Splunk Enterprise - Term License and Support

HHS and DCD specifically have many server environments and datacenters that they manage. Log analysis is a critical piece of the management of very large server infrastructures. DCDs server infrastructure is in excess of 100 servers and growing. DCD developers and system administrators rely on access to SPLUNK and all of the reports. SPLUNK allows the developers to customize reporting and analysis and to extract the data generated by SPLUNK into custom built applications that allow for more enhanced dash boarding and alerting. Management relies on these reports to make informed decisions on a daily basis. Pursuant to the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i), the Contracting Officer may solicit from one source if the Contracting Officer determines that the circumstances of the contract action deem only one source is reasonably available. The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Program Support Center (PSC), Acquisition Management Services (AMS) intends to sole source to: Carahsoft Technology Corp. 11493 Sunset Hills Road Suite 100 Reston, Virginia 20190 This customization is a critical piece to ensure DCD's server infrastructure is running properly and efficiently. The cloud migration of the new Amazon Web Services (AWS) that DCD previously awarded will require DCD system administrators to continue monitoring servers 24 hours a day 7 days a week. With this level of monitoring, SPLUNK, with all of the custom code and modified dashboards, will be absolutely critical to the success of the AWS environment. SPLUNK offers FISMA compliant reporting and alerting that will be a major part of DCDs efforts in FISMA compliance. These reports and alerting capabilities are unique in the Log analysis tools on the market. Any alternate product would cause undue development cost and loss of critical time to implement and would fall short of our current capabilities.