SPECIAL NOTICE
70 -- Point Audit software maintenance
- Notice Date
- 7/31/2012
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 511210
— Software Publishers
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, Maryland, 20910
- ZIP Code
- 20910
- Solicitation Number
- NEEB1000-12-02784PMF
- Archive Date
- 8/29/2012
- Point of Contact
- Patricia McBride-Finneran, Phone: 301-734-1239
- E-Mail Address
-
patricia.mcbride-finneran@noaa.gov
(patricia.mcbride-finneran@noaa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Department of Commerce intends to issue a sole source firm fixed priced service purchase order to the Idera, Inc. formerly DBA BBS Technologies, Inc. The statutory authority for other than full and open competition is 41 USC 253(c)(1) as implemented by FAR 6.302-1, only one responsible source. Award will be made using FAR 13, Simplified Acquisition procedures the solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2005-60, effective July 26, 2012. Standard Industrial Code 7030, North American Industry Classification System Code 511210 and size standard dollar values is $23.0 million business size. This is not a solicitation for competitive quotes. However, if any other interested party believes that it can meet the requirements, it may submit a statement of capabilities, which if timely received, will be considered by NOAA. The capability statement and any other information furnished must be in writing, and must contain material in sufficient detail to allow NOAA to determine if the party can meet all of the foregoing requirements. Responses must also be accompanied by descriptive literature, warranties, and/or other information that demonstrates that the quote meets all of the foregoing requirements. Capability statements and related materials must be e-mailed to patricia.mcbride-finneran@noaa.gov by August 14, 2012, 11:00 a.m. local time. The NESDIS Office of Satellite and Product Operations (OSPO) operate ground systems for each of its missions. Ground system components for the Polar Operation Environmental Satellite Mission a national critical system of the NOAA IT inventory, are built on Hewlett Packard’s OpenVMS operating system. In conformance with direction from the NESDIS CID and security controls of NIST 800-53 OSPO must scan 95% of it OpenVMS platforms as a part of its annual Authority to Operate (ATO) assessment. Point Audit, a proprietary product of Idera, Inc. (Formerly BBS Technologies, Inc.), provides tools for the security auditing of OpenVMS platforms including port scanning, vulnerability detection, user account auditing, and others. Point Audit artifacts produced by the scans are required for closure of IT Security POAM’s. The Point Audit software is the only product that fulfills the form, fit and function requirements of OSPO at this time. Third-party support tools for the legacy Open VMS Operating system are increasingly rare and challenging to find. In order to obtain updates to Point Audit software product and to receive security updates, product patches, and technical support from Indera, Inc., OSPO is required to purchase an annual software maintenance subscription. Fulfillment of maintenance agreement services is available only form Indera, Inc. The determination to compete or not to compete the proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. The information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement.
- Web Link
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- Place of Performance
- Address: 2929 Allen Parkway, Ste 3200, Houston, Texas, 77019, United States
- Zip Code: 77019
- Zip Code: 77019
- Record
- SN02821556-W 20120802/120801000101-8793744624060e48a6bb5f7698ab09bc (fbodaily.com)
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