Nagios Software

The state of Florida, specifically the Department of Transportation (FDOT), intends to enter into a single-source contract with Nagios Enterprises, LLC for the provision of Nagios software. The Nagios software is essential for the operations of the North Florida Regional Transportation Management Center (NFRTMC), as it minimizes downtime by quickly identifying network issues and bottlenecks, decreases maintenance response time, and provides system redundancy and failover capacity. The NFRTMC has been utilizing Nagios for the past nine years and needs to maintain the Nagios XI System to continue monitoring the ITS network and alerting of outages. The contract price for the Nagios software is $24,000.00, and the intended decision to enter into the single-source contract was posted on February 8, 2023, with a due date of February 12, 2023.

This procurement is a single-source acquisition, as Nagios Enterprises, LLC is the sole provider of the Nagios XI software. FDOT has determined that continuity of the current integrated software and its upgrades is mission-critical for the operations of the NFRTMC, and introducing a different software would create significant delay and/or downtime, which would result in a threat to public safety on the roadways. There is no competitive process for this procurement, as FDOT has justified the single-source acquisition, stating that Nagios XI provides all the necessary functions for network management without requiring the NFRTMC to redo thousands of hours of work, as the files are not portable to different proprietary software.