Description
This is a notice of intent to issue an order to Onix Networking Corporation under their GSA schedule GS-35F-5519H, on a sole source basis under the authority of FAR 6.302-1, Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy Agency Requirements, 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1). The proposed procurement is for the renewal of a 2-year license for a Google Search Appliance, Model No. GB-5005-5M-DIS, to include hardware, software, product updates, support and product replacement coverage, 5 million documents, disconnected and premium support service with 24/7 for critical, phone support for sevo (system down) issues, 1 business hour response time, 2 business hours response time, 8 business hours and next business day response. Delivery and acceptance are FOB Destination to Alexandria, VA. The Department of Defense requires a hardware/software turnkey system that can be incorporated into the existing system architecture with minimal integration, and which can be pointed at all websites across the DoD enterprise, including the component services (i.e., the defenselink, Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines dot mil websites), allowing the capability to search across domains. The salient characteristics include: Front-end search functionality -- Index up to 5 million documents; Ability to configure separate indexes of multiple sites and administrative roles for crawling, serving, and monitoring of all aspects of the search engine; Automatic spell check of queries to avoid missing results due to typos or misspellings; Results grouping to organize search results into intelligent grouping of similar or identical documents that reside in more than one location; Cached pages much be available in search results even when origin the sites are down serving cached copies of pages from the search server; Highlight query terms to quickly find the most relevant section of a document using the highlighted query terms displayed on cached documents; Provide HTML view of documents without needing the original client application of the file formats such as Word, PDF or Spreadsheets. Administrative Tools -- Monitoring of health, crawling and serving status via a standard SNMP interface; Ability to define synonyms for organization-specific acronyms or terminology and have those terms display suggested alternative queries. (For example a synonym for SECDEF could be created to return content with “Gates”, “Secretary of Defense” etc.); Define matches between URLs and keywords so that targeted results appear above the main set of search results; Look and Feel Customizable to apply organization specific branding; Reporting View and export daily and hourly result sets, top queries, special feature Usage. This announcement constitutes the only notice, a written solicitation will not be issued. Interested persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement or submit proposals. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. However, the Government will consider all proposals received by the closing date specified in this notice. A determination by the Government not to compete with this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. See attached sole source justification.