SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- Forescout Software Maintenance - Justification and Approval
- Notice Date
- 8/15/2016
- Notice Type
- Justification and Approval (J&A)
- NAICS
- 511210
— Software Publishers
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, National Guard Bureau, USPFO for Oklahoma, 3501 Military Circle, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73111-4398
- ZIP Code
- 73111-4398
- Solicitation Number
- W912L6-16-T-0015
- Archive Date
- 9/16/2016
- Point of Contact
- John B. Merlette, Phone: 4052285573
- E-Mail Address
-
john.b.merlette.mil@mail.mil
(john.b.merlette.mil@mail.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Justification and Approval - Brand Name Justification for Other than Full and Open Competition - Brand Name 1. IAW with FAR 6.303-1(a) this justification for other than full and open competition is written. FAR 6.303-1(a) States: "A contracting officer shall not commence negotiations for a sole source contract, commence negotiations for a contract resulting from an unsolicited proposal, or award any other contract without providing for full and open competition unless the contracting officer- (1) Justifies, if required in 6.302, the use of such actions in writing; (2) Certifies the accuracy and completeness of the justification; and (3) Obtains the approval required by 6.304. 2. CONTRACTING AGENCY - The contracting agency responsible for this action is the Oklahoma National Guard, United States Property & Fiscal Office- Purchasing and Contracting, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 3. DESCRIPTION OF SUPPLIES/SERVICES - FourScout CounterAct Virtual Machine, warranties and professional services. 4. Authority Cited - Pursuant to FAR 6.302-1(c) Application for brand name descriptions circumstances permitting other than full and open competition, includes the limitation of competition to a specific brand or features offered by only one brand and states "An acquisition that uses a brand name description...does not provide for full and open competition regardless of the number of sources solicited. It shall be justified and approved in accordance with FAR 6.303 and 6.304. The justification should indicate that the use of such descriptions in the acquisition is essential to the Government's requirements, thereby precluding the consideration of a product manufactured by another company." 4. REASON FOR AUTHORITY CITED - The following is a brand name justification for the purchase of ForeScout VM CounterACT, warranties and professional services. For items d thru m below; either very few or no other competitors can accomplish these requirements. No other product outside of ForeScout CounterACT can accomplish all of these tasks in a single product offering. a. The Network Operations Management Branch (OKNG-IMO-NOC, SA, IA) within the J6 of the OKARNG is required to provide Network Access Control that allows each branch to see, monitor and control network devices, operating systems, applications and users. ForeScout CounterACT lets employees, contractors, and guests remain productive on the network while protecting critical network resources and sensitive data. These pieces are instrumental to prevent data exfiltration and assists in providing analysis on the C2 network. b. The CounterAct suite of products meet the requirement for the G6 IA Defensein-Depth (DiD) network security and monitoring platform. The products reduce redundancy, increase capabilities, provide centralized management, and incorporate mechanisms for integrated reporting. These product features are critical to the success of DiD. c. The CounterAct suite provides granular control of Army computer information systems down to the physical port level. Access to Army resources can be better secured, maintained and accounted for with this technology. This software will be used to scan assets in real time to determine if it is compliant. If the device is not compliant, it will be remediated to a quarantined network and compliant assets will be given access. CounterAct is unlike other systems, this system will continually check connected assets to ensure compliance is maintained. The system can also be used to generate multiple reports, i.e., usage, assets, detailed metrics, etc. d. This device is the only Network Access Controller on the Army IA Approved Tool list. e. The CounterAct suite provides a single (Manager of Manager) solution for enterprise level situational awareness and Security Content Automation Protocol/Asset Reporting Format reporting. No other known device has this ability. f. The CounterAct solution is switch vendor compatible, supporting Cisco, Brocade, Juniper, Enterasys, HP, as well as other generic switches. This solution would support a change of switch vendors in the future should the DoD change their switch standard. g. CounterAct supports access control at the virtual (vSwitch) level to include either changing the vSwitch or Port Group a virtual host is on, shutting down the vNIC, or even shutting down the VM. h. CounterAct supports User and Device authentication without requirements for 802.1x or agents and on unmanaged switches. i. CounterAct supports agentless (eg, through use of WMI, RPC/SMB, SSH) endpoint compliance validation/interrogation and remediation of Windows, Linux and OSX endpoints. j. CounterAct provides a certified bi-directional integration with ePolicy Orchestrator/HBSS, where the solution can serve as a Rogue System Detection (RSD) sensor for VLANs and subnets where RSD sensors are not deployed. k. CounterAct Integrates directly with Microsoft system Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). l. CounterAct integrates bi-directionally with ACAS to validate compliance of vulnerability scan time requirement and, if found non-compliant, initiate vulnerability scan upon device's admission to the network. m. CounterAct meets the management data encryption requirements IAW FIPS 140-2 for command and control traffic. 5. EFFORTS TO OBTAIN COMPETITION - Requirement for FourScout CounterAct and warranty will be solicited on ARMY Computer Hardware, Enterprise Software and Solutions (CHESS).
- Web Link
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FBO.gov Permalink
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- Place of Performance
- Address: 3503 Military Circle, OKC, Oklahoma, 73111, United States
- Zip Code: 73111
- Zip Code: 73111
- Record
- SN04223513-W 20160817/160815234740-1b79a0e41d3c79657d53bc8f62ebb42b (fbodaily.com)
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