SB1341-15-RQ-0336_Attachment_2_Brand_Name_Justification_(Ref._15-02249).pdf

Brand Name Justification

Solicitation Number SB1341‐15‐RQ‐0336

This procurement request is for the renewal of sixteen (16) processor perpetual licenses and 400 named user plus perpetual licenses. This requirement is for specific brand name software.

NIST requires software that enables standby Oracle databases to be open for read‐only access

(reporting, queries, sorting, etc.) while changes from the primary production Oracle database are continuously applied to the standby databases. All queries reading from the physical replicas must execute in real‐time and return current results. The software must provide management, monitoring, and automation tools to create and maintain one or more synchronized standby replica databases of a primary production database. The software must be able to keep the standby databases logically isolated from the primary production database so that a fault in one database cannot affect another database. The software must apply corruption‐detection checks insure that data from the primary database is logically and physically consistent before it is applied to a standby database. The software must be able to recover from interruptions of the network communications between the primary database and the standby databases, or from a shutdown of any of the databases.

The software must integrate with NIST’s current Oracle databases. The software must work with NIST’s current version 11g Oracle databases and provide an upgrade path to Oracle 12c databases. The software must be supported by Oracle. This software will be employed with NIST’s financial databases, starting with the databases supporting the Comprizon Suite (C.Request and C.Award), and NIST cannot afford downtime due to multiple vendors each contending that any problem is the fault of another vendor’s software.