SPECIAL NOTICE
D -- NETFusion's Athene SW Maintenance Renewal
- Notice Date
- 9/29/2013
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 511210
— Software Publishers
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), National Office Procurement (OS:A:P), 6009 Oxon Hill Road, Suite 500, Oxon Hill, Maryland, 20745
- ZIP Code
- 20745
- Solicitation Number
- NETFusion-Q4QF4200W00
- Archive Date
- 10/1/2013
- Point of Contact
- Valerie A Robinson, Phone: 202-283-1333
- E-Mail Address
-
valerie.robinson@irs.gov
(valerie.robinson@irs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to issue a sole source firm-fixed price purchase order for the below list of software maintenance of Athene/Unix & Windows software tools to NETfusion, Inc. Purchase of software maintenance for the Athene/Unix & Windows software tools. Purchase includes the following line items: (1) Control Center (FY13) Software Maintenance, 12 months of maintenance, 4 each, (2) Sentinal (FY13) Software Maintenance, 12 months of maintenance, 1 each, (3) Explorer (FY13) Software Maintenance, 12 months of maintenance, 6 each, (4) Analyst (FY13) Software Maintenance, 12 months of maintenance, 6 each, (5) Planner (FY13) Software Maintenance, 12 months of maintenance, 6 each, (6) Auto Reporter (FY13) Software Maintenance, 12 months of maintenance, 2 each, (7) Trend (FY13) Software Maintenance, 12 months of maintenance, 1 each, (8) Acquires Enterprise License, (FY13) Software Maintenance, 12 months of maintenance, unlimited license, and (9) Technical Services (FY13) Software Maintenance, 12 months of maintenance, 10 each.. The period of performance is 10/1/13 - 9/30/14. This purchase order will be made on a sole source basis under the authority of FAR Part 6.302-1 (a) - only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. The anticipated value of the order is $179,260. Justification for Other Than Full and Other Competition: "The Athene/Unix & Windows will be used to perform an entire spectrum of data collection, data warehousing, performance alerting, performance analysis, modeling, capacity planning and detailed long term statistical analysis. The continued maintenance and support services for the current Athene/Unix & Windows software tools are necessary to in order to carry out the necessary capacity analysis support required without interruption or system down time. The use of Athene/Unix & Windows software tools is essential to the Government's requirements, thereby precluding consideration of a product manufactured by another company. The IRS Tier II Capacity Management Section has identified NETfusion, Inc of Brookeville, MD as the sole source for the Athene/Unix software system (including Athene, Control Center, Sentinel, Explorer, Analyst, Planner, Auto Report, Trend, Custom DB and Acquire)- along with all its components and services. The software and the modules are proprietary to NETfusion. NETfusion does not have any authorized resellers and therefore, is the only responsible source." The notice will of intent to award to NETfusion will be posted on FedBizOpps in accordance with FAR 5.2. The Contracting Officer will determine the costs to the Government to be fair and reasonable. Market research was conducted and it was determined that only NetFusion can provide the required software maintenance as NetFusion does not have any authorized resellers and the software is proprietary. No sources have expressed an interest, in writing, in the acquisition. The IRS will continue to search the marketplace for authorized resellers of the Athene software products. However, as long as NetFusion is the only source for the Athene Enterprise Software products, the IRS will need to sole source the requirement to NetFusion. However in the meantime, as new products come on the market place, the IRS will evaluate those products and consider a future competitive acquisition. The Contracting officer certifies that the justification is accurate and complete to the best of the contracting officer's knowledge and belief. Responsible sources who believe they can provide the required products may submit a written capability statement, via email, by 3:00pm ET on September 30, 2013. Telephone inquiries will be considered non-responsive. No solicitation will be issued, therefore, requests for solicitations will be considered non-responsive. If no responses are received the award will be made to NETfusion, Inc.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/TREAS/IRS/NOPAP/NETFusion-Q4QF4200W00/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: IRS, 5000 Ellin Road, RM A2-336, Lanham, Maryland, 20706, United States
- Zip Code: 20706
- Zip Code: 20706
- Record
- SN03206712-W 20131001/130929233317-25e4d558c0d5db2236b9098977de9ceb (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
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