IA02 CUI_Knox EFOJ 2021_34_W9124D-21-Q-0075_Redacted.pdf

CUI

Control No.: MICC 2021-34

Services: Oracle Maintenance and Support Renewal

Version – September 2018 CUI eRecords, eOrders, eSecurity, etc. In addition, the MIRS systems exchanges data with a variety of agencies such as Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Social Security Administration, State Department of Motor Vehicles, Center for Disease Detection (CDD), and many others.

Oracle maintenance and support is required to provide new software upgrades and patches, which are propriety to the publisher, Oracle. Without this support, USMEPCOM will not be able to stay in regulatory compliance pursuant to Army Regulation 25-2 Department of the Army (DA) Cybersecurity Program, which states patches and updates must be applied to the enterprise and platform in a timely and efficient manner upon release to reduce security vulnerabilities per DOD and Army cybersecurity directives.

b. Alternatives: Procure an alternate vendor’s software license for the MIRS enterprise platform. This is not a viable option. The entire MIRS enterprise platform is based on Oracle and/or Oracle compatible products. There is not a vendor that can provide compatible software maintenance and support for the Oracle licensed products.

Furthermore, an alternate vendor’s software product would require replacement of the Oracle enterprise platform. Oracle products are utilized to maintain high operability and availability of critical USMEPCOM core business applications and data integration within USMEPCOM’s Oracle architecture. Continued maintenance and support of these products is necessary to maintain consistency across the enterprise, ensure compatibility with the current structure, provide seamless integration, minimize any interoperability issues and to enable USMEPCOM to leverage in-house expertise that will minimize any adverse impact costs associated with overall manpower, training and time required to implement a new platform using another vendor’s products.

The Oracle products for which maintenance and support are required represent a substantial investment of over by USMEPCOM. These products have successfully met USMEPCOM’s requirements for over twenty years and are not due for lifecycle replacement at this time; therefore, USMEPCOM is seeking to maintain, rather than replace these products as the costs for both product replacement and the associated collateral costs for implementation and testing, training and time required to implement could not be recouped in a re-procurement at this time.

The Oracle platform is USMEPCOM’s implemented architectural design and uses

Oracle based products that only Oracle can support. Implementing another vendor’s product would require the architectural design to be integrated/re-engineered, transformation logic would require rewriting for legacy system interfaces, documenting and revising technical documentation would add additional costs and technical reviews.

This would result in a substantial loss of time of at least two years, which would result in substantial additional costs in consulting, redesign efforts, rewriting of applications, and scripts that manage cloning, backup, monitoring, and performance. Any other product will adversely affect 67 Military Entrance Processing Stations (MEPS) from the processing of applicants for the all-volunteer armed forces, and the ability to exchange

CUI

Control No.: MICC 2021-34

Services: Oracle Maintenance and Support Renewal

Version – September 2018 CUI

8. Other Facts:

a. Procurement History:

Contract: NNG15SC10B / W9124D-20-F-0199 Contractor: Emergent LLC Award Date: 2 March 2020 Competitive Status: Brand Name Authority Cited: FAR 16.505(a)(4)