Check Point Hardware, Software, Maintenance and Support

Added: Apr 23, 2015 3:15 pm Amendment 004
Solicitation SB1341-15-RQ-0280

The purposes of this amendment are:

1. To correct a mistake in the Part Number listed for CLIN 13 in the Schedule of Required Items. The attached document titled "Amendment 004 Schedule of Required Items" details the correct Part Number for CLIN 13. The attached Amendment 004 Schedule of Required Items shall be used as the official schedule of line items from the date of issuance of this Amendment.

2. To extend the response deadline of the solicitation to April 24, 2015 at 5:00 PM Eastern Time.
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Added: Apr 20, 2015 12:29 pm Amendment 003
Solicitation SB1341-15-RQ-0280

The purpose of this amendment is to correct the Part Numbers listed for CLINs 10, 11 and 12 in the Schedule of Required Items.  The attached document titled "Amendment 003 Schedule of Required Items" shows the changes made and the correct Part Numbers for all CLINs; and shall be used as the official Schedule of Required Items from the date of issuance of this amendment.
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Added: Apr 20, 2015 9:01 am Amendment 002
Solicitation SB1341-15-RQ-0280

The purposes of this amendment are:

1. To correct a mistake in the Part Number listed for CLIN 3 in the Schedule of Required Items.  The attached document titled "Amendment 002 Schedule of Required Items" details the correct Part Number for CLIN 3.  The attached Amendment 002 Schedule of Required Items shall be used as the official schedule of line items from the date of issuance of this Amendment.

2. To extend the response deadline of the solicitation to April 24, 2015 at 12:00 PM Eastern Time. 
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Added: Apr 13, 2015 1:29 pm Amendment 001
Solicitation SB1341-15-RQ-0280

The purpose of this amendment is to respond to a question posed by an interested party.  The question and its response can be found below:

Question & Response:

Q:  Please provide the Check Point User Center Account ID or please advise if this is a request for new Check Point products and services.

Response:  The Check Point User Center Account ID is 6598303.  All quotations must demonstrate that the products and services being quoted are for the correct User Center Account ID. 
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Added: Apr 09, 2015 12:20 pm THIS IS A COMBINED SYNOPSIS/SOLICITATION FOR COMMERCIAL
ITEMS PREPARED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FORMAT IN FAR SUBPART 12.6-STREAMLINED PROCEDURES FOR EVALUATION AND SOLICITATION
FOR COMMERCIAL ITEMS-AS SUPPLEMENTED WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION INCLUDED IN THIS NOTICE. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONSTITUTES THE ONLY SOLICITATION; QUOTATIONS ARE BEING REQUESTED, AND A SEPARATE WRITTEN SOLICITATION DOCUMENT WILL NOT BE ISSUED. THE SOLICITATION IS BEING ISSUED USING SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION PROCEDURES UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF FAR 13.5 TEST PROGRAM FOR CERTAIN COMMERCIAL ITEMS.

The NIST Office of Information Systems Management (OISM) Security & Networking Division/Network Security Team provides network firewall, intrusion prevention, intrusion detection, remote access, and 2-factor authentication services for NIST. This procurement is for Check Point hardware, software, maintenance and support. The NIST Network Security Team uses strategically placed Check Point firewalls to provide network security protection for both NIST campuses. All firewalls are centrally managed with Check Point firewall management appliances located at each site.

Specifically, this procurement is to replace the pair of NIST Gaithersburg main firewall appliances (over 5 years old) with 13800 Next Generation High Performance firewall appliances; to replace at least three pairs of internal Gaithersburg firewalls (over 5 years old) with a single pair of 41000 Security Gateway Chassis 20 Core firewall appliances; to replace the current firewall management appliances (over 5 years old) with Smart-1 3050 appliances (2 for Gaithersburg and 1 for Boulder) to handle load increases anticipated as bandwidth increases and cloud services expand. Also included in this procurement are software licenses for testing firewall functionality within virtualization systems such as VMware, additional software blades to add security functionality to Internet-facing firewalls (Anti-Bot, URL Filtering and Application Control), and Premium Support & Maintenance. Premium support includes nights and weekend coverage which is essential since NIST requires all planned upgrades and patches to be performed outside of NIST business hours.

The attachment titled "Schedule of Required Items" provides a complete listing of the support requirements. For a justification of the requirement for Check Point brand name only products, please see the attachment titled "Brand Name Justification- SB1341-15-RQ-0280."

This solicitation is a Request for Quotation (RFQ). The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2005-80.

The associated North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 541519- Information Technology Value Added Resellers. The associated small business size standard is 150 employees. This acquisition is 100% set aside for small businesses under the applicable small business size standard.

NIST anticipates the award of a single, firm-fixed price purchase order. All offerors shall provide a firm-fixed price quotation in accordance with the Instructions to Offerors for the line items detailed in the Schedule of Required Items attachment.

APPLICABLE ATTACHMENTS:

Attached to this solicitation are the following:
1. Solicitation- SB1341-15-RQ-0280
2. Schedule of Required Items
3. Applicable Provisions and Clauses
4. Brand Name Justification