PUR7778 Form.pdf

STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

FDOT NOTICE OF INTENDED DECISION

TO ENTER INTO A SINGLE SOURCE CONTRACT

(PUR 7778)

375-040-54

PROCUREMENT

01/16

PUR 7778 (rev. 10/14) Page 1 of 2 60A-1.010, F.A.C.

This notice of intended decision to enter into a single source contract is posted in accordance with section

287.057(3)(c), Florida Statutes.

AGENCY: DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

TITLE: Data Storage Solution

Short description of the commodity or service desired: 5-year Subscription to store pavement data.

CONTACT

Name: Destyne Grayson

Address: 605 Suwannee St. MS20 Tallahassee , FL. 32399-0450

Telephone: (850) 414.4253

Email: CO.Purch@dot.state.fl.us

Internal tracking number, if any: DOT-SS-24-9112-DG

Date posted: Time Posted:

Commodity or Service Required (commodity class and group, manufacturer, model, and description, as appropriate):

43232702

71151106

Requestor (division, bureau, office, individual, as appropriate): Melanie Sowers, State Materials Office.

Performance and/or Design Requirements (intended use, function or application, compatibility etc.

requirements; reference to policy, rule, statute or other act of the Legislature, etc., as appropriate):

A subscription agreement is needed to store pavement data (Pavement Condition Surveys (PCS) and Ground

Penetrating Radar (GPR)).The GRP Data is used to support Design and forensics applications on a statewide level. Data requirements will need the ability to store 27,500 miles of roadway, that is approximately 137.5 terabytes per year. To ensure the data is stored and backed up in multiple locations, the data collected will need to be stored on premises for optimal processing. The data is used for monitoring, assessing and reporting on the condition, performance and safety of Florida's roadways as mandated by Florida Statutes

334.24.

Intended source (vendor, contractor): iXsystems, Inc.

Price: $324,890.00

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): iXsystems, Inc. is the author, developer and sole sourrce provider of the TrueNAS Open Source storage operating system and appliance. TrueNAS is the only known application which offers an Enterprise, highly-available, fully supported storage system built on OpenZFS that is avaialbe as a subscription model. TrueNAS is unique to iXsystems, Inc. and is only available directly from iXsystems, Inc.

Approved By (names & titles, as appropriate to Post on Vendor Bid System (VBS), e.g., requestor, requestor management, information systems, budget, purchasing, DMS approver)

Authorized Signature, Title

Docusign Envelope ID: A7D4AA8C-2614-4D91-8085-B4AAC91F073E

State Purchasing Administrator

07/24/2024 10:00AM EST

STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

FDOT NOTICE OF INTENDED DECISION

TO ENTER INTO A SINGLE SOURCE CONTRACT

(PUR 7778)

375-040-54

PROCUREMENT

01/16

PUR 7778 (rev. 10/14) Page 2 of 2 60A-1.010, F.A.C.

Failure to file a protest within the time prescribed in section 120.57(3), Florida Statutes, or failure to file a bond or other security within the time allowed for filing a bond, shall constitute a waiver of proceedings under Chapter 120, Florida Statutes.

Docusign Envelope ID: A7D4AA8C-2614-4D91-8085-B4AAC91F073E