SPECIAL NOTICE
R -- NIST Public Cloud Service Provider Sole Source Notice of Intent
- Notice Date
- 8/28/2012
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541512
— Computer Systems Design Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 1640, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1640, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1640
- Solicitation Number
- NB180000-12-05117
- Archive Date
- 9/28/2012
- Point of Contact
- Willie W. Lu, Phone: 3019758259, Chon S. Son, Phone: 301-975-8567
- E-Mail Address
-
willie.lu@nist.gov, chon.son@nist.gov
(willie.lu@nist.gov, chon.son@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Subject: NIST Public Cloud Service Provider Sole Source Notice of Intent Reference Number: NB180000-12-05117 Notice Type: Special Notice- Notice of Intent Synopsis: The Enterprise Systems Division (ESD) of the Office of Information Systems Management (OISM) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has initiated an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) project to provide the ability to host applications, servers, and storage space and provide access to these resources on demand in a government community cloud environment. NIST is seeking to obtain Federal Community Cloud services that will provide an on-demand, self-service IaaS offering to NIST OISM's customers. The goal is to establish consolidated and integrated public service delivery capability for Development/Testing that will streamline the implementation and support of NIST websites, virtual machines, and applications to the Public Cloud. NIST seeks a Cloud Service Provider to deliver cloud storage and virtual machine services in a Federal Community Cloud. The purpose of this acquisition is to obtain IaaS in a Public Cloud environment that contains all required security, service delivery and hosting capabilities necessary to effectively support the development, testing, quality assurance, and production needs of NIST. The IaaS solution shall provide NIST with the following: • Identify the challenges presented in implementing/offering private, public, and hybrid cloud-based IaaS capabilities in NIST's environment • Identify chargeback, network, and security strategies for an on-demand self-service infrastructure • Identify cloud platform virtualization layer requirements • Identify cloud management layer requirements • Identify the challenges in migrating virtual servers among on-premise and off-premise IaaS providers • Understand interoperability between NIST Private cloud and provider's community cloud • Increase OISM expertise in Cloud Computing deployment models • Develop an architectural design for an OISM IaaS cloud The required cloud environment with appropriate security parameters exist in the GSA laaS offering. All work and services shall be performed in accordance with the terms and conditions in the Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA), numbered QTA010MAB0016, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) for Infrastructure as a Service. Furthermore, NIST is acquiring this requirement among the GSA laaS BPA holders that have a completed GSA sponsored Authorization to Operate (ATO) under the BPA. The GSA laaS BPA contains 12 vendors listed as awardees. Of this short list of approved vendors, Apptis is the only vendor who has been granted an ATO from GSA as of May 1, 2012 for both Cloud Storage and Virtual Machines services. With a dedicated focus on Cloud Storage and Virtual Machines, as well as being the only ATO holder for this secure environment, Apptis has created a solution that is not available through any other competitive offerings. The NAICS Code is 541512 with a Size Standard of $25.5M dollars. NIST anticipates negotiating and awarding a firm-fixed-price purchase order to Apptis for this requirement. Interested parties that believe they could satisfy the requirements listed above for NIST may clearly and unambiguously identify their capability to do so in writing on or before the response date for this notice. This notice of intent is not a solicitation. Information submitted in response to this notice will be used solely to determine whether competitive procedures could be used for this acquisition. Any questions regarding this notice must be submitted in writing via email to Willie Lu at willie.lu@nist.gov. All responses to this notice of intent must be submitted so that they are received at willie.lu@nist.gov no later than September 4, 2012 at 2:00 pm Eastern Time. Contracting Office Address: 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 1640 Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-1640 Place of Performance: 100 Bureau Drive Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899 Primary Point of Contact: Willie Lu, Contract Specialist Willie.lu@nist.gov Phone: 301-975-8259 Fax: 301-975-8904
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOC/NIST/AcAsD/NB180000-12-05117/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: NIST, 100 Bureau Dr., Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, United States
- Zip Code: 20899
- Zip Code: 20899
- Record
- SN02859090-W 20120830/120829001107-002bb8bb3c2383cb88d3b6864a8f0350 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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