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☒JUSTIFICATION FOR SOLE SOURCE (Simplified Acquisitions $2,500 TO $250K)

☐JUSTIFICATION FOR LIMITED SOURCE/BRAND NAME ($2,500 TO $250K)

The service or material listed on Procurement Requisition (PR) number 1300877303 and 1300880021 is sole/limited source and competition/fair opportunity is precluded for reasons indicated below. There are no substitutes available for this material/service.

Restricted to the following source. Provide original manufacturer's name. (If a sole source manufacturer distributes via dealers, ALSO provide dealer information.)

Manufacturer: IX Systems

Manufacturer POC & Phone #:

Mfr. Address: 2490 Kruse Dr., San Jose, CA 95131

Description of the item or service required, the estimated cost, and required d

Purchase of TrueNAS storage system to replace failing storage system in the with a required delivery date of 23 October 2020.

for the cost of

Specific characteristics of the material or service that limit the availability to a sole/limited source (unique features, function of the item, etc.). Describe in detail why only this suggested source can furnish the requirements to the exclusion of other sources.

supports the US Navy when it is required by the with the capability of transferring classified and data from or the that support training, data analysis and scheduling of classrooms, computer based training, and documentation that is distributed to the requires a replacement storage system to update, enhance and improve reliability of the data storage, reduced data access time, data integrity and increased amount of storage due to the additional needs of the Additionally, the current storage system is reaching its end of life and is experiencing hardware failures and data loss due to the system age (6 years) and the increasing number of spinning hard drives that are starting to fail due to the age and usage. The TrueNAS system has specific capabilities to support the system, the

TrueNAS X-Series arrays combine the flexibility of unified storage the performance of solid state flash drives, the capacity of hard disks, simplified management of a powerful web-based user interface. TrueNAS enterprise storage array supports unified block, file, and S3-compliant object storage protocols. Its modular hardware architecture conserves power, space and cooling while supporting multiple applications with its hybrid flash and disk storage pools. Optional High Availability ensures storage services are not disrupted, while

Intelligent Storage Optimization maximizes storage efficiency with typical data reduction ratios of greater than 2.5x. TruNAS X-Series provides data integrity, reliability, and ease-of-management. TruNAS leverages ZFS to merge multi-layer DRAM and flash cache with high-density spinning disks; system RAM and SSDs are used to cache reads and writes while HDDs store the data. The performance of

RAM and SSDs are orders of magnitude faster than HDDs, while their power requirements are much lower. TrueNAS In-Flight data corruption is automatically detected and repaired before it ever reaches disk, and bit rod and data decay are identified and scrubbed clean.

This ensures data is always pristine. TrueNAS Adaptive Compression (TAC) algorithm efficiently boosts storage performance with maximizing storage capacity. TAC intelligently adjusts its compression ration without wasting system resources. Before data is stored, TrueNAS dynamically detects and compresses what it can and skips over any data too inefficient to be worthwhile. TrueNAS provides unlimited file version retention, restoration, and replication, data is automatically protected locally against unintentional alteration, such as ransomware or malware, with minimal storage consumption. Data can be replicated locally, remotely, or to the cloud for backups or disaster recovery. TrueNAS snapshots can also be coordinated with VMware snapshots. This system can be purchased on the open market but IX Systems is the developer and manufacturer of the TrueNAS System and would be the preferred source to provide the

Government the correct system configuration at the best cost and within the required time frame.

If a different storage system were to be purchased, this would require the to evaluation, develop and integrate the system into the existing environment, adding approximately 160 hours (2 work weeks for 2 personnel) that would impact costs by approximately Schedule impacts would be approximately 60 days to integrate and configure the replacement into the system. This affects two systems that units on the west and east coasts which impacts a total of project, if the requested system is not purchased is approximately hard drives, the time spent to recover data lost from the HD failures, Each of those sites support The cost to the

This is due to the continued purchasing of replacement personnel having to save their data in other forms along with the cost of data that is lost from the age of the system and the constant maintenance required to keep the system functional.

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☒ The requested material or service represents the minimum requirements of the government.

provides multiple data-related services to . These services reside, for the most part, in virtualized environment that runs on VMware software and utilizes a Veeam backup solution.

This storage solution will replace a storage solution that is more than 6 years old and is experiencing frequent hard drive failures, risking sever loss of critical data to include years of invaluable submarine crew training records. This alone would have a significant cost in dollars as well as man-hours to restore./recreate.

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Specifically, the TrueNAS integrates seamlessly and is certified with both Veeam Backup and Replication and VMware. The ability to integrate with the systems that we already employ saves thousands of dollars vice developing methods to tie disparate systems by other manufacturers to ours.

This storage system supports VMware snapshots, and has a vCenter plug-in that ensures this new storage solution will integrate easily and quickly replace the failing storage that is currently in place. Additionally, TrueNAS provides flexibility of storage formats such as SMB, AFP, and NFS for file storage, ISCSI and Fiber Channel for block storage, allowing the the ability to facilitate any future requests from the faster and with less development time and costs.

TrueNAS allows for unlimited and point-in-time snapshots and the ability to roll back and access previous data versions, and is a proven way to mitigate virtual machine corruption, user error, and ransomware attacks.

□ The material/service must be compatible in all aspects (form, fit and function) with existing systems presently installed.

Describe the equipment you have now and how the new item/service must coordinate, connect, or interface with the existing system

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□ A patent, copyright, or proprietary data limits competition/fair opportunity. The proprietary data is:

□ These are “direct replacements” parts/components for existing equipment.

Identify and briefly describe the existing equipment below:

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