Firewall Migration

Added: Aug 04, 2015 9:51 am The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on behalf of NASS, intends to award sole source contract to Dell Secureworks. The purpose of this award is for firewall migration. NASS will obtain technical support in migrating and installing NASS Fortigate and Cisco firewalls. The migration will include a Fortigate 311b HA pairto 1000 HA pair at the USDA NITC Enterprise Data Center (EDC) in Kansas City, MO, a Fortigate 60d to 90d stand-alone device at the USDA NASS Headquarters in Washington, DC and the install of a Cisco 5585 at the USDA NITC EDC in St. Louis, MO. The migration will include a health/system check of software and hardware, configuring current devices, migration of policies, migration of rules, migration of users, migration of network routers, and setting up intrusion detection/prevention. Dell Secureworks will also provide security solutions and reports and analyses.

The NAICS Code for this requirement is 541519 - Other Computer Related Services

Authority for this sole source procurement is under 10 U.S.C.2403 (c) (1) as implemented in FAR 6.302-1 (b) (1) (i), only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. This notice is a not a request for competitive quotations. No solicitation document is available and telephone request will not be honored. Any firm that believes it can provide the services listed above may submit substantiating documentation in writing to the identified point of contact. The successful company must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) and also the Online Representations and Certification (ORCA) at http://orca.bpn.gov. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. A determination not to compete this proposed contract based on responses to this notice is solely at the discretion of the Government. The point of contact for this action is Ms. Sabrina Brown and any response must be emailed to Sabrina.Brown@ars.usda.gov. Verbal responses are not acceptable and will not be considered. Interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to this requirement no later than August 14, 2015.