SPECIAL NOTICE
D -- Encase Software Brand Name Notice
- Notice Date
- 7/25/2008
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 511210
— Software Publishers
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Mobility Command, 6th Contracting Squadron, 2606 Brown Pelican Ave., MacDill AFB, Florida, 33621-5000, United States
- ZIP Code
- 33621-5000
- Solicitation Number
- F2VUJ08185AC06N
- Archive Date
- 8/16/2008
- Point of Contact
- Stephen C Colton, Phone: 813-828-6570, Joseph D Sherwood,, Phone: 813-828-0280
- E-Mail Address
-
stephen.colton@macdill.af.mil, joseph.sherwood@macdill.af.mil
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS. This is a notice of intent to award a brand name procurement under statutory authority 10 USC 2304(c)(1), set forth in Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1, "Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy Agency Requirements." United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), 7701 Tampa Point Blvd, Tampa, FL 33621, requires the purchase of Encase Forensic Software. The 6th Contracting Squadron intends to make a firm fixed price award, with options, for Encase Forensic Software. Interested parties may e-mail stephen.colton@macdill.af.mil or fax 813-828-6967, Attn: Stephen Colton, not later than Friday, 01 August, 2008, 4:00 p.m. EST. The proposed contract action is for supplies or services for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate for only one brand name under the authority of FAR 6.302. Interested persons may request or provide information. All information received within five days after date of publication of this synopsis will be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete with this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. DEMONSTRATION THAT THE CONTRACTORS UNIQUE QUALIFICATIONS OR NATURE OF THE ACQUISITION REQUIRES THE USE OF THE AUTHORITY CITED ABOVE (APPLICABILITY OF AUTHORITY) Encase Enterprise Forensic Suite software provides USSOCOM the capability to monitor, investigate, remediate and protect all networks against malicious intrusion, security incidents and cyber attacks. The software allows USSOCOM to meet the following requirements: • rapidly and thoroughly investigate computer incidents occurring on nodes within USSOCOM's networks regardless of location to include unique closed networks and standalone systems • respond to IDS alerts to verify device(s) compromised • identify deviations from system baselines during INFOCON support to verify integrity of critical devices • dramatically reduce time and costs related to investigating and resolving network-wide incident(s) while dramatically increasing the security posture of the information and information systems contained therein • ensure policy compliance on all workstations and servers • proactively and reactively locate and eliminate classified data spillage that has strayed to a network of lower classification • proactively identify and address internal and external network security, information assurance, and counterintelligence threats before they erupt into significant events • locate, analyze, and capture data in a forensically sound fashion from any network-connected node • identify unauthorized active programs running on the network, such as peer-to-peer communications, covert channels, and alternate data streams • coordinate more effectively with criminal and counterintelligence investigators when investigating an incident • Comply more thoroughly and at lower cost with Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002 and the resulting NIST interpretation detailed in the Special Publication 800-61, Computer Security Incident Handling Guide The acquisition of the maintenance support for the current key licenses will ensure that USSOCOM continues to have the ability to provide operational forensic analysis and remediation at a level of acceptability required by DISA and DoD directives/mandates. The Encase Enterprise software provides a highly specialized capability not surpassed by any other application available to resolve, isolate and cleanup contaminated areas dealing with security incidents and events of interest at a level and scope required to support USSOCOM's networks. Therefore, this acquisition will be a follow-on contract for the continued performance of a highly specialized service/software. The Encase Enterprise software allows the analyst/technician the ability to access multiple files/folders across an array of servers storing terabytes of data, in a limited amount of time to isolate data needed to be extracted and cleaned to meet NSA, DIA and DISA standards for proper handling of data spills. No other tool on the market can provide this level of discovery and remediation. The Encase software that is being used is also embedded as a module interface in a DoD/Joint Staff downward directed program which allows the ability to further enhance our current capabilities by also protecting workstations and devices on the network. To award to any other source would result in substantial duplication of cost to the Government that is not expected to be recovered through full and open competition. The approximate cost of the duplication effort would be $466,086.00. These costs are based on expenditures under the current contract that would be incurred to gain a level of operational acceptance by the government for contractors and government employees, if a new system were to be put into place. The cost that would not be recovered through full and open competition involve resources for testing and operational readiness (certification and accreditation, operational compatibility and continuity) with the current network architecture and the risk associated to downtime and lack of coverage during a replacement phase of new technology. Qty Cost Total Offsite training 6hrs. $1,995.00 $11,970.00 Man-hours expended 160hrs. $106.00 $16,960.00 Travel (TDY Expenditures) 6hrs. $1,050.00 $6,300.00 Installation 1 $15,000.00 $15,000.00 Basic Edition - manhours expended 192hrs. $106.00 $20,352.00 IA Suite - manhours expended 64hrs. $106.00 $6,784.00 Extended On-site Group Training 120hrs. $106.00 $12,720.00 Initial Purchase w/on-site maintenance 2ea. $188,000.00 $376,000.00 TOTAL $466,086.00
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Macdill AFB, Tampa, Florida, 33621, United States
- Zip Code: 33621
- Zip Code: 33621
- Record
- SN01623664-W 20080727/080725224246-3b1b162e68d91f8bbb883d72f7343924 (fbodaily.com)
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