SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- NIST Drupal Cloud Hosting Services
- Notice Date
- 12/14/2017
- Notice Type
- Fair Opportunity / Limited Sources Justification
- NAICS
- 541519
— Other Computer 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
- SB134118NC0041
- Archive Date
- 1/13/2018
- Point of Contact
- Hing Pan Wong, Phone: 3019756289
- E-Mail Address
-
Hnw6@nist.gov
(Hnw6@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Award Number
- GS-35F-0119Y
- Award Date
- 12/12/2017
- Description
- This Limited Source Justification is posted in accordance with FAR 8.405-6(2). The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently migrated its public facing website to Drupal utilizing a cloud-based platform. NIST would like to build on this successful project by continuing to consolidate numerous internal and external web properties into its Drupal cloud-based host environment. Additionally, NIST's Web Content Management (WCM) team has been tasked to perform more and more as the consolidations move forward. This requires NIST's WCM team to have access to the tools that will allow the team to continually improve and scale the site as well as the ability to add resources to the site as necessary. To do this, NIST needs a flexible acquisition mechanism to allow us to take advantage of the Cloud's ability to scale as resource needs change or to add resources that were not part of the original plan. This requires NIST to seek a cloud host that will provide the tools, resources, and computing cycles that will allow us to fulfill our web communications mission. Acquia is the first company to receive a Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) Authorization to Operate (ATO) for federal customers using Acquia Cloud. It is one of the two providers to offer enterprise Drupal cloud services with a FISMA moderate ATO. In 2016, NIST spent significate amount of resources to migrate its primary websites to a Drupal Cloud hosted environment. Drupal is an open source content management software maintained and developed by a community of over one million users and developers. It is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, which means anyone is free to download it and share it with others. This open development model means that people are constantly working to make sure Drupal is a cutting-edge platform that supports the latest Web technologies. The Drupal platform encourages modularity, standards, collaboration, and ease-of-use. The Government's market research identified one other vendor with the capability to provide Drupal Cloud hosting services, Blackmesh. However, the Government determined that Blackmesh does not meet the Government's requirements after additional testing of the product. As such, the Government's market research determined that only Drupal Cloud Hosting Services through Acquia meets the Government's security and functionality requirements. Carahsoft Technology has certified to be the sole GSA schedule holder offering Acquia products and services. It serves as Acquia's master GSA schedule holder and aggregator for US Federal Government Sales (GSA Schedule #: GS-35F-0119Y). An award was made to Carahsoft Technology, GSA Schedule #: GS-35F-0119Y, on 12/12/17 for Drupal Cloud Hosting Services.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOC/NIST/AcAsD/SB134118NC0041/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20855, United States
- Zip Code: 20855
- Zip Code: 20855
- Record
- SN04766850-W 20171216/171214230916-5442c6f95f30d743217ce6b44112d444 (fbodaily.com)
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