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DEFENSELOGISTICSAGENCY

DLA CONTRACTINGSERVICES OFFICE - PHILADELPHIA

700 ROBBINSAVENUE

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA 19111-5092

LIMITED SOURCE JUSTIFICATION

(For Acquisition conducted under the Authority of the Multiple Award Schedule Program)

1. IDENTIFICATION OF THE AGENCY AND CONTRACTING ACTIVITY:

Requiring Activity:

Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Information Operations (J6) J64 – Technology Foundation Services 8000 Jefferson Davis Highway Richmond, VA 23297

POC:

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Email:

Contracting Activity:

DLA Contracting Services Office, Philadelphia (DCSO-P) 700 Robbins Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19111

2. NATURE AND/OR DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTION BEING APPROVED:

This limited source justification authorizes and approves the procurement of brand name VMWare Software Licenses and Maintenance Support. This order will be placed against a Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) Multiple Award Schedule contract with the General Services Administration (GSA).

3. A DESCRIPTION OF THE SUPPLIES OR SERVICES REQUIRED TO MEET THE

AGENCY’S NEEDS/ESTIMATED DOLLAR AMOUNT:

DLA has a requirement to procure VMWare Software Licenses and Maintenance Support. The maintenance support portion of this requirement will be for one year after the software licenses are delivered. The requirement is as follows:

Part Number Description Quantity

11-2155-LIC-L5

VMWare vSphere 6 with Operations Management Enterprise Plus for 1 processor VMWare Inc - VS6-OEPL-F-L5

11-2155-M1P

VMWare vSphere 6 with Operations Management Enterprise Plus for 1 processor VMWare Inc - VS6-OEPL-P-SSS-F

11-1982-LIC-L2

VMWare vRealize Operations 6 Enterprise (25 OSI Pack) VMWare Inc - VR6-

OENT25-F-L2

11-1982-M1P

VMWare vRealize Operations 6 Enterprise (25 OSI Pack) VMWare Inc - VR6-

OENT25-F-L2

LSJ – VMWare Software Licenses and Maintenance Support

11-2118-LIC-L1

VMWare vCenter Server 6 Standard for vSphere 6 (per instance) VMWare Inc -

VCS6-STD-F-L1

11-2118-M1P

VMWare vCenter Server 6 Standard for vSphere 6 (per instance) VMWare Inc -

VCS6-STD-F-L1

TAM-TIER-1-F

U.S. Federal Vmware Technical Account Manager (TAM) 1

The estimated cost for this requirement is .

4. THE AUTHORITY AND SUPPORTING RATIONALE (see 8.405-6(b) AND, IF

APPLICABLE, A DEMONSTRATION OF THE PROPOSED CONTRACTOR’S

UNIQUE QUALIFICATIONS TO PROVIDE THE REQUIRED SUPPLY OR

SERVICE:

The authority permitting other than full and open competition is 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1) and FAR 8.405-6(b). Brand name VMWare Software Licenses and Maintenance Support are essential to the Government’s requirements, and market research indicates other companies’ similar products, or products lacking the particular feature, do not meet and cannot be modified to meet the Government’s needs. A brand name item, whether available on one or more contracts, is an item particular to one manufacturer and may be procured by brand name specification if essential to the Government’s requirements. The Brand Name Descriptions for this acquisition effort which is VMWare Software Licenses and Maintenance Support are considered to be essential in order for the Government to meet mission requirements and no other item can meet the Government’s needs.

DLA requires a suite of enterprise scalable information technology (IT) virtualization capabilities. VMware is the virtualization product used by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) at their Defense Enterprise Computing Center (DECC) locations where most of DLA’s servers and mission critical applications are currently hosted. Implementing a standardized solution, using the same brand name specific VMware products, for the DLA’s remaining field site servers presents the lowest potential operational risk to our workforce, the warfighter and our customers; especially since these servers could be moving to DISA in the near future.

Over the past few years, while migrating most of its servers to DISA DECCs, the DLA invested over $5 million for VMware software licenses. The VMware products were installed, configured and tailored for use at the local data centers to virtualize the remaining servers. Now, due to growing requirements and the enterprise wide virtualization initiative, the DLA needs to purchase additional VMware software licenses to enhance and support the current DLA VMware virtualization solution. In order to keep the VMware software licenses current with the latest version, fixes, and patches as well as to obtain technical support, software maintenance is required for the new VMware software licenses. The software licenses and associated maintenance are proprietary to VMware and no other software OEM can provide such licenses and maintenance.

DLA has performed substantial technical research and system testing using several virtualization products. The results showed that only VMware satisfied all of the DLA’s virtualization requirements and that the use of non-VMware solutions would result in a non-standardized and non-integrated configuration consisting of multiple manufacturer products and product add-ons.

In the past, the DLA has experienced significant system administration, support, and interoperability problems with the implementation of non-standardized and non-integrated IT solutions. DLA seeks to reduce the associated operational risks by standardizing on a single virtualization product for the Agency in order to maintain compatibility with existing DLA and DISA solutions and achieve mission critical performance objectives.

DLA requires the procurement of maintenance support which is essential for this software.

Software maintenance support must be procured from an authorized VMWare maintenance provider. Software maintenance will provide DLA with the appropriate upgrades and patches throughout the maintenance period, but not having access to the upgrades and patches will put the agency at risk and in non-compliance with Joint Task Force-Global Network Operations (JTF-GNO) and DLA Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) policy; DLA will not be able to respond to vulnerabilities and upgrade taskings and it will expose us to potential disconnect from the DoD network by DISA. Any maintenance support other than proprietary brand name VMWare would not be compatible. VMWare maintenance support is owned by VMWare and is available only through designated resellers.

5. DEMONSTRATION THAT THE NATURE OF THE ACQUISITION REPRESENTS

THE BEST VALUE CONSISTENT WITH 8.404(d):

A Request for Quote (RFQ) will be published to the GSA e-buy system and authorized resellers of VMWare Software Licenses and Maintenance Support will be provided an opportunity to submit proposals for this requirement. The Contracting Officer will evaluate all proposals received, determine that pricing for this effort is considered fair and reasonable, and award a task order to the firm who represents the best value consistent with FAR 8.404(d).

6. DESCRIPTION OF THE MARKET RESEARCH CONDUCTED AMONGST GSA

SCHEDULE HOLDERS AND THE RESULTS OR A STATEMENT OF THE

REASON MARKET RESEARCH WAS NOT CONDUCTED:

Market Research was conducted with VMWare Software Licenses and Maintenance Support resellers on GSA and in the open market. A review of the GSA FSSs did identify resellers of the VMWare Software Licenses and Maintenance Support .

7. ANY OTHER FACTS SUPPORTING THE USE OR OTHER THAN FULL AND

OPEN COMPETITION:

N/A

8. A STATEMENT OF THE ACTIONS THAT THE AGENCY WILL TAKE TO

REMOVE OR OVERCOME ANY BARRIERS THAT LED TO THE

RESTRICTED CONSIDERATION BEFORE ANY SUBSEQUENT

PICCARI.ANTHON

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Digitally signed by

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ACQUSTION FOR THE SUPPLIES OR SERVICES IS MADE:

DLA has and continues to exercise competition as often as possible and is required to conduct ongoing reviews to keep abreast of new technology, both in industry and in the Government.

As a continuing effort DLA uses a variety of vendors, manufacturers, and contracts to fulfill its requirements and will continue its practice of surveying the market to ensure full and open competition.

In accordance with FAR Part 8.405-6(b)(3)(i), the Limited Source Justification and the Request for Quote will be posted on GSA e-buy.

9. CERTIFICATIONS:

Technical/Requirements Certification:

I hereby certify that the information provided for which I am responsible and which form a basis for this justification are complete and accurate.

DATE

Supervisory IT Business Program Support Analyst

DLA/J613A

Contracting Certification:

I hereby certify that this justification is complete and accurate to the best of my knowledge and belief.

9/16/2015

ANTHONY J. PICCARI DATE

Contracting Officer