Attch 3 JEFO__Redacted.pdf

Justification for an Exception to Fair Opportunity or to Use Brand-Name Restriction

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Is this a brand-name justification? Yes No Please provide the product title and description. [ FAR16.505(a)(4)(i) ]

Brand-Name Product Title: Oracle Hardware Upgrade and NetApp Storage

Brand-Name Product Description: Oracle Servers and NetApp Storage

Is this a Bridge Action as defined in the AF Bridge Action Reduction Plan? Yes No

Contracting Activity: AMIC DET 2 OL/PKA (Patrick AFB FL)

Purchase Request / Local ID Number:

Program Name (and Program Element, if applicable): United States National Data Center (US NDC) Oracle Equipment Refresh and NetApp Storage

Estimated Cost/Price of the Order (including options):

Type Program (see AFFARS 5302.101 for definitions): PEO Program Other Contracting

Type of D etermination: Individual Class Expires: [ click and select ]

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(1) Contracting Activity:

AMIC DET 2 OL/PKA

1020 S. Patrick Drive Patrick AFB, FL 32925

(2) Nature and/or description of the action being approved:

Brand name justification to purchase Oracle servers, storage, backup tape drives and related storage media as well as customer data and device retention and support of manufactured items provided by Oracle and NetApp as a firm fixed price commodity components previously acquired via the NASA SEWP. This coverage will be from approximately 1 Apr 20 through 31 Mar 21.

(3) Description of the supplies/services required to meet the agency's needs:

To furnish and install servers, storage, software, customer data and devices/storage/premier support of manufactured items previously acquired through a competitive design/build process for US NDC upgrade. Air Force Technical Application Center (AFTAC) requires Oracle systems and NetApp storage equipment to allow seamless integration in an existing design/build structure, equipment and support services for it's mission critical servers, storage, and data devices supporting the United States Atomic Energy Detection System. As a result, AFTAC will be able to maintain consistency with regard to knowledge base, support, and component replacement with no loss of program dollars or schedule. These servers are part of the Capital Equipment Replacement Program (CERP) process for the pipeline servers on US NDC (opspipe, altpipe, suspipe, saltpipe, jdevpipe, dev3pipe) and vital to the classified virtual machine environment that will host the NDC modernization system. Larger servers with maximum cores are necessary to support the multi-threaded modernization software upgrades. NetApp disk storage is necessary to support expected Geophysical Monitoring System (GMS) growth. This equipment purchase is critical as it includes the servers to be utilized in hosting virtual servers and storage equipment.

Part # Descriptions Quantity

Section 1: Oracle X8-2 Server Hardware

1. Oracle X8-2 Server 7600466 Oracle X8-2 TAA compliant: model family 4

2. Oracle X8-2 7600469 Oracle X8-2: 1 RU base chassis with motherboard 4

3. Oracle Intel Xeon Gold 7600461 1 Intel Xeon Gold 5218 16-core 2.3 GHz (for factory 8 installation)

4. Oracle Short heat sink 7115197 Short heat sink (for factory installation) 8

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5. Oracle DDR4-2666 DIMM 7115200 One 32 GB DDR4-2666 registered DIMM (for factory 96 installation)

6. Oracle Processor clip 7116456 Processor clip (for factory installation) 8

7. Oracle HDD 7111107 One 1.2 TB 10000 rpm 2.5-inch SAS-3 HDD with 8 marlin bracket (for factory installation)

8. Oracle HDD Filler Panel 6331A-N 2.5-inch HDD filler panel (for factory installation) 24

9. Oracle Storage 7117125 Oracle storage 12 GB SAS PCIe RAID HBA, internal: 4 16 port and 2 GB memory (for factory installation)

10. Oracle SAS cables 7117386 SAS cables for 1U (for factory installation) 4

11. Oracle Storage Dual Port 7115460 Oracle Storage dual port 16 GB or 32 GB Fibre 8 Channel PCIe HBA with 2 transceivers, Qlogic (for factory installation)

12. Oracle Ethernet Adapter 7118015 Oracle dual port 25 GB Ethernet adapter (for factory 4 installation)

13. Oracle Power Cord 333F-20-10-NEMA Power cord 8

Section 2: Oracle S7-2L Server Hardware

1. Oracle SPARC S7-2L Server 7112914 SPARC S7-2 Server: model family 3

2. Oracle SAS-3 Drive Cage 7112886 Eight 2.5-inch SAS-3 drive cage (for factory installation) 3

3. Oracle DDR4-2400 DIMM 7112909 One 32 GB DDR4-2400 (for factory installation) 48

4. Oracle SAS-3 HDD 7111107 One 1.2 TB 10000 rpm 2.5-inch SAS-3 HDD with marlin 6 bracket (for factory installation)

5. Oracle HDD Filler Panel 6331A-N 2.5-inch HDD filler panel (for factory installation) 18

6. Oracle Storage Fibre Channel 7115460 Oracle storage dual port 16 GB or 32 Fibre Channel PCIe 6 HBA with 2 transceivers, Qlogic (for factory installation)

7. Oracle Power Cord 333F-20-10-NEMA Power Cord 6

8. Oracle Solaris Boot Image 7114240 Oracle Solaris with fallback-boot image and Oracle VM 3 server for SPARC preinstall (for factory installation)

9. Oracle PCIe Filler Panel 7102748 PCIe filler panel (for factory installation) 12

10. Oracle Storage RAID 7113249 Oracle Storage 12 GB SAS PCIe RAID HBA, internal 3 (for factory installation)

11. Oracle SPARC Processors 7117712 SPARC S7-2L Server: base with 2 SPARC S7 8-core 4.27 3 GHZ processors, TAA compliant (for factory installation) Section 3: Oracle Backup Tape

1. Oracle StorageTek LT08 7118461 StorageTek LT08 media: model family 32

2. Oracle StorageTek LT08 7118469 StorageTek LT08 media: labeled, pack of 20 32

3. Oracle StorageTek LT08 7118470 StorageTek LT08 media: library pack packaging 32

4. Oracle StorageTek LT08 7118474 StorageTek LT08 media: horizontal labels 32

5. Oracle Premier Support B58121 Oracle Premier Support for Systems 1

6. Oracle Customer Retention B58122 Oracle Customer Data and Device Retention 1

7. Oracle Hardware Fee B59411 Hardware Freight Fee 1

Section 4: NetApp Storage

1. NetApp Storage Controller E-X5720A-0E-C NetApp Storage Controller IOM12, SAS, 12GB, E-Series 4

2. NetApp SAS Internal Cable X-26004-00-C Cable, mini SAS HD-miniSAS HD, SAS3, 1m, -C 8

3. NetApp Power Cord X-52197-00-0E-C Power Cords, In-Cab, 2m, C14-C13, 0E, -C 2

4. NetApp Disk Shelf E-X5723A-AD-C Disk Shelf Encl, 2U-12, DE212C, Empty, 2PSU, 913W 2

5. NetApp Disk Drive E-X4127A-AD-C Disk drive, 8TB, 7.2k, 12GB, Non-FDE, DE212C 24

6. NetApp Storage License OS-SANTRCTY1-CAP1-AD-C OS Software License 1920

7. NetApp Non-Return Disk CS-NRD2-E Non Returnable Disk Plus 2

8. NetApp HW Support CS-SEC-NBDD Hardware Support, Next Bus Day Parts Delivery 2

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9. NetApp HW Support X-02657-00 Rackmount Kit, 212C, 4-post, Adj 2

(4) Justification for restricting consideration to a brand-name item:

FAR 16.505(b)(1)(i) requires the Contracting Officer to provide each awardee under a multiple award contract a fair opportunity to be considered for each order exceeding $3,500 unless a statutory exception applies. The specific exception that precludes the fair opportunity process for this acquisition is FAR 16.505(a)(4)(i)&(ii), Brand-name.

The US National Data Center (US NDC) system is a highly specialized mission system with a 99% availability requirement and roughly 100 servers at this time. For the last 20 years, the engineering of this highly-complex, global, mission system has included replacing all similar types of servers at the same time. Buying 8-10 of the same make and model at the same time has been the standard to retain the homogeneous hardware environment as well as continue the performance levels and support software requirements. The evolution of the US NDC from Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating systems occurred soon after Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems, thereby making Oracle the primary provider for both Sparc and X86 servers for the US NDC.

Oracle servers have shown to have the least amount of maintenance problems. Historical maintenance records for other server brands have shown significantly more problems with component reliability and has resulted in replacing as many of those servers as possible. Oracle hardware has proven to be the most reliable by far, which ultimately saves money. Based on the number of Oracle vs other vendor's machines and the length of time they have been in service, the senior US NDC system administrator has estimated other vendor's hardware failure rate is more than double that of Oracle. Oracle has proven outstanding on-site service with cleared local Field Engineers. Their (Oracle / Sun) hardware customer service has been efficient and consistent for the past 17 years. Customer service and on-site engineers provided by other vendors have proven to be very poor, by providing third party uncleared personnel to perform maintenance, upgrades and repairs when they are needed.

When the field engineers are not cleared for the facility, the servers have to be shut down, un-racked and moved to an unclassified area for the technician to service the parts. The technician is unable to perform tests locally until the administrator can re-rack and install the servers, causing additional delays and down time for the applicable server.

Oracle servers use the same peripheral parts in every box, network cards, fibre channel cards, etc. All the parts are tested and published on Oracle HCL (hardware compatibility list). This makes for easy parts replacement, firmware compatibility and upgrades. Alternatively, other vendors use commodity parts and contain various brands of PCIe I/O (network, fibre channel, etc) cards.

The US NDC is undergoing an evolution to virtualized servers and the mission detection software is being modernized by a separate government agency. Virtualization will result in fewer bare metal servers (cost savings) and a need for more software to manage the virtualized servers (better use of limited resources). This will take several years and it is important to change as few factors as possible during this major shift in the US NDC platforms to maintain reliability and performance. The system administration resources are limited and changes to hardware also require updated training. In order to keep pace with the existing workload, a stable hardware environment is critical.

(5) Contracting Officer's determination that the anticipated cost to the Government will be fair and reasonable:

In accordance with FAR 16.202-2, this will be a firm fixed-price contract suitable for acquiring commercial items and allows fair and reasonable prices when there is adequate price competition and/or reasonable comparisons. There is reason to believe that sufficient competition will be provided using NASA SEWP, as this is only a brand name requirement and many of the contract holders on NASA SEWP are also contract holders on the NETCENTS-2 Products contract and competition was always available.

(6) Other facts supporting the justification:

A high percentage of the computing infrastructure supporting the US National Data Center (US NDC) is comprised of Oracle systems. The US NDC is a highly specialized mission capability with a 99% availability requirement and roughly 100 servers in the current configuration. Oracle servers provide the unique SPARC-based infrastructure necessary to support unique US NDC

November 2018 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Page 4 of 4 code as well as highly reliable “x86” infrastructure utilizing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system. Oracle systems have a proven track record at AFTAC. The senior US NDC system administrator estimates other vendor's hardware failure rates for similar functionality is more than double that of Oracle components. Maintaining Oracle systems for mission critical capabilities is the most cost efficient option to meet AFTAC requirements for the applicable mission areas.

(7) Actions the agency may take to remove or overcome any barriers to decreasing the use of brand-name items before any subsequent acquisition of the supplies or services:

The Government continues survey the market to see if there's any other qualified products that meets the need of this requirement.

(8) Program Manager's certification that supporting data is accurate and complete:

As evidenced by my signature below, I certify that any supporting data contained herein, which is my responsibility, is both accurate and complete.

(9) Contracting Officer's certification that the justification is accurate and complete:

As evidenced by my signature below, I certify that the justification is accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

(10) Approving Official's determination that FAR16.505(a)(4)(i) applies to the order:

As evidenced by my signature below, I hereby determine that the use of brand-name restriction applies.

Date

02 Dec 2019

Date

16 Mar 2020

Contracting Officer

SHAWNA L. KETTELL

AMIC DET 2 OL/PKA (Patrick AFB FL), 321-494-8061