited: The NGIC has expended significant resources to establish an industry-standard, high performance, optimized, manageable, reliable and secure baseline network infrastructure utilizing F5 BIG-IP products. Maintenance of F5 extends licenses and vendor support for operational systems that deliver NGIC PKI enablement, SSO and audit collection requirements. The F5 IT solution supports NGIC compliance with the Intelligence Community Standard (ICS) 500-27 (collection and sharing of audit data) and ICS 700-2 (detecting insider threats) and satisfies NGIC enterprise SSO requirements. The F5 is a component of an IT architecture baseline that will support standardized authentication of community users across NGIC applications, reducing the need for stove-piped and application-specific authentication solutions. The F5 provides load balancing that supports higher availability of NGIC data to the DoD and IC customers. F5 is in wide use and well supported throughout the DoD community. DIA has successfully implemented F5 and has achieved solid operations over the past six years. Failure to maintain the F5 maintenance contract eliminates the ability to replace and repair broken software and hardware that provides Insider Threat auditing to meet Army and IC requirements. System administrators will no longer have access to new software patches, version upgrades, and access to technical F5 SMEs, which directly impacts our ability to maintain DISA's Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) requirements and quickly respond to Information Assurance Vulnerability Alert (IAVA) patches mandated on secure domains. Army CHESS is a properly competed IT procurement contract and, IAW Army regulatory guidance, INSCOM G6 is expected to be in compliance with the Army's directive. Centralized consolidation & management of INSCOM Enterprise CERP provides increased infrastructure standardization, reduced management overhead, and significant cost savings due to consolidated volume of procurements from Army-mandated CHESS contracts. 6. Publicizing Contract Actions: For FAR Part 13 actions, the public display and synopsis requirements of FAR 5.101 and FAR 5.203 do not apply due to the $ threshold, apply and will be followed, or do not apply due to an exception at 5.202(a)(11). Requirement to post justification in accordance with FAR 8.405-6(b)(3), FAR 13.105(c), or FAR 16.505(a)(4)(iii)(A) Action is NOT a brand name restriction and is under $150K, no posting required Action is a brand name restriction, under $25K, no posting required Action is a brand name restriction, over $25K. It will be redacted and posted with the solicitation. Action is a brand name restriction over $25K but will not be posted due to exception: FAR 6.305(f) FAR 8.405-6(b)(3)(iii)(A) FAR 8.405-6(b)(3)(iii)(B) FAR 8.405-6(b)(3)(iii)(C) FAR 16.505(a)(4)(iii(C) 7. Market Research: Per AFARS 5139.101-90 Policy, The Army's Computer Hardware, Enterprise Software and Solutions (CHESS) program, under the Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems, is the mandatory source for commercial information technology (IT) hardware and software purchases. This requirement was placed on CHESS under RFI #263819 on 12 DEC 2018. Of the 12 vendors under ITES-3H, This will be a firm fixed price contract. 8. Other Facts: Previous Contract(s): W52P1J-16-D-0019 Government Acquistions, Inc. Cage Code: 0J658 Contract Value: $37,520.64 Business Size: Small Period of Performance: 12/28/18-12/27/2019 Award Date: 27 DEC 18
