75N95025Q00041

Description of Requirement:
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the nation's leading medical research agency and the primary Federal agency whose mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability, conducting, supporting, and making medical discoveries that improve people's health and save lives. Nagios XI software is a monitoring and alert system that is used by the NCATS Infrastructure. Nagios will assist NCATS engineers in monitoring NCATS servers and websites. The Nagios software is a notification system that is used to inform system administrators of possible problems. It will allow/alert NCATS Infrastructure team to know when there are issues in all Linux, Windows, and web application platforms. The previous version of monitoring software did not meet all the needs for NCATS. Some of the features that this will provide for NCATS include, historical data, reporting, and the ability to better track problems within the environment.
PLEASE VIEW THE PURCHASE DESCRIPTION.
DATE OF DELIVERY: ARO – 15 Days
SALIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
Nagios XI will provide NCATS IT engineers with monitoring workflows, health checks, custom metrics, logs, alert and incident management, endpoint management, auto-remediation and observability control plane.
XI:XI-UNL-MSP-1Y
XIR:XI-ENTRENEW-1Y
SUPPORT:SPPHONE5
LIMITING SOURCES, ITEMS PECULIAR TO ONE MANUFACTURER: NCATS requires the following software as peculiar to one manufacturer to assure a smooth transition of data being configured for our organization.
Nagios Enterprise License Add-on Qty. 1
Phone Support Qty. 1
Nagios XI Unlimited Node Email Support & Maintenance Plan Qty.1
EVALUATION CRITERIA: The Government plans to place a delivery order with the schedule contractor whose quote represents the best value based on Technical Capability, Past Performance, and Price.
QUOTER TERMS AND CONDITIONS: (to be filled out by the Offeror):
1. Period of Performance OR Delivery Date After Receipt of Order:
2. Technical description of the product being offered, in sufficient detail to evaluate compliance with the requirements of the Description of Requirement above. Provide product or catalog number(s); product or service description, list price, unit price, unit discounts, total price, any shipping and handling costs, country of origin, etc
3. Payment Discount Terms, Total price:
4. Open Market; GSA FSS Contract Number; Other Government Agency (OGA) Contract Number, Government-wide Agency (GWAC) Contract Number; or National Institute of Health (NIH) Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) Number:
5. Company Unique Entity ID:
6. Name of Company:
7. Address of Company (including Street Address, City, State, Zip code):
8. Name and Contact information (phone number and email) of Person Authorized to Provide Quote:
9. Any other information or factors that may be considered in the award decision. Such factors may include; past performance, special features required for effective program performance, probable life of the item selected as compared with that of a comparable item, warranty considerations, maintenance availability, and environmental and energy efficiency considerations
ADDITIONAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS, PROVISIONS, AND REPRESENTATIONS:
The full text of a clause or provision may be accessed electronically at these addresses:
https://www.acquisition.gov/browse/index/far
https://www.hhs.gov/grants/contracts/contract-policies-regulations/hhsar/index.html
The provisions of the Offeror’s GSA Federal Supply Schedule Contract are incorporated by
reference.
The following provisions apply and are incorporated by reference:
1. HHSAR 352.239-73, Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility Notice (December 18,2015)
The clauses of the Offeror’s GSA Federal Supply Schedule Contract are incorporated by
reference.
The following clauses apply and are incorporated by reference:
1. HHSAR 352.222-70 Contractor Cooperation in Equal Employment Opportunity Investigations
(December 18, 2015)
2. HHSAR 352.239-74, Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility (December 18, 2015)
The following apply to this acquisition and are incorporated in full text as attachments:
1. Purchase Description
2. Invoice and Payment Provisions (Vendor Has Transitioned to IPP)
SUMMARY STATEMENT: Responses to this solicitation must include clear and convincing evidence of the offeror’s capability of fulfilling the requirement as it relates to the technical evaluation criteria. The quote must be for a firm-fixed-price total amount inclusive of all costs and fees.