SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- APPLICATION MONITORING AND MANGEMENT PRODUCTS - ED-FSA-10-R-0011
- Notice Date
- 12/22/2009
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 511210
— Software Publishers
- Contracting Office
- Department of Education, Federal Student Aid, FSA Acquisitions, Union Center Plaza, RM 91F1, 830 First Street, NE, Washington, District of Columbia, 20202-5405
- ZIP Code
- 20202-5405
- Solicitation Number
- ED-FSA-10-R-0011
- Archive Date
- 1/13/2010
- Point of Contact
- DARRICK HARDIMAN, Phone: 2023773107, Alexander Mavroukakis,
- E-Mail Address
-
darrick.hardiman@ed.gov, Alex.Mavroukakis@ed.gov
(darrick.hardiman@ed.gov, Alex.Mavroukakis@ed.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- FedbizOpps Notice FedBizOpps Notice 1. Action Code: K Combined Synopsis/Solicitation 2. Classification Code: D Information Technology Services 3. NAICS Code: 511210 Software Publishers 4. Title: Application Monitoring and Management Products 5. Response Date & Time: Wednesday, December 30 2009 at 11:00am (EASTERN) 6. POC: Darrick Hardiman 7. Solicitation#: ED-FSA-10-R-0011 8. Description: This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial software license and maintenance in accordance to FAR 12.603, as supplemented with the additional information included in this notice. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Federal Student Aid is soliciting a brand-name or equal to its current mainframe products from Quest Software listed below. Product Name License Capacity Foglight Per Managed Physical CPU Enterprise 1 Jprobe Suite for HP 1 5 Performasure Websphere Base Prod 3 QCO Spotlight Diagnostics Enterprise 1 Performasure Workstation Enterprise Prod 1 Foglight Per Managed Physical CPU Enterprise 1 Foglight Server For FSM 3 Foglight Server For FSM 1 These products currently run on the following hardware in support of multiple Government Web applications: Hardware Specs: Host Name OS Code #CPUs CPU Speed Memory Drive Capacity csmfoglight1 WIN2003 8 3 GHZ 4GB 2 - 136GB Drives csmfoglight2 WIN2003 8 3 GHZ 4GB 2 - 136GB Drives cspfoglight1 WIN2003 8 3 GHZ 4GB 2 - 136GB Drives cspfoglight2 WIN2003 8 3 GHZ 4GB 2 - 136GB Drives Hardware Specs: Host Name OS Code #CPUs CPU Speed Memory Drive Capacity ca-db-pro01 WIN2003 2 3 GHZ 2GB 2 - 300GB Drives ca-ebdb-tst01 WIN2003 4 3 GHZ 2GB 2 - 300GB Drives The Government's current maintenance support for the Foglight products expire on December 31, 2009. Product Name Some Key Features Foglight • Provides a correlated, 360 degree view of your applications from end user to database and from service levels to infrastructure-to source the root cause of every incident impacting your business and to fix them quickly. • Pinpoints root cause of every incident that adversely impacts a system, thus allowing for timely fixes for critical issues. • Mitigates the risk of application downtime, reduces the operational costs of managing applications, improves service levels, and reduces incidence counts in a significant manner. • Can monitor HP-UX operating systems, Oracle databases, WebSphere Application Server instances that host web applications. Quest Jprobe Suite • Enterprise-class Java profiler providing intelligent diagnostics on memory usage, performance and test coverage, allowing developers to quickly pinpoint and repair the root cause of application code performance and stability problems that obstruct component and integration integrity. • Offers an Eclipse plug-in that provides intelligent code performance analysis and problem resolution directly within the Eclipse Java IDE. • Capability to identify and resolve Java memory leaks and object cycling to ensure optimal program efficiency and stability. • Capability to identify and resolve Java bottlenecks and deadlocks to ensure optimal program performance and scalability • Capability to unexecuted lines of code during unit testing to ensure test coverage and program correctness. • Allows developers to quickly pinpoint and repair the root cause of application code performance and stability problems that obstruct component and integration integrity. Performasure • Delivers deep-level application performance diagnostics spanning the Java technology stack. PerformaSure combines transactional data with infrastructure metrics to help development and QA teams measure, analyze and maximize Java enterprise application performance. • Java transaction profiling and performance diagnostics tool, helps you get to the root cause of performance issues quickly. Provides added protection during integration and load testing-helping drive quality improvement in pre-production. • Facilitates rapid diagnosis, triage and problem resolution-saving time and money • Resolves problems early-on-when the cost to correct is lowest • Enables proactive performance management across the application development lifecycle in pre-production Quest Central for Oracle (QCO) Spotlight Diagnostics • Allows you to quickly discover any performance bottleneck-in real-time or historically-using the granular record and playback function. Spotlight identifies and diagnoses thousands of performance issues, whether it's a specific user, resource-intensive SQL transaction, I/O bottleneck, lock wait or other exact source. Spotlight on Oracle automatically sets a baseline of normal activity for each instance, and can automatically set thresholds and display alerts when it detects performance bottlenecks of any kind Instructions to Offerors The proposed software solution shall comparable or superior to the features and functionalities of the TeamSite products and shall be:  Must be a COTS product  Section 504 & 508 compliant Although the government is most interested in identifying small business sources, this solicitation is not a small business set-aside. Interested parties shall submit their response via electronic mail to the individuals identified below in the specified format: A. Comparative matrix of features and functionalities between the proposed product(s) and TeamSite Software solution including initial cost for integration/configuration of new product (Maximum of 5 Pages). B. Quote for the license and maintenance of the proposed product(s) including two (2) one-year option periods for maintenance renewal out-years. Quote shall be valid for 180 calendar days from the date of submission. C. 180-Day demo copy of the proposed product(s) at no cost to the Government Responses to this notice shall be sent to Mr. Alex Mavroukakis at darrick.hardiman@ed.gov and Ms. Dega Hussen at Dega.Hussen@ed.gov. The Government shall evaluate offers/quotes on the total cost for product replacement including technical and functional benefit analysis. The award decision shall be based on best value determination. All interested parties must respond by the due date and time. No extensions or exceptions will be granted.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/ED/FSA/CA/ED-FSA-10-R-0011/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Federal Student Aid/OCIO, 830 First St. NE cUBILCE 101H3, Washington DC 20202, Washingotn, District of Columbia, 20202, United States
- Zip Code: 20202
- Zip Code: 20202
- Record
- SN02029820-W 20091224/091222235525-10a90c2063525a355c58e131fe096a3f (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
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