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FBO DAILY - FEDBIZOPPS ISSUE OF JUNE 25, 2016 FBO #5328
DOCUMENT

99 -- TAC-16-29002 SAS Grid Software - Attachment

Notice Date

6/23/2016
 

Notice Type

Attachment
 

NAICS

334111 — Electronic Computer Manufacturing
 

Contracting Office

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

ZIP Code

07724
 

Solicitation Number

VA11816Q1137
 

Archive Date

7/17/2016
 

Point of Contact

Dawn Eimont
 

E-Mail Address

0-9638<br
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Award Number

GS-35F-0170K VA118-16-F-1071
 

Award Date

6/17/2016
 

Awardee

EXECUTIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS, LLC;6901 ROCKLEDGE DRIVE STE 600;BETHESDA;MD;20817
 

Award Amount

$426,476.51
 

Description

LIMITED-SOURCES JUSTIFICATION 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 sole source delivery order issued under General Service Administration (GSA) Information Technology (IT) 70 Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract number GS-35F-0170K with Executive Information Systems, LLC (EIS) located at 6901 Rockledge Dr., Suite 600, Bethesda, Maryland 20817. 3. Description of the Supplies or Services: VA, Office of Information and Technology, Veterans Informatics and Computing Infrastructure (VINCI) program, has a requirement for additional brand name Statistical Analysis System (SAS) Grid software licenses with maintenance support. The required software licenses are in support of existing data analysis activities serving the research users within the VA VINCI environment. The VINCI program is a partnership between VA, Office of Information and Technology, and the Veterans Health Administration Office of Research and Development. VINCI provides the storage and server technologies to securely host suites of medical and clinical research databases integrated from select national data sources. Researchers access the data along with the tools for reporting and analysis in a secure, virtual working environment. SAS Grid software is part of the VINCI program mission to provide custom software tools to be used by researchers within VINCI's secure computing environments. Maintenance of the existing licenses is required to receive software upgrades and support. The period of performance shall be 6/30/2016 to 6/29/2017. 4. Authority: This acquisition is conducted under the authority of the Multiple-Award Schedule Program. The specific authority providing for a limited source award is Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 8.405-6(a)(1)(i)(B), "Only one source is capable of providing the supplies or services required at the level of quality required because the supplies or services are unique or highly specialized." 5. Rationale Supporting Use of Authority Cited Above: As detailed in section 8 of this justification, SAS Grid Software is the only software product that meets the VA's requirements for the following reasons: SAS enables VA researchers to analyze and extract meaningful information from extremely large data sets (up to five terabyte); only SAS has the performance and capability for handling the vast amounts of data required by VA; only SAS has sufficient support to ensure VA has the required availability and reliability of the SAS Grid. While there are currently other software products available that claim to have similar capabilities, such as those identified in paragraph 8, the Government has determined that these software products will not meet the Government's needs for data availability, reliability and product support of the existing SAS licenses. Additionally, the VINCI environment contains a large body of code written in the SAS proprietary language/code. As this code will only run in the SAS software environment, there are no equivalent products available. No other vendor can provide the required maintenance due to the proprietary nature of the SAS software that is currently fielded and operating in the VINCI environment. The support is vital to maintain the SAS installation so that researchers can use the software to query data to improve Veteran Care outcomes. 6. Efforts to Obtain Competition: Market research was conducted, details of which are in section 8 of this justification. There is no competition anticipated for this acquisition. Based on market research, EIS is the only authorized reseller of SAS Analytics software licenses and maintenance. This justification shall be published along with the request for quotation to the GSA e-Buy website in accordance with FAR 8.405-6(b)(3). Additionally, in accordance with FAR 5.301 and 8.405-6(a)(2), the resulting notice of award will be synopsized and this justification will be made publicly available on the Federal Business Opportunities Page within 14 days after award. 7. Actions to Increase Competition: In order to remove or overcome barriers to competition in future acquisitions for this requirement, the agency will work with the program office to perform additional market research to enable future actions to be fully competed. 8. Market Research: The Government's technical experts performed market research in December 2015 and revalidated in February 2016. The market research included a thorough review of various websites and trade publications and discussions with data managers and researchers in VA to ascertain if there are other similar items that can meet the Government's requirements. Specifically, VA technical experts researched statistical software packages such as Social Sciences, Stata and R, Oracle, and Informatica; however, none of these software packages offer interoperability and code compatibility with the current VINCI platform. Only SAS software meets all of VA's functional needs as described in the previous paragraphs. The aforementioned software products offer a limited array of analytics and none of them offers a grid-enabled high-performance computing environment which is crucial to meeting the Government's requirements. Based on this market research, it was determined that only SAS software can meet all of the Government's requirements and EIS is the only authorized reseller of SAS software and maintenance. 9. Other Facts: None.
 

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Attachment
 

File Name: GS-35F-0170K VA118-16-F-1071 GS-35F-0170K VA118-16-F-1071_1.docx (https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=2824710&FileName=GS-35F-0170K-015.docx)

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