Brand_Name_-_CPLEX.docx

Brand Name Justification CPLEX licenses are already in place and are being used by the statisticians. We need to continue to support the licenses and to protect the sizeable investment that has already been made in the product. The lifecycle costs in this product easily exceeds $1 million (buying the licenses and purchasing the annual software maintenance and support) over the years. Having the software maintenance and support helps to optimize on the product purchase and to receive the technical support if necessary.

We have development license(s) on one system and a run-time license(s) on another. I believe the run-time licenses supported 350 users or some similar number.

1. Application Description - the principal use for Cplex is as a back end solver from Ampl. The Ampl development suite is the primary tool. In this case cell disclosure cases are tested and flagged for further work by analysts. The resulting algorithms will be incorporated into a larger set of tools used by data collection and analysis personnel.

2. Scope of use - we have one development server and one production server. Each has the appropriate license.