Redacted_JA_DEEMZ50062.pdf

Justification Subject: CliQr CloudCenter Software Funding No: DEEMZ50062

The following paragraphs, in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13.106(b)(1)(i), are provided to support the limited source justification for proposed orders exceeding the micro-purchase threshold but not exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold.

Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), IT Services Division, Services Design Branch, SE/SE643 is requesting the procurement of CliQr CloudCenter Software. This action is to purchase CliQr CloudCenter software which provides the following core IT Operations functions fault, performance, asset, ticketing, service management, and multi-tenant customer portal in one product for DISA’s Services Design Branch.

DISA team identified and evaluated Cloud Orchestrator solution that offer’s a multi-tenant cloud service where each tenant can build application profiles, deploy applications on a variety of target clouds, optimize performance based on benchmarks, and monitor the entire deployment. The solution should can address the multi-tenancy capabilities that will allows CHS team to easily separate customers down to a network level while facilitating delegated.

Cloud Orchestrator solution provides application profiles that are templates or blueprints that can be used to describe how applications should be deployed, configured, and managed on cloud environments and allow CHSS team to quickly describe and onboard applications in a cloud-independent manner.

Federal CliQstarter Package includes:

- One CloudCenter Manager,

- Two CloudSmart Orchestrators (Public) AWS East and AWS GovCloud

- One CloudSmart Orchestrator (Private)

- 100 Managed Virtual Machines

- One Standard Support to include:

• Software Updates

• Zendesk ticket support by email

• 8x5 telephone support

• 12 months

- 15 days of Professional services Consulting

This will be a firm fixed price contract awarded using Research, Development, Test & Evaluation (RDT&E) Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) funding. The period of performance is September 26, 2015 to September 25, 2016. The North American Industrial Classification Code is 541519 with a size standard of $27.5 million.

The CliQr CloudCenter Software is proprietary and is only available through CliQr Technologies Inc., the original equipment manufacturer, or their authorized resellers. There are several known small businesses on the open market that can provide for this requirement. As such, this requirement will be posted as a brand name CliQr requirement as a small business set-aside via Fed Biz Opps (FBO) website.

Presently, market research determined the CliQr solution is proprietary and provides the most cost effective and most efficient solution to satisfy the government’s requirement.

Based on the justification provided by DISA, a determination has been made to solicit the above brand name requirement through FBO, set aside to authorized small businesses. Market research has confirmed there are no other products currently on the market that will meet the government’s needs, at this time.