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Limited Source Justification

1. Contracting activity:

This Limited Source Justification supports a procurement action to be conducted under the authority of the Multiple Award Schedule Program (FAR 8.405‐6). The procurement action is generated by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Facilities, Security & Contracting, Contracting (FSC/C).

2. Nature and/or description of the action being approved:

This document provides justification for acquiring AnthillPro on a brand name basis.

Competition will be sought from authorized providers of AnthillPro software and maintenance services.

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Chief Information Officer /Operation Technology Management/Application Support (CIO/OTM/AppSys) provides support to the OPM by managing and operating OPM's Federal Investigative Services software/application systems.

These application systems are currently undergoing technology transformation including new code development in Java for Oracle WebCenter portal integration (Oracle WebLogic application server, IBM WebSphere application server, and RedHat JBOSS application server. This program is referred to as EPIC (eQIP, Personnel Investigations Processing System, Imaging and Central Investigation Systems) Transformation.

This procurement will result in obtaining commercial off the shelf software and software maintenance support needed to support the deployment of new code and other configuration items to post‐development environments, including Acceptance Test, Training, Production and Disaster Recovery/Continuity of Operations in the distributed environment.

3. Supplies or services required to meet the agency’s needs:

This procurement is for AnthillPro current commercial version at the time of procurement needed to support EPIC deployments in distributed environment. This procurement also includes vendor maintenance support as well as limited consulting support to address one time setup and configuration in OPM environment.

4. Authority permitting acquisition using limited sources:

This brand name acquisition is made pursuant to the authority of FAR 8.405‐6. Application for brand name descriptions is provided for in FAR 8.405‐6(b)(1): Only one source is capable of responding due to the unique or specialized nature of the work without the need of additional customization by OPM.

4.1. Demonstration that the contractor’s unique qualifications or the nature of the acquisition requires the use of the authority cited:

The product/services being procured are specific to the AnthillPro software. Any vendor (NAICS code 511210) that offers this software and manufacturer approved maintenance is qualified to respond. Our market research indicates only one vendor:

Vendor Name

Contract Vehicle Number

Software Sold

Email Contact Phone #

UrbanCode NA AnthillPro sales@urbancode.com 216-858-

Vendors may be under $27M small business threshold, but will need confirmation directly from vendor.

5. Determination by the contracting officer that the anticipated order will represent the best value:

Competition on this acquisition will be limited to small business vendors for the specific brand name or manufacture identified. Based on the market research conducted, it is anticipated competition is limited. The contracting activity will post the requirement on GSA e‐Buy, seeking competitive quotations from sources holding GSA contracts. By placing an order against a schedule contract using the procedures in 8.405, the contracting officer has concluded that the anticipated order will represents the best value.

6. Description of the market research conducted and the results or statement of the reason market research was not conducted:

Market research was conducted by OPM using GSA Advantage web‐site, general web based query (Google and Wikipedia), and other sources comparing similar types of tools. This research identified eleven (11) products. Of those eleven, seven were investigated further on the basis of criteria (see attached matrix).

Requirement AnthillPro

Deploy to a remote server yes

Manage Build Packages yes

Operating System Support (Linux) yes

Create a deployment workflow. yes

Reporting yes

Job Management yes

Tool Integration yes

IDE Support yes

Direct Vendor Support yes

Product Roadmap yes

Dependency Management yes

User Authentication yes

Requirement AnthillPro

SCM build triggers yes

Email Publishing yes

Multi‐project support yes

Ant support yes

Maven support yes

JUnit support rendering yes

JMX support yes

Open Source no

Required modification of build scripts no

After further analysis AnthillPro was found to be the only tool that meets the more granular detailed technical criteria.

Performs individual manage individual jobs as well as create a deployment workflow

AnthillPro provides orchestration and will deploy EPIC application to test and invoke tests, notify testers of the results and trend the data to track of quality trends and add, update, and repair tests when necessary.

Fully supports ability to create reports surrounding the build process (i.e. this version got deploy to here on this date).

AnthillPro provides static analysis tools can evaluate a variety of code weaknesses and failures such as; reliability, non‐conforming code, standards and maintainability, and security. Static analysis reports essential first test of code quality for EPIC.

Tool integration ‐‐ ability to integrate with the OPM tools

AnthillPro comes with integrations for over 80 third party tools, and UrbanCode's open plugin system. Additionally the open plugin system will allow OPM to write our own plugins to integrate the tools we need, and to turn custom scripts into process steps that run in AnthillPro. Integration with Serena Dimensions, Silk Central Test Manager, and others are essential to EPIC.

Provide robust reach back to the vendor to get support

Licensed customers receive phone support during our business hours – weekdays from 9am to 6pm Eastern Time. Urban Code also provides 24x7x365 access via a support portal

– Support, online help repository.

Product Roadmap anticipated lifecycle for the product

The first commercial version of AnthillPro was originally released in 2002 and Urban{code} code has been supporting ever since.

Ability to interface with dependency management tools.

AntHillPro integration with Ant allows projects to include Ivy. Ivy dependency management is the selected dependency management tool for the EPIC transformation project.

Ability to protect the build tool with OPM's user authentication mechanisms

AnthillPro provides role‐based assignments can be mapped to LDAP roles. Fine grained customizable permission system. AnthillPro provides fine‐grained, role‐based control over user's ability to deploy into each environment. Stored security credentials are never displayed.

Source Code Management build triggers ability for the build tool to support various trigger to monitor the build process

AnthillPro's event‐based and repository triggers for Continuous Integration with one‐time and recurring schedules. For example, build when a dependency or source changes, on commit.

Ability for the tool to broadcast activity results via email

AnthillPro has configurable notification schemes and allows creation of new notification schemes to suit OPM automation workflows, test events, deployments and so on.

Ability for the tool to support Ant scripts to build java projects

AnthillPro has full ant script integration, as such, it has full JUnit support to run and report on unit results.

7. Other facts supporting the justification.

Upon investigation of open source tools (i.e. Hudson, and Jenkins), it was determined that extensive customization is needed to fully meet the EPIC transformation build and deployment needs. Although AntHillPro requires configuration (i.e. establish workflows, define fine grain group authorization etc.), it require little to no customization to make the base product work.

8. Statement of actions, if any, the agency may take to remove or overcome any barriers that led to the restricted consideration before any subsequent acquisition for the supplies or services is made:

This procurement is a total set aside for small business concerns (<$27M). Competition will be limited to vendors included on the GSA contract vehicle IT Schedule, a Government‐wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) or other suitable government‐wide acquisition contract.