SOLICITATION NOTICE
70 -- Artesia Test Licenses
- Notice Date
- 4/22/2009
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 511210
— Software Publishers
- Contracting Office
- Defense Information Systems Agency, Procurement Directorate, DITCO-Scott, 2300 East Dr., Building 3600, Scott AFB, Illinois, 62225-5406, United States
- ZIP Code
- 62225-5406
- Solicitation Number
- HC1028-09-T-2115
- Archive Date
- 5/13/2009
- Point of Contact
- Lynn M. Buss, Phone: 6182299514
- E-Mail Address
-
lynn.buss@disa.mil
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- DISA/DITCO, intends to issue a sole source contract to Artesia Technologies, Inc., 700 King Farm Boulevard, Suite 400, Rockville, MD 20850. Artesia Technologies, Inc., is a branch of Open Text Corporation, which is based out of Ontario, Canda. This acquisition is to provide software maintenance and product support to Defense Visual Information (DVI) for Artesia DAM. This support consists of unlimited calls to the Support Center, no-charge upgrades to the latest versions of supported products owned by DVI, software enhancements, modifications, and fixes for said software, online access to the Support Site and an enhancement request process. The software being maintained is proprietary and protected by copyright laws. No third party maintenance is authorized. Period of performance is 1 June 2009 - 31 May 2010. The statutory authority for other than full and open competition is 10 USC 2304( c)(1), only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. Companies who can provide the above listed software maintenance renewal must complete the solicitation, HC1028-09-T-2115, available by email request to lynn.buss@disa.mil. The resultant contract will be a firm fixed price purchase order. The NAICS code is 511210 for this procurement. The justification detailing the government's essential need for Artesia DAM Software Maintenance is listed below. Upon the basis of the following justification, the Procuring Activity Competition Advocate hereby approves the use of other than full and open competition of the proposed contractual action pursuant to the authority of 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1) and FAR Part 6.302-1. Defense Media Activity/Defense Visual Information has a requirement issue a sole source purchase of Artesia DAM digital asset management application from Open Text Corporation. Open Text Corp. is the sole provider of Artesia DAM and the "adapter" software. DVI currently owns six enterprise licenses for Artesia DAM and licenses to various supplementary applications (adapters in Open Text language). Open Text's Artesia division is the sole provider of product support including bug fixes, security updates and so on. This procurement is to purchase one additional set of licenses to support a new application environment being added to DVI's Digital Asset Management System. This will provide a Test environment in addition to the existing Production and Development environments. Based on the above Information, competition is restricted to only one responsible source, Artesia Technologies, Inc.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: DMA/DVI, Alexandria, Virginia, 22314, United States
- Zip Code: 22314
- Zip Code: 22314
- Record
- SN01799666-W 20090424/090422222432-2ad1b792ab7d449fce27099670fc981a (fbodaily.com)
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