SOLICITATION NOTICE
70 -- Dell Hardware
- Notice Date
- 6/18/2013
- Notice Type
- Fair Opportunity / Limited Sources Justification
- NAICS
- 334111
— Electronic Computer Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Defense Information Systems Agency, Procurement Directorate, DITCO-Scott, 2300 East Dr., Building 3600, Scott AFB, Illinois, 62225-5406, United States
- ZIP Code
- 62225-5406
- Archive Date
- 7/18/2013
- Point of Contact
- Danette L Wesselmann, Phone: 618-229-9273
- E-Mail Address
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danette.wesselmann@disa.mil
(danette.wesselmann@disa.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Award Number
- NNG07DA44B
- Award Date
- 6/18/2013
- Description
- JUSTIFICATION & APPROVALS FOR FAR SUBPART 16.5 ACQUISITIONS Multiple Award Schedule (MAS)/Multiple Award Contract (MAC) Orders under MAC/Fair Opportunity, FAR 16.505, DFARS 216.505-70, PGI 216.505-70 BRAND-NAME JUSTIFICATION Upon the basis of the following justification, I, as the Procuring Activity Competition Advocate, hereby approve this brand-name justification for the proposed contractual action pursuant to FAR 16.505(b)(2)(i)(B), as the particular brand-name, product, or feature is essential to the Government's requirements, and market research indicates other companies' similar products, or products lacking the particular feature, do not meet, or cannot be modified to meet, the agency's needs. 1. REQUIRING AGENCY AND CONTRACTING OFFICE: Requiring Agency: Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) HQ DeCA/LEITC 1300 E Avenue Ft. Lee, VA 23801-1800 Contracting Agency: Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization (DITCO) 2300 East Drive Bldg 3600 Scott AFB, IL 62225-5406 2. NATURE/DESCRIPTION OF ACTION(S): This justification for other than full and open competition is a Firm Fixed Price (FFP) action solicited on NASA SEWP IV contract for a hardware refresh to support the DeCA virtual computing environment's infrastructure. The purchase request includes Dell PowerEdge chassis(s), Dell blade servers, Dell rack servers, peripheral components such as cabling, and warranties. The DeCA Data Center virtualization environment is exceeding its computing resource capacity limits. The vast majority of the hardware has exceeded its recommended lifecycle. To maintain current functionality and resume current business requests for future initiatives, the Data Center requires a hardware refresh for its virtual environment infrastructure. Items will be delivered to two separate locations. The items going to each location will be identified on the award document. Delivery Locations DeCA HQ DeCA West 1300 E Avenue 3401 Dogwood St. (Bldg 948) Fort Lee, VA 23801 McClellan, CA 95652 Period of Performance: Date of Award (DOA) - to one year out 3. DESCRIPTION OF SUPPLIES/SERVICES: Lifecycle replacement of end-of-life (EOL) servers supporting the DeCA virtual environment. The remaining two-thirds of the infrastructure are supported by end of life Hewlett Packard (HP) hardware that require replacement. The HP virtual environment assets are not able to support current workloads, negatively impacting performance with noted degradation in processing, performance, and response times. The data center has declared a moratorium to postpose virtual machine deployment. The poor performance directly affects the virtual environment's processing speed, memory utilization, storage accessibility, and ultimately the DeCA mission. Dell servers have become a reliable asset in DeCA's virtual computing environment. Recommending the purchase of Dell PowerEdge chassis(s), Dell blade servers, Dell rack servers, peripheral components such as cabling, and warranty support. As a federal Data Center, the DeCA strategic goal is to consolidate our physical footprint while maintaining computing power. Virtualization is the tool that will allow DeCA to reduce the amount of hardware resources needed and still provide mission partners with the same computing assets with scalability to perform the agency's mission. DeCA recommends upgrading and expanding the current baseline infrastructure of Dell products. The acquisition of the above hardware is required to fulfill the Data Center's computing resource gap, maintain sustainability, standardization, and continuity. a. Quantity of (6) PowerEdge M1000e (Chassis) b. Quantity of (8) PowerEdge R820 (Rack Server) c. Quantity of (42) PowerEdge M820 (Blade Server) d. Quantity of (10) Power Edge M620 (Blade Servers) e. Quantity of (1) Dell vCenter Management Plugin (OVF Appliance) f. Quantity of (12) Dell IO Aggregator Blade Cards. g. Quantity of (12) Dell 8G FC SAN IO Cards 4. SUPPORTING RATIONALE FOR BRAND-NAME JUSTIFICATION: The Defense Commissary Agency is the key grocery distributor for the Department of Defense service branch members and families. DeCA provides the most efficient and reliable service possible to its customers. The DeCA mission is dependent on an IT infrastructure that is stable, scalable, reliable, and cost efficient to the tax payer's dollars. DeCA has invested in a strategic plan to consolidate their IT infrastructure's footprint yet still provide reliable service and communication connectivity worldwide. The requested assets have been researched and determined suitable because of their equipped features and capabilities that would merge into DeCA's current infrastructure at a reasonable cost compared to their counterparts yet provide long term suitability and agility to sustain a consolidated virtualized environment. Integrated firmware patching utilities are required for DeCA to centrally manage its virtual assets from the VMware vCenter management console. DeCA requires the Dell VMware plug-ins for efficient system administration to include installing updates, administering system provisioning, and supporting power monitoring controls via a single user console versus manually updating 60+ servers one at a time, reducing system provisioning from hours to minutes. DeCA requires Dell's chassis management controller to support the 52 out of 60 blades servers which are chassis dependent to integrate into VMware's vCenter. It is necessary the DeCA administrators have a centralized management console to administer and troubleshoot the servers, their enclosure hardware called a chassis, and its software from one source. DeCA has already invested in government funding to establish a baseline of Dell products and VMware software to support its infrastructure and mission. The DeCA data center's goal is to invest in a product that easily integrates into our current infrastructure reducing additional costs and man-hours incurred by purchasing connectors to allow components to interoperate and reduce man-hours during system conversion and implementation times. To date the agency has made a significant investment in its data storage assets. DeCA currently utilizes EMC Storage Area Network (SAN) to support its information storage and retention requirements. Dell's Flex address feature allows DeCA to capitalize on our existing SAN technology. Utilizing Dell's Flex Address Storage Area Network (SAN) world-wide names (WWN) and network address automated profiling feature will decrease system outage times by eliminating manual storage and network configuration changes by allowing configuration settings to be programed. These required features integrate into our VMware virtualization environment, reducing provisioning and maintenance down time. DeCA requires processing and computing speeds that allow up to 40 Gigabytes of Input and output (I\O) throughput directly to the server's backplane, which is the current maximum capacity available. Dell offers this feature, commonly found in networking components but is now implemented into server blade chassis enclosures providing faster processing speeds. The memory and processor computing resources are densely compacted in each server to allow up to 1 Terabyte TB of additional power and processing capabilities to support more virtual machines, thus they are adding more in smaller packages offering improved virtualization performance. The additional throughput available from the Dell product line will provide increased operational and networking performance and faster processing speed. The Dell products also provide internal San Disk (SD) storage boot up and failover options. Network accessibility is a key component in information technology, especially to DeCA who is responsible for assets distributed at remote locations. The Dell chassis offers a feature that will support a more efficient network administration and configuration for the virtual environment. The Dell chassis enclosures do not have "onboard" switches built into the chassis as compared to their counterparts. This is an operational and cost efficient benefit to the data center because the networking configuration for a virtual environment can be easily segmented and managed by the networking department's preexisting infrastructure. This feature reduces the redundancy of having an onboard switch that would still require connection to DeCA's main switch. Due to DeCA's mission the data center must be able to provide 99.9% operational uptime for its customers. It is imperative that DeCA implements a strategic plan to acquire hardware assets that integrate into our current infrastructure and storage solution, offer high availability, and is able to leverage our existing virtual software to increase the protection of Agency's information and information systems. The features and resource capacity of the Dell products will be able to sustain optimal work performance of the increasing demand from the DeCA IT department. Using Dell products will fulfill the business needs of hardware resources, fulfill current functionality gaps, as well as support interoperability with other software, application, or hardware vendors for future initiatives. The hardware refresh is pertinent to the infrastructure's continuity, stability, durability, and scalability. The above mentioned capabilities are all-inclusive in Dell's server product line. DeCA requires Dell product to fulfill its need.
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