Notice of Intent to Sole Source.pdf

Identification Number: 75N97020R00018

Notice Type: Notice of Intent to Sole Source

Title: MAX NLM Direct Connect

Description

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine (NLM) intends to award a non-competitive sole source purchase order to the State of Maryland to procure two NLM 10 Gbps Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect va MAX Gigapop.

AWS Direct Connect Service offers high speed connectivity in the form of a service named Direct Connect. To take advantage of the speed that Direct Connect provides, NIH needs to have a link between NIH and the AWS Direct Connect port. Internet 2 offers a service that provides the link between NIH and AWS.

The MAX Gigapop network provides connectivity to Internet 2 for State Government educational activities, private educational and research entities, and for the National Institutes of Health.

Contractor Objectives and Tasks

Acquire multiple Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation services for the following locations:

Part Description Quantity NLM Additional 10G Layer 2 Ethernet Transport Service. From Coresite (Reston, Virginia) to NLM (College Park, Maryland).

NLM Additional Cross Connect at Coresite (Reston, Virginia) 1 NLM Additional 10G Layer 2 Ethernet Transport Service. From Equinix (Ashburn, Virginia) to Internet2.

NLM Additional Cross Connect at Equinix (Ashburn, Virginia). 1

Sole Source Justification

The proposed contract is for IT services for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 6.302-1 "Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements" as supplemented with additional information included in this notice.

This is not a solicitation, nor is a solicitation available. However, all interested organizations may submit their capability statements and qualifications which will be considered by NLM.

Responses must be in writing and must be submitted electronically to Derek Bowks, Contracting Officer at derek.bowks@nih.gov by 10:00 AM EST on Friday, August 21, 2020. Proposals must include pricing information. No late responses will be accepted.

Disclaimer and Important Notes: This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information provided in response. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization's qualifications to perform the work. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted.