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FBO DAILY - FEDBIZOPPS ISSUE OF JUNE 16, 2016 FBO #5319
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D -- Biomed Vblock Storage Augmentation - Attachment

Notice Date

6/14/2016
 

Notice Type

Attachment
 

NAICS

541519 — Other Computer Related Services
 

Contracting Office

Department of Veterans Affairs;Technology Acquisition Center;23 Christopher Way;Eatontown NJ 07724
 

ZIP Code

07724
 

Solicitation Number

VA11816Q1017
 

Archive Date

8/13/2016
 

Point of Contact

Joseph.Pignataro@va.gov
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Award Number

NNG15SD26B VA118-16-F-1058
 

Award Date

6/14/2016
 

Awardee

THUNDERCAT TECHNOLOGY, LLC;1925 ISAAC NEWTON SQ STE 180;RESTON;VA;20190
 

Award Amount

$981,473.56
 

Description

JUSTIFICATION FOR AN EXCEPTION TO FAIR OPPORTUNITY 1. Contracting Activity:Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Acquisition Operations Technology Acquisition Center 23 Christopher Way Eatontown, New Jersey 07724 2. Description of Action: The proposed action is for a firm-fixed price delivery order to be issued under the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) V Governmentwide Acquisition Contract (GWAC). 3. Description of the Supplies or Services: The proposed action is to provide storage which includes 12 months of associated maintenance for eight existing brand name Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) vBlock 340 systems at the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) 8. The Contractor shall provide six small site configurations and two large site configurations for eight VCE vBlocks. This system is host for over 300 virtual machines and expansion to additional systems (e.g. Sleep Lap, Cardiology Picture Archiving Communications System, etc.) is required. The Contractor shall deliver one storage system consisting of eight vBlocks and all associated hardware 60 days from the date of contract award. All installations, setup, and configurations of the Storage System shall be completed 90 days from the date of contract award. Maintenance of the hardware includes a 24x7 onsite service commitment with a response time of four hours and technical phone support 24x7x365. The total estimated price of the proposed action is 4. Statutory Authority: The statutory authority permitting an exception to fair opportunity is 41 U.S.C. 4106(c)(2) as implemented by Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 16.505(b)(2)(i)(B) entitled, "Only one awardee is capable of providing the supplies or services required at the level of quality required because the supplies or services ordered are unique or highly specialized." 5. Rationale Supporting Use of Authority Cited Above: Based on the market research, as described in section 8 of this justification, it was determined that limited competition is viable among authorized resellers for storage for brand name VCE vBlock340 systems. Brand name Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) vBlock 340 equipment is already in place in VISN 8 for biomedical engineering. VCE is the only brand that can meet all VA's technical requirements to include interoperability and compatibility of existing VCE storage infrastructure. Specifically, VCE storage is the only product capable of providing additional Disk Storage Arrays (DAE) which are fully compatible with the existing storage systems, data mover enclosures, disk-array enclosures and control stations. System connectors from other manufacturers are not are physically compatible and won't work with the current existing storage system. No other product will provide storage array shelves that will be operational with the current storage systems back end. Therefore, no other solution is interoperable or compatible with the existing VCE storage arrays installed at VA medical centers. 6. Efforts to Obtain Competition: Market research was conducted, details of which are in the market research section of this document. In accordance with FAR 5.301 and 16.505(b)(2)(ii)(D), the resulting contract award will be announced on the Federal Business Opportunities Page, and this Justification for an Exception to Fair Opportunity will be made publicly available since the estimated value of this action is more than $150,000. This Justification for an Exception to Fair Opportunity will be posted on the NASA SEWP V website with the solicitation. 7. Actions to Increase Competition: In order to remove or overcome barriers to competition in future acquisitions for this requirement, the Government will continue to perform market research to determine if there are any new maintenance services and systems available that will enable future requirements to be competed. 8. Market Research: The Government's technical experts conducted market research in February 2016 by reviewing other similar storage hardware products, to include those provided by EMC Corporation, International Business Machines (IBM), Hewlett Packard, NetApp and Dell. The market research, which was conducted by a review of industry websites, discussions with third party contractors, and analysis of storage array product offerings, demonstrated that other Original Equipment Manufacturers do not provide DAEs that are technically compatible with the existing VCE infrastructure. Based on the market research conducted, the Government's technical experts determined that no other vendor can provide the storage array enclosure for the existing VCE 5400 storage systems as the researched NetApp and Dell enclosures were not technically compatible with the VCE hardware systems. Additionally, in April 2016, the Contract Specialist conducted market research to ascertain the extent of limited competition among resellers. Through use of the Provider Look-up tool on the NASA SEWP V GWAC website, numerous resellers of the required VCE storage for vBlock 340 systems were identified that could possibly meet VA's needs. Therefore limited competition is anticipated. 9. Other Facts: None
 

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Document(s)

Attachment
 

File Name: NNG15SD26B VA118-16-F-1058 NNG15SD26B VA118-16-F-1058_1.docx (https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=2801410&FileName=NNG15SD26B-032.docx)

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Record

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