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In accordance with the Federal Information Security Management Act and the National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-145, any application or software purchased and utilized by the Department must have FedRAMP compliant Authority to Operate (ATO). As of the date of this justification, Market Research has indicated no other competitor to PageFreezer’s SaaS tool has begun the process to obtain a FedRAMP compliant ATO.

PageFreezer is the developer and sole provider of the SaaS tool currently used by the Department for its web archiving requirement. They are the only authorized source to support patches and issue updates for the SaaS tool.

Additionally, since the award to PageFreezer in 2022, the Department has completed the necessary configuration that allows the name brand SaaS tool to run automatically.

Continuation of this particular SaaS tool will allow access to previously captured website data.

Switching to a different product would result in increased costs to the Department. A new vendor would need to be sponsored by the Department through the FedRAMP ATO process, additional configuration and installation costs of the new tool would be incurred, modification costs to the Department’s internal system accommodating the new tool would be incurred, maintenance and training costs would also be necessary. These additional costs would be detrimental to the Department’s mission in accomplishing its Information Technology goals. The Department determined administrative costs to compete this requirement when only one source could meet the technical requirements, as outlined above, was redundant and duplicative. Soliciting to PageFreezer as the sole source, has been determined in the best interest of the Department due to the potential failure of the Department in its essential mission.

5. BEST VALUE DETERMINATION

The pricing established by the GSA MAS has already been declared fair and reasonable.

Additionally, the Contracting Officer can utilize historical prices as a basis for analysis.

Based on this information, the Contracting Officer has determined that pricing received will be fair and reasonable.

6. A DESCRIPTION OF THE MARKET RESEARCH CONDUCTED AMONG

SCHEDULE HOLDERS AND THE RESULTS OR A STATEMENT OF THE

REASON MARKET RESEARCH WAS NOT CONDUCTED

As part of Market Research, the Department researched potential products using general search criteria on the web and conducted additional product searches on GSA MAS category 511210. This Market Research identified five potential web archiving solutions: Smarsh, Civic Plus, MirrorWeb, Google Vault, and PageFreezer. Once solutions were identified a search of the current FedRAMP approved ATO was conducted. PageFreezer was the only solution that had an in process FedRAMP ATO. It was determined through Market Research that a sole source procurement would be required.

7. ANY OTHER FACTS SUPPORTING THE JUSTIFICATION

No other facts were used to support this justification.