SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- Cloud-Based Drupal Hosting Environment and Operations Support
- Notice Date
- 8/22/2014
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 518210
— Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B130, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1410, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1410
- Solicitation Number
- NB183000-14-02730
- Archive Date
- 9/20/2014
- Point of Contact
- Todd D Hill, Phone: 301-975-8802
- E-Mail Address
-
todd.hill@nist.gov
(todd.hill@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), intends to negotiate, on a sole source basis, under authority of FAR 6.302-1, with Acquia, BURLINGTON, MA, to provide Cloud-Based Drupal Hosting Environment and Operations Support. Sole Source determination is based on the following: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) approved the plan to migrate its public facing website, www.nist.gov, to Drupal utilizing a cloud-based platform. In order to perform its online communications mission more effectively, the project focuses on building a content rich NIST public facing website which provides a simplified and more user-friendly approach for existing and new users. It is imperative that NIST utilizes its public facing web site as a platform for communicating new research developments, public-private collaboration, recent news, and other industry specific information. In the past year, NIST initiated an internal Drupal Web Content Management (WCM) pilot project to acquire the necessary experience and to identify the requirements needed to migrate the NIST public facing website to a Cloud-based Drupal Platform as a Service. In order to prepare the to-be developed public facing website for the production deployment, NIST seeks to acquire a contractor to provide a cloud-based Drupal hosting environment and operations support. Acquia is a commercial open source software company based in US providing products, services, and technical support for the open source Drupal framework. It provides a Drupal Platform as a Service (PaaS) in the Cloud with an optimized LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, and PHP) stack. Acquia manages all 10 layers of the PaaS model. Acquia manages every aspect of the stack, from front-end load balancers to wbe servers, databases, filesystems, and storage. Acquia is the only company that received a second Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) Authorization to Operate (ATO) for federal customers using Acquia Cloud. It is the first provider to offer enterprise Drupal cloud services with a FISMA moderate ATO. Acquia included FedRAMP controls in its FISMA documentation. Acquia is currently in the process of receiving a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) authorization for providing its Drupal Cloud hosting services. Acquia is officially in the FedRAMP "on-process board" (on Ramp). SSP submitted to DoT (FedRAMP's sponsoring agency to submit an offering for FedRAMP authorization) and hired a Third Party Assessment Organization (3PAO) to create and submit an authorization package and to perform an assessment of the system. In addition, Acquia Cloud is built on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and utilizes Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). The Amazon EC2 has received a FedRAMP authorization. Acquia is the only company to offer a fully managed, FISMA Moderate and DIACAP compliant "Drupal Platform as a Service" in the Cloud and is therefore the only company that can meet the Government's minimum requirements. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 518210, and the size standard is $32.5M. No solicitation package will be issued. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations; however, the Government will consider responses received by 5 September 2014, 3pm EDT. A determination by the Government not to compete the proposed acquisition based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement.
- Web Link
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- Place of Performance
- Address: NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, United States
- Zip Code: 20899
- Zip Code: 20899
- Record
- SN03477484-W 20140824/140822235717-c6e9077fdbdfc1affe7f7258de31e26f (fbodaily.com)
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