Oracle_JA_Redacted.pdf

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JUSTIFICATION & APPROVALS FOR FAR SUBPART 16.5

ACQUISITIONS BRAND-NAME

Multiple Award Schedule (MAS)/Multiple Award Contract (MAC)

Orders under MAC/Fair Opportunity, FAR 16.505, DFARS 216.505-70, PGI 216.505-70

Purchase Request Number: HQ0516914197

Contract Number: TBD

Task/Delivery Order Number: TBD

Procurement Title: Oracle software License and support

Contracting Office: DMA Contracting Office

Estimated Value:

Authority: FAR 16.505(a)(4)

BRAND-NAME JUSTIFICATION

Upon the basis of the following justification, I, as the Contracting Officer, hereby approve this brand-name justification for the proposed contractual action pursuant to FAR 16.505(a)(4), as the particular brand-name, product, or feature is essential to the Government’s requirements, and market research indicates other companies’ similar products, or products lacking the particular feature, do not meet, or cannot be modified to meet, the agency’s needs.

1. REQUIRING AGENCY AND CONTRACTING OFFICE:

DMA Riverside, DMA Acquisition and Procurement, Ft. Meade

2. NATURE/DESCRIPTION OF ACTION(S): The requirement is to continue the Licensing and software support from Oracle for the next year. Follow-on years are not available due to on-going price restructuring at Oracle.

3. DESCRIPTION OF SUPPLIES/SERVICES: Oracle software Licensing and support for one year.

4. SUPPORTING RATIONALE FOR BRAND-NAME JUSTIFICATION:

a. This is proprietary software that can only be licensed/updated/supported by Oracle or an

Oracle partner/distributor. All AFN movies, television series, and interstitials stored in the Sony archive are encoded by Oracle’s access management software and so these events can only be retrieved by Oracle’s access management software. This archive presently stores 570 Terabytes of events and is the primary source of video for the AFN Movie channel, AFN Family Channel, AFN Spectrum Channel and also provides much of the information for the AFN Entertainment

Channel during rerun season. Failure to continue our License and Support agreement with

Oracle has the potential to cause the loss of half of our television content. Oracle is partnered with Sony to provide the access software for the Sony, PetaSite archive. It is possible to change to another system of access software, but it will require replacement of servers and software and we will have to pay for the new equipment and software plus the Oracle equipment and software for nearly a year while we transcode 570 Terabytes of content from the old system to the new

Page 2 of 3 Pages one. This will only increase our costs on an archive system that is nearing end-of-life and is planned for replacement in 2019 anyway.

5. COST/PRICE FAIR AND REASONABLE DETERMINATION: The Contracting Officer will determine a fair and reasonable cost that represent the best value to the government.

6. MARKET RESEARCH: Market research was conducted between 12 August 2018 and 20

September 2018. Market research was conducted through on-line research, and contact with

Oracle sales representative and through NASA SEWP.

7. ANY OTHER SUPPORTING FACTS: None

8. ACTIONS THE AGENCY MAY TAKE TO OVERCOME BARRIERS THAT LED TO

THE UTILIZATION OF A BRAND-NAME PRODUCT:

(a) The DMA Riverside, Department of Technical Operations is working to upgrade the archive system in a manner that will eliminate the need for this proprietary software. This is estimated to occur during the first year of this contract.

9. REFERENCE TO THE APPROVED ACQUISITION PLAN (AP): N/A

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TECHNICAL CERTIFICATION: I certify that the supporting data under my cognizance which are included in the J&A are accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

NAME: Glenn L. Wells SIGNATURE: _____________________________________ (Print/Type)

TITLE/ORGANIZATION: Electronics Technician PHONE: 951-413-2328

DATE: 3 August 2017

REQUIREMENTS CERTIFICATION: I certify that the supporting data under my cognizance which are included in the J&A are accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

NAME: Glenn L. Wells SIGNATURE: _____________________________________

TITLE/ORGANIZATION: Electronics Technician PHONE: 951-413-2328

DATE: 3 August 2017

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

NAME: SIGNATURE: _____________________________________

TITLE/ORGANIZATION: DMA Contracting Officer PHONE:

DATE:

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