A16_JOFOC_Brand_Name_0001.pdf

United States Department of the Interior Office of the Assistant Secretary - Indian Affairs

Washington, DC 20240

BRAND NAME JUSTIFICATION

SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURES FOR CERTAIN COMMERCIAL ITEMS

AUTHORITY: FAR 13.501(a), 41 U.S.C. 1901

PR/SOL/CONTRACT # TBD

Control # 22-0101.

1. Identification of the agency and the contracting activity, and specific identification of the document as a “Brand Name Justification.”

Contracting Activity: This document is a brand name justification for other than full and open competition for the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Central Office, Office of Information Management Technology (OIMT).

2. Nature and/or description of the action being approved.

This requirement is for a continuation of Microsoft service as described in # 3.

Requirement:

New

Pricing:

Firm-Fixed Price

3. A description of the supplies or services required to meet the agency’s needs (including the estimated value).

Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) has a requirement for a project with two major workstreams. The goal is to improve customer end user experience (CX) and security on their Windows 10 endpoint systems, and provide BIE employees a better experience in accessing key DOI systems by shifting their accounts into the DOI AAD and AD.

These projects will focus on these areas:

1) Improve patching and compliance reporting

2) Migrate from the current MacAfee Volume Encryption to BitLocker

3) Build-out and test of up to three (3) new Windows image baselines for the BIA enterprise, including a Privileged Access Workstation (PAW) image for workstations used for cloud administration tasks

4) Explore through two 4-week pilots across a minimum of 4 BIA sites, the possibilities for use of

Autopilot and Intune in BIA. One – 4-week pilot for Intune and one – 4-week pilot for

Autopilot.

5) Implement OneDrive across a minimum of 4 BIA sites in one 4-week pilot, to explore and identify when and where use of OneDrive in the BIA production network could improve user data backups and the deployment experiences of BIA end users.

6) Assist BIE in migrating 2500 BIE employees from their current BIE Active Directory

(AD) accounts and profiles into DOI BIA’s AD, so those employees can securely and more simply reach key systems necessary for reporting and get support for their required administrative tasks. This will include a subscription to the Active Directory Migration

Service (ADMS) and Active Directory Synchronization Service (ADSS), to make the transition from BIE AD to BIA AD less disruptive and to assist with ongoing cross-tenant communications in M365.

To support these efforts as part of their End User Experience Improvement project, BIA has need for Microsoft Unified Support, Microsoft Transformation Team (MTT), and Active Directory

Synchronization Service (ADSS).

4. An Identification of the statutory authority permitting other than full and open competition.

FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(ii)

5. A demonstration that the proposed contractor’s unique qualifications or the nature of the acquisition requires use of the authority cited.

IA currently uses Microsoft Premier Support for customer and end user security on their

Windows 10 endpoint systems. To introduce a different support would possibly cause a loss of data. IA would have to develop a new support service portfolio which includes training, configuration, integration of existing and new support will require engineering with multiple vendors, this is costly.

This requirement’s goal is to improve customer end user experience (CX) and security on their Windows 10 endpoint systems, and provide BIE employees a better experience in accessing key DOI systems by shifting their accounts into the DOI AAD and AD. These projects will focus on these areas:

a) Improve patching and compliance reporting

b) Migrate from the current MacAfee Volume Encryption to BitLocker

c) Build-out and test of up to three (3) new Windows image baselines for the BIA enterprise, including a Privileged Access Workstation (PAW) image for workstations used for cloud administration tasks

d) Explore through two 4-week pilots across a minimum of 4 BIA sites, the possibilities for use of

i. Autopilot and Intune in BIA. One – 4-week pilot for Intune and one – 4-week pilot for Autopilot.

e) Implement OneDrive across a minimum of 4 BIA sites in one 4-week pilot, to explore and identify when and where use of OneDrive in the BIA production network could improve user data backups and the deployment experiences of BIA end users.

f) Assist BIE in migrating 2500 BIE employees from their current BIE Active Directory

(AD) accounts and profiles into DOI BIA’s AD, so those employees can securely and more simply reach key systems necessary for reporting and get support for their required administrative tasks. This will include a subscription to the Active Directory Migration

Service (ADMS) and Active Directory Synchronization Service (ADSS), to make the transition from BIE AD to BIA AD less disruptive and to assist with ongoing cross-tenant communications in M365.

6. A description of efforts made to ensure that offers are solicited from as many potential sources as is practicable, including whether a notice was or will be publicized as required by Subpart 5.2 and, if not, which exception under 5.202 applies.

The requirement will be posted for solicitation as an Indian Economic Enterprise (IEE) set-aside.

7. A determination by the contracting officer that the anticipated cost to the Government will be fair and reasonable.

I hereby determine that the anticipated cost to the Government for this contract action will be fair and reasonable. The contracting officer determines that the anticipated price(s) will be fair and reasonable based on adequate price competition expected to result from the solicitation.

8. A description of the market research conducted (see Part 10) and the results or a statement of the reason market research was not conducted.

Market Research indicates that several IEE resellers are available to submit a competitive quote for this brand name storage software.

9. Any other facts supporting the use of justification of other than full and open competition, such as:

N/A

10. A listing of the sources, if any, that expressed, in writing, an interest in the acquisition.

11. A statement of any actions, if any, the agency may take to remove or overcome any barriers to competition before any subsequent acquisition for the supplies or services required.

12. Requirements personnel certification.

I certify that the technical data which forms a basis for this justification is complete and accurate and meets the Government’s minimum needs.

X

Program Office/COR

13. Contracting officer certification that the justification is accurate and complete to the best of the contracting officer’s knowledge and belief.

I certify that this justification is accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Contracting Officer

14. Lead Contracting officer certification that the justification is accurate and complete to the best of the contracting officer’s knowledge and belief.

I certify that this justification is accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Lead Contracting Officer