This order authorizes the purchase of wide area network (WAN) optimization or acceleration technology solutions; development of networks acceleration solutions; configuration management; testing,…

This contract award, valued at $873,867.71, was issued by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to Acuity Inc., an 8(a) certified minority-owned small business. The contract authorizes the purchase of wide area network (WAN) optimization or acceleration technology solutions, including development, configuration management, testing, technical writing, and training support services and equipment for the SBA's headquarters location and the Atlanta district office, as well as 33 other SBA locations experiencing bandwidth utilization above 80%. The goal is to improve effective bandwidth and application performance across the SBA enterprise through data acceleration, efficient service delivery, information access streamlining, and throughput enhancement. This 12-month contract is funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Acuity, a federal IT consulting firm, has prior experience as a prime and subcontractor on various federal contracts for cloud, cybersecurity, data analytics, and other IT modernization services.

This order authorizes the purchase of wide area network (WAN) optimization or acceleration technology solutions; development of networks acceleration solutions; configuration management; testing, and trouble shooting; technical writing; and training technical support services and equipment for two (2) SBA location, and if deemed successful, a deployment to other selected SBA locations. These selected thirty five (35) locations currently experience and average bandwidth utilization above 80%. The technical evaluation locations are the SBA headquarters location and the atlanta district office. The other locations are the eight (8) office of capital access sites and the twenty five (25) office of field operations sites currently exceeding this eighty percent (80%) circuit utilization. This project is limited in duration to 12 months to address the need to improve, streamline, and automate data or application access. The goal of the project is to improve the effective bandwidth for multiple SBA locations, including 1100 SBA headquarters staff members. This will be accomplished by (1) accelerating data transmissions, (2) facilitating efficient delivery of services and applications, (3) streamlining access to information, and (4) improving the throughput of applications and the associated data across the enterprise, such as file transfers, microsoft exchange e-mail and sharepoint operations, and file backup, while reducing existing circuit bandwidth utilization. The contractor shall perform a pilot test of the riverbed steelhead appliance models 6050 and 2050H, to include a technical evaluation of the riverbed solution; the implementation of the solution to the remainder of the target sites, to also include 550-m and 2050-m, will be planned during the pilot phase. Arra::yes::arra