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OIG-Notice of Intent to Sole Source AirWatch Bridge Connector and Customization

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Document Type: Notice of Intent to award a HUBZone Sole Source Solicitation Number: OIG- 75040120Q00001 Posted Date: January 14, 2020 Response Date: January 24, 2020 NAICS Code: 541519 Other Computer Related Services PSC Code: D302 IT and Telecom-Systems Development

The Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Inspector General (OIG) intends to solicit, negotiate and award a Firm Fixed Price contract to Blue Tech Inc, located at 4025 Hancock St, Ste 100, San Diego, CA 92110, a historically underutilized business zone (HUBZone) certified small business for Airwatch Bridge Connector Hosting and Customization. The contract will consist of a base year and one option year period.

HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) leverages the use of Entrust Issued derived credential certificates that can be used to authenticate users on mobile and other devices. HHS OIG currently employs manual provisioning and certificate binding to align users OIG accounts with the derived credentials that OIG users have requested. HHSOIG is seeking to facilitate automatic provisioning, binding, and revocation of derived credential certificates using Entrust Datacard, Cygnacom’s Airwatch Bridge Connector.

The contractor must provide installation, maintenance, support, and customization of the HHS OIG’s AirWatch Bridge Connector. The solution proposed will integrate the existing OIG’s Entrust Identity Guard application (IDS), OIG’s Administrative Tracking Application (ATA), OIG’s Active Directory (AD), and OIG’s AirWatch MDM instance. OIG requests functional modifications to the ABC in order to populate an Active Directory instance with information about issued credentials. The scope of this project will allow for the following modifications:

• When a user activates a derived credential, AirWatch will queue the event. ABC polls AirWatch for new events and retrieves the event for processing. The system will retrieve the distinguished name associated with the derived credential. A module hosted by Customer will poll for the distinguished name and populate the Alt-Security-Identities attribute in the Customer’s ATA application which will ultimately publish to the Customer’s Active Directory.

• In order to perform the above operation, the ABC will perform a mapping of the user’s distinguished name to the distinguished name of the issued credentials.

• When a user is removed in AirWatch, the Alt-Security-Identities attribute is cleared

OIG-Notice of Intent to Sole Source AirWatch Bridge Connector and Customization

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• The ABC must be supported on the Windows 2016 platform

The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted market research, and based on the results identified Blue Tech Inc, as the only HUBZone certified business partner for Entrust/Cygnacom’s Airwatch Bridge Connector. The authority for this sole source procurement is 15 U.S.C. 657a as implemented in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.302-5(b)(5), sole source awards under the HUBZone Act and FAR. 19.1306.

This notice of intent is NOT a request for competitive quotes. However, all interested parties (HUBZone certified small business partners only) who believe they can meet the requirement are invited to submit in writing complete information describing their ability to provide the product and services listed above (no phone calls will be accepted).

All responsible sources may submit a capability statement within ten (10) days after the publication of this synopsis which shall be considered by the agency. The capability statement must provide sufficient detail that demonstrates technical experience, skills and capabilities to fulfill the Government's requirement as outlined in this Notice of Intent.

Responses received after 10 days or without the required information may not be considered. For information concerning this acquisition contact:

Donita Hood, Contract Specialist Email: Donita.Hood@oig.hhs.gov

Tel: (202) 891–6067, or:

Tamara Armstrong, Contracting Officer Email: Tamara.Armstrong@oig.hhs.gov Tel: (202) 524-3291

A determination by the Government not to compete because of information received is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement.