A24 JA Red Hat FY25_Redacted.pdf

This document is a Limited/Sole Source Justification for the FY25 renewal of Red Hat licenses and maintenance/support. The Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) requires the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop licenses for network response time troubleshooting and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Platform licenses to support the DFAS Computer Network Defense team central security event and correlation database. The maintenance provides 24/7 technical support and access to product patches and upgrades as mandated by DoD security policies. The contract was previously awarded to an unknown vendor on 2024-09-27, but the contract amount is unknown.