A03_-_SSJ_HPE_VS_VSA__PLAD_18014_rev2_Redacted.pdf

Control Number: JA-E-16-729

Contractor: Hewlett-Packard

PM / Equipment: PM WIN-T INC1 RHNs / HPE SV VSA 2014 50TB 3yr E-LTU

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SOLE SOURCE JUSTIFICATION REVIEW DOCUMENT

FAR SUBPART 13.5 SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION PROCEDURES FOR CERTAIN

COMMERCIAL ITEMS – BRAND NAME JUSTIFICATION AND APPROVAL

Program/Equipment: PM WIN-T INC1 RHNs /(Hewlett Packard Enterprise StoreVirtual Virtual Storage

Appliance 2014 50TB 3-Year Enterprise-License To Use

Authority: Simplified Acquisition Procedures for Certain Commercial Items, 41 U.S.C.

1901(a)(2) as implemented by FAR Subpart 13.501(a)(2) and FAR 6.302-1(c)(1)

Amount:

Prepared by:

Software Engineering Center (SEC)

Centralized Acquisition and License

Management (CALM) Action Officer

Email:

DSN:

Date:

8/31/2016

Contracting Officer:

Contracting Officer

Email:

08 Sep 2016

Technical:

SEC C3T Requirement Planning Officer

Email:

Requirements: DSN:

Email:

Reviews: I have reviewed this justification and find it adequate to support other than full and open competition.

Program Manager:

Name: DSN:

Chief, WIN-T Branch

PM / Equipment: : PM WIN-T INC1 RHNs / HPE SV VSA 2014 50TB 3yr E-LTU

FAR Subpart 13.5 Simplified Acquisition Procedures for Certain Commercial Items – Sole Source Justification and Approval – Brand Name

1. Contracting Activity: U.S. Army Contracting Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Building

6001 Combat Drive, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005

2. Description of Action: Communications Electronics Command (CECOM) Software

Engineering Center (SEC) requests a Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) contract for the brand name procurement of Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) Hewlett Packard Enterprise StoreVirtual

Virtual Storage Appliance 2014 50TB 3-Year Enterprise-License To Use (HPE SV VSA 2014

50TB 3yr E-LTU) license and support for the Army Project Manager Warfighter Information

Network-Tactical Increment 1 (WIN-T INC 1) Regional Hub Nodes (RHNs). This will be comprised of base year only for 36-months. The government anticipates a September 2016 award using FY16 Other Procurement, Army (OPA) funds. This acquisition is using customer supplied

OPA funds as this product will bring additional functionality to the system. The applicable North

American Industry Classification System Code (NAICS) is 541519, Other Computer Related

Services.

X An acquisition plan is not required because this procurement does not meet the threshold at

Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement 207.103(d)(i)(B).

3. Description of Supplies/Services: The proposed action is for the brand name commercial-off-the-shelf purchase of HPE SV VSA software and support for the Army PM WIN-T

RHNs are transport nodes, strategically located at

Standard Tactical Entry Point (STEP) locations globally, which enable the Army’s ability to

RHNs are the upper-most level of the WIN-T network architecture and enable regionalized reach-back to the Army’s global network, to include the recently installed

Commercial Internet and Phone (COM-IP) in support of contingency operations, disaster relief or National emergency response and are currently in use by both deployed Marine Corps and

Army units. RHNs provide tactical users with secure, reliable connectivity worldwide. The HPE

StoreVirtual is a software-defined storage platform that scales in any direction and provides data mobility across tiers, locations and between physical and virtual storage. It enables linear scaling of capacity and performance. The snapshot and remote copy features of the HPE VSA reduce the time and effort required to perform the backup and recovery of data.

The RHN team can greatly reduce the need for onsite operations as the HPE SV VSA also provides remote operations through the virtual appliance to control the data and data backups. The technology used in this software

Product No. Description Quantity

TC499AAE Hewlett Packard Enterprise Store Virtual Virtual Storage

Appliance 2014 50TB 3-Year Enterprise-License To Use

Period of Performance: Date of Award through 36 months

4. Authority Cited: Simplified Acquisition Procedures for Certain Commercial Items, 41

U.S.C.1901(a)(2) as implemented by FAR Subpart 13.501(a)(2) and FAR 6.302-1(c)(1).

X Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements, and brand name descriptions.

5. Reason for the Authority Cited: This acquisition requires the purchase of the brand-name HPE

SV VSA manufactured by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, 13600 EDS Drive, Herndon, VA 20171.

The particular brand name product or feature is essential to the government’s requirements; and market research indicates other companies’ similar products, or products lacking particular features, do not meet, or cannot be modified to meet, the agency’s needs. The HPE SV VSA software products are proprietary and only available from HPE, the OEM, or its authorized resellers. HPE owns the copyrighted source software with all legal rights, privileges, and ownership contained therein. No other source may legally modify or change the software, nor would they have access to the source code to do so.

The HPE SV VSA provides unique capabilities to manage the RHNs distributed storage resources in a more efficient manner than other commercial virtual storage appliances available. NetApp’s virtual storage appliances were reviewed but provided limited performance on the RHN virtual machine infrastructure architecture as the item was designed. WIN-T has worked with HPE to develop specialized initialization and configuration scripts that are not compatible with other vendor’s virtual storage appliance products.

WIN-T requires software maintenance for HPE SV VSA products to ensure the availability of critical software patches, fixes, updates and other technical support from HPE to

Both, failure to upgrade VMWare due to lack of support and failure to obtain support for HPE SV VSA, which will result in WIN-T’s loss of their Authority to Operate (ATO) for the RHNs, due to failure to maintain vendor support in WIN-T’s software baseline is a Category 1 security finding.

If the source is not limited to HPE SV VSA products, RHN fielding will be delayed and an analysis of alternatives will need to be performed again to select and insert a similar product into the baseline. Selecting another product would also

. The selection, integration, and operational testing is estimated to cost over and

. This duplicative cost will not be recouped through competition. It would also prevent the warfighter from

. Without the HPE SV VSA products the virtual infrastructure of the RHNs would be significantly impacted. The HPE SV VSA products host the full networking operations capabilities for monitoring, management and trends analysis, as well as cyber security tools.

The dollar value and time frame is developed based on information provided by the original program office and SEC CALM on the original software selection process and adjusted to accommodate any changes to the selection, testing, certification, integration and other procedures to obtain funding and complete the transition to an alternate product. The below outlines the events and costs.

Effort Duration Cost

Engineering

Testing and Evaluation

Training Development

Integration Development

Training and Fielding

IA

Totals

6. Efforts to Obtain Competition: The Software Engineering Center (SEC), Centralized

Acquisition and License Management (CALM) Team conducted market research, details of which are in the market research section of this document, paragraph 8. Contracting Officer will publish the notices required by FAR 5.201 and any bids or proposals received shall be considered.

a. Effective Competition: Each the requirement is submitted for acquisition, SEC CALM surveys the market place to determine if any changes have taken place that would affect competition.

b. Subcontracting Competition: There are no subcontracting opportunities for this effort.

7. Actions to Increase Competition: Commercial software manufacturers are encouraged to increase the number of authorized resellers. Additionally, upon receipt of the requirement an authorized list of authorized distributors for this software is immediately requested from the original manufacturer. The manufacturer is also encouraged to pursue distribution of their products/services through Small businesses, Hub-zone, Service Disabled Veteran Owned, and Woman Owned Small businesses.

8. Market Research: Market research was performed by the CALM Team on 17 August 2016.

Searches were performed on the Army Computer Hardware Enterprise Software Solutions

(CHESS) (RFQ#17118), the Enterprise Software Initiative (ESI) website, the General Services

Administration (GSA) website (RFQ#1127640), and the National Aeronautics and Space

Administration (NASA) Solutions for Enterprise Wide Procurement (SEWP) (RFQ#40053). Below are the responses received from the market research queries:

Company Name Contract Business Category

FedStore NNG15SD21B SDVOSB

OCG Telecom NNG15SD13B HUBZone, SDB, SB

MVS NNG15SD12B HUBZone, 8(a)

FEDBIZ IT Solutions NNG15SD01B HUBZone, EDWVOSB

Blue Tech NNG15SC63B HUBZone, SDB, WOSB

Better Direct NNG15SC10B SDVOSB

Westwind Computer Products NNG15SD04B HUBZone

RedHawk IT Solutions NNG15SD38B VOSB, SDVOSB

PCITEC NNG15SD02B HUBZone, EDWOSB and SWaM

V3Gate NNG15SD27B SDVOSB

KPAUL Properties NNG15SD33B SDVOSB

New Tech Solutions GS-35F-0791N 8(a) Minority Owned SDB

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Open Market Other Than Small Business

A query was sent to the manufacturer for a list of resellers as well as a general web search. In response to this query the manufacturer stated that on the software contract Hewlett Packard does not have an aligned partner. Received no bid from Army CHESS ESI’s contractors.

CHESS provided the CALM team with a Statement of Non- Availability (SoNA) # 216712587.

9. Interested Sources: The Government Point of Entry (GPE) notice required by FAR

5.201 will be published on the Federal Business Opportunities Page. Any proposals that are received shall be considered.

10. Other Facts:

a. Procurement History: No previous history with the Army. This requirement was previously procured through an integrated Contractor.

11. Technical Certification: I certify that the supporting data under my cognizance that are included in this justification are accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

SEC C3T Requirement Planning Officer DSN:

12. Requirements Certification: I certify that the supporting data under my cognizance that are included in this justification are accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Chief, Contracts Division

13. Fair and Reasonable Cost Determination: I hereby determine that the anticipated cost or price to the Government for this contract action will be fair and reasonable.

This determination will be made using the following:

X PRICE ANALYSIS X IGCE

As a part of this basis, certified cost or pricing data is not required because the item and/or services being acquired are considered commercial.

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Contracting Officer

12. Procuring Contracting Officer Certification: I certify that this justification is accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Contracting Officer

*Contracting Officer signature at paragraph 12 (Contracting Officer Certification) constitutes approval. Approval page not required.

Date: 9-8-2016

Date:9-8-2016