PUR7776-Insum-Talan FY2026.pdf

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DESCRIPTION OF INTENDED

SINGLE SOURCE PURCHASE

(PUR 7776)

AGENCY: Florida Board of Governors

TITLE: OKTA Custom Integration & Oracle Application Express Support Services Short description of the commodity or service desired: Custom Integration Support

CONTACT

Name: Richard Soule Address: 46 Beekman St., Plattsburgh, NY 12901 Telephone: (866)887-1670 Email: richard.soule@talan.com

Internal tracking number, if any: SS-BOG-26-001

Date posted: 6/5/2025 @ 11:45 AM Last day for receipt of information: 6/26/2025 @ 11:45 AM

This description of commodities or contractual services intended for purchase from a single source is posted in accordance with Sections 120.57(3) and 287.057(3), Florida Statutes (F.S.), and will remain posted for a period of at least 15 business days.

Commodity or Contractual Service Required (commodity or United National Standard Products and Services Code (UNSPSC), manufacturer, model, and description, as appropriate):

80111608; Temporary information technology software developers

Quantity or Term (as appropriate):

Three years

Requestor (division, bureau, office, individual, as appropriate):

Eugene Kovacs

Performance and/or Design Requirements (e.g. intended use, function or application, compatibility, requirements; reference to policy, rule, statute or other act of the Legislature, etc., as appropriate):

The scope of work is for provision of advanced Oracle Application Express architecture and implementation support services on an as-needed basis to assist Board Office staff in optimizing the Oracle Application Express environment, evaluating performance and tuning Board Office applications developed and deployed within the Application Express environment, assisting with the assimilation and implementation of new features that become available in the Oracle Application Express product, assisting with the assimilation and implementation of external services supported by the Oracle Application Express product, assisting with the assimilation and implementation of integration into our Single Sign On service with Talan AuthZ for existing client applications, and assisting with assimilation and implementation of REST API connections

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between disparate external services . Contractor will provide these services to the Florida Board of Governors (Board). Additionally, for a period of six months, provide a full-time Apex application developer resource to augment staff shortage in the Application Development team.

Schedule:

A full-time Apex Application developer (Junior Apex Resource or higher) beginning upon order approval for a term of up-to three years Part-time Apex resources, at the appropriate level, for the particular API integration or Apex Plug-In installation and implementation, beginning upon order approval for a term of up-to three years Estimated Cost $500,000 for year one, future years depend upon new applications and Apex features becoming available through product enhancements.

Intended Single Source:

Insum Solutions Corp., A Talan Company

Estimated Dollar Amount:

$1,500,000.00

Justification for single source acquisition (what is necessary and unique about the product, service or source; steps taken to confirm unavailability of competition, as appropriate):

Talan is the only organization that can provide assistance with the usage of Talan Authz product into Application Express, as they are the developers of this product. Talan has unique access and experience with Apex Office Print and Apex Office Edit integrations. The REST API integrations between Application Express and external services like our SolarWinds Service Desk and Adobe Sign require modifications to existing applications to implement the Talan AuthZ product. The ability to meet deliverable deadlines for our application development team, currently shorthanded by 2 developers, is expected to be met by the engagement of a contractor with direct in-depth knowledge of the AuthZ product and Application Express environment.

Talan also created custom Okta integration components for their proprietary AuthZ software.

Talan’s services are required to maintain the Okta custom integration.

Complete the following checklist A specific contract is the only source of the required item because:

The required items are proprietary to the Contractor

A specific item is needed:

To be compatible or interchangeable with existing hardware, As spare or replacement hardware, For the repair or modification of existing hardware, or

For technical evaluation or test.

It is not possible to obtain competitive bids for consideration. I have attached the pertinent documentation showing what market research was conducted to

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preclude other brands or vendors from consideration. In a brief explanation, Provide supporting evidence for the conclusion; other sources should be listed, along with an explanation of why they are unable to meet the requirements.

There is a substantial technical risk in contracting with any other contractor. In a brief explanation, provide supporting evidence of why other contractors are considered to be unable to overcome the substantial technical risk.

Generic Oracle database SQL programmers who do not work regularly in the Application Express development environment, and who do not have intimate knowledge of the Talan AuthZ product, and who do not have extensive training and/or experience with it will risk the breaking of existing applications and failure to meet delivery deadlines for current projects.

Approved By (names & titles, as appropriate, e.g., requestor, requestor management, information systems, budget, purchasing):

Jillian Green, Purchasing Director

Prospective vendors are requested to provide information regarding their ability to supply the commodities or contractual services described. If it is determined in writing by the agency, after reviewing any information received from prospective vendors, that the commodities or contractual services are available only from a single source, the agency shall provide notice of its intended decision to enter a single-source purchase contract in the manner specified in Rule 60A- 1.045, Florida Administrative Code, and section 120.57(3), F.S.