SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- One year license V6Sonar Monitoring Service
- Notice Date
- 12/23/2015
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541511
— Custom Computer Programming Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, 6707 Democracy Blvd., Suite 105, Bethesda, Maryland, 20894, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20894
- Solicitation Number
- NIHLM2016738
- Archive Date
- 1/14/2016
- Point of Contact
- Anthony M. Best, Phone: 3018278185
- E-Mail Address
-
besta@mail.nih.gov
(besta@mail.nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Notice Type: Small Business Sources Sought Solicitation Number: NIHNLM2016738. Description: V6Sonar Monitoring Service. Synopsis: This Sources Sought Notice is for informational and planning purposes only and shall not be construed as a solicitation or as an obligation or commitment by the Government. This notice is intended strictly for Market Research. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR QUOTE (RFQ). NO SOLICITATION EXISTS AT THIS TIME. This is a Small Business Sources Sought Notice. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. The purpose of this notice is to obtain information regarding: (1) the availability and capability of qualified small business sources; (2) whether they are small businesses; HUBZone small businesses; service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses; (8)a small businesses; veteran-owned small businesses; woman-owned small businesses; or small disadvantaged businesses; and (3) their size classification relative to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for the proposed acquisition. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 541511- Custom Computer Programming Services with a small business standard of $25.5. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine (NLM) is conducting a Market Survey to help determine the availability and technical capability of qualified small businesses, veteran-0wned small business, service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses and/or HUBZone small businesses capable of serving the needs identified below. Background: The National Library of Medicine (NLM) provides efficient, cost-effective information technology services in support of the research and management programs offered through the National Institutes of Health. The Office of Computer and Communications Systems (OCCS) develops and provides the NLM backbone computer networking facilities, and supports, guides, and assists other NLM components in local area networking. The Division provides professional programming services and computational and data processing facilities to meet the NLM program needs; operates and maintains the NLM Computer Center; designs and develops software; and provides extensive support, training courses and seminars, and documentation for computer and network users. Objectives: V6Sonar is the only platform that was developed from the ground up specifically to collect information on web services synthetic User Experience (UX) over IPv4 and IPv6. V6Sonar is a SaaS offering that uses easy to install and manage agents that execute workflows specific to monitored services, measuring all load times relevant to determining the UX for that service. Interested firms responding to this sources sought notice must adhere to the following to include one year license for the v6Sonar 25 agent package. The following is offered under the license: (a) Service includes 25 private agents. Description- can create up to 25 private instances of the v6Sonar agent, user is provided with an installer or an OVA, can monitor up to 50 URLs per agent, each URL polled as often as every 5 minutes. (b) Service includes 10 system agents. Description- can use up to 10 of the Global System Agents managed by Nephos6, can monitor up to 10 URLs per system agent, each URL polled as often as every 5 minutes. (c) Service includes Data Retention. Description- v6Sonar will retain data for 30 days. (d) Service includes Data Access. Description v6Sonar will provide and maintain an API that enables the user to pull data collected by the v6Sonar platform under the user account, data can be pulled from the v6Sonar database as often as hourly. (e) Service includes Support. Description Any OS, Multiple packages (OVA, etc), collectors on embedded platforms. Depending on the duration of the workflow, the platform can poll as often as 30 seconds. Data can be retained for a longer period of time. (f) All capability statements must be submitted electronically no later than 12:00 noon EST on Wednesday, December 30, 2015 to Anthony Best at besta@mail.nih.gov. Disclaimer and Important Notes: This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information provided in response. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization's qualifications to perform the work. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. After a review of the responses received, a pre-solicitation synopsis and solicitation may be published in Federal Business Opportunities. However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a solicitation. Confidentiality: No proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should be included in your response. The Government reserves the right to use any non-proprietary technical information in any resultant solicitation(s).
- Web Link
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FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/NIH/OAM/NIHLM2016738/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: NIH, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bdg 38A, Bethesda, Maryland, 20748, United States
- Zip Code: 20748
- Zip Code: 20748
- Record
- SN03976905-W 20151225/151223234007-c5e813b8af1e74c591a76da112aca177 (fbodaily.com)
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