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Identification of the statutory authority permitting other than full and open competition 41 USC 1901(e)(2) and FAR Part 13.106-1(b): Brand Name Only The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' (NIAID) Operations and Engineering Branch (OEB) of the Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology (OCICB) manages and develops the technology infrastructure that supports Intramural research, Extramural investments and Administrative management. OEB services 4000+ end users in more than 20 locations throughout the United States. Infrastructure services provided by OEB are maintained and used 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Services include data storage and protection, applications hosting, server management, workstation configuration and management, networking and security.

This purchase request is for additional licenses for our Bridgeworks appliances. The new licenses are required to enable backup and restoration of data across the WAN between RML and RDCF. The licenses are important as they enable the fast transfer of data. Bridgework appliances are being used by the Enterprise Storage Team for near real-time transfers, enabling other technologies such as Commvault, aux copies between sites, NetApp Snapshots for data protection, and S3 object replication. All of the mentioned hardware and software are highly critical systems and have been architected and implemented to support the mission/research of the NIAID.