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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF SEPTEMBER 16, 2009 FBO #2853
SOLICITATION NOTICE

70 -- Bladelogic Software

Notice Date
9/14/2009
 
Notice Type
Justification and Approval (J&A)
 
NAICS
423430 — Computer and Computer Peripheral Equipment and Software Merchant Wholesalers
 
Contracting Office
Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, WR-ALC, WR-ALC/PK Acquisition Opportunities, 235 Byron St,, Warner Robins, Georgia, 31098-1611, United States
 
ZIP Code
31098-1611
 
Solicitation Number
FA8501-09-P-0376
 
Archive Date
9/18/2009
 
Point of Contact
Todd J. Valasky, Phone: 4782221491
 
E-Mail Address
todd.valasky@robins.af.mil
(todd.valasky@robins.af.mil)
 
Small Business Set-Aside
N/A
 
Award Number
FA8501-09-P-0376
 
Award Date
9/11/2009
 
Description
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE I. JUSTIFICATION AND APPROVAL, PART 1 78ABW WARNER ROBINS AIR LOGISTICS CENTER Category: Other Contracting II. NATURE OF THE ACTION: Due to the circumstances described below, this activity will acquire the following using Other Than Full and Open Competition (OTF&OC) procedures: This is a one time purchase of BMC BladeLogic Operations Manager Software Suite, BMC Service Automation Report Software, training and support. a. Engineering Services: N/A b. In support of: The 78CG server farm c. Type Requirements: Air Force d. Special features: Proprietary Software e. Period of Performance: One time acquisition f. Class: N/A III. DESCRIPTION OF REQUIREMENT: 78 ABW requires a data center management suite that provides key cross-platform functionality that spans server and application configuration change and patch management, real-time application dependency mapping and tracking, application packaging and promotion, rules-based auditing, compliance reporting, and configuration item-level, role-based access and administration controls. The architecture should include high resiliency, security, and scalability as it relates to these functional areas. This architecture should specifically address the complexity of managing distributed applications and infrastructure by allowing the creation of sophisticated policies that link people, configuration data, target servers and applications, and management tasks to ensure that 78 ABW IT organization will have maximum visibility at all times across all groups for all changes to their server and application infrastructure. IV. STATUTORY AUTHORITY FOR BRAND NAME JUSTIFICATION: 10 U.S.C. 2304(c) (1) as implemented by FAR 6.302-1(c), Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy Agency Requirements. V. DEMONSTRATION THAT AUTHORITY IS APPROPRIATE: The agency's minimum needs can only be satisfied by the particular brand name stated. Justification: BladeLogic's solution suite has the unique capability of collecting and organizing extremely granular server and application configurations and mapping the information to meaningful configuration change and compliance requirements using standardized, encapsulated workflows and policy-driven automation. The solutions do a solid job of managing the change and configuration management processes for servers and applications, notably in their ability to define the processes and related configuration items utilizing strict access controls. A key differentiator for BladeLogic is its ability to automate workflows and deep configuration data collection across heterogeneous platforms. BladeLogic's architecture, one of the major differentiators of the company's solutions, has been developed with a strict focus on people, process, and technology integration and accuracy that enables streamlined configuration, the ability to segregate IT roles and duties, change and configuration management handoffs, and extensive compliance reporting. BladeLogic's Synchronous Management. offers a new management paradigm by allowing organizations to synchronize all configuration management activities across disparate IT teams performing different management actions. Through the use of dynamic, multifunctional policies that link specific people and teams to explicit server and application components and the precise management actions they are authorized to perform, this paradigm ensures provisioning, configuration management, and compliance management actions are not made in isolation, but in context of the overall needs of the business. Key features of the architecture include:  A normalization model for representing configuration items across server platforms as granular, actionable configuration targets with the ability to aggregate and correlate them to define business services  Ability to control access to specific configuration items by role and management function  Ability to model and orchestrate a set of complex configuration changes across server platforms into a single cohesive change with dependency tracking and selective rollback built-in  Ability to perform granular rules-based audits and remediate servers with built-in exception handling BladeLogic has the ability to enable 78 ABW IT organizations to manage, control, and enforce configuration changes to servers and applications to address three competing requirements being responsive to changes, lowering operational costs, and assuring DOD's Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA) compliance. Through advanced automation and a truly unique architecture, BladeLogic enables IT organizations to crisply segregate change and configuration duties, secure access controls, utilize policies and generate granular compliance reports, resulting in more responsive and cost-efficient datacenter operations. VI. EFFORTS TO ADD ADDITIONAL SOURCES/SOLICIT FROM AS MANY SOURCES AS POSSIBLE: In an effort to overcome such a barrier to competition in the future, the market will be scanned frequently for new software that can fulfill the government's requirements. VII. MARKET RESEARCH: The SBA dynamic search was used John Pittman on 10 Jun 09 to identify potential sources for this requirement. The GSA Elibrary was also queried. BMC was also asked to provide names of other companies that can sell BladeLogic Operations Manager Suite. But the actual deliverables are provided by BMC. Other potential sources were identified that resell BladeLogic Operations Manager Suite required to meet the Government's minimum requirements and are included in this document. Government's minimum requirements include: A single vendor solution providing a set of tools for management, control and enforcement of configuration changes to manage both physical and virtual environments in our data center.
 
Web Link
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/USAF/AFMC/WRALC/FA8501-09-P-0376/listing.html)
 
Place of Performance
Address: Robins AFB, Robins AFB, Georgia, 31098, United States
Zip Code: 31098
 
Record
SN01954085-W 20090916/090915001435-e9055631b2b7c7cd69b477960c31cd9c (fbodaily.com)
 
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