The Department of Defense is buying Broadcom/VMWare licenses, which suits a business that can provide these specific software products, as the agency has justified restricting consideration to this brand due to compatibility issues with their current virtual infrastructure. This procurement is coded under NAICS 513210 and PSC 7A21. As a justification notice, this indicates that the agency does not intend to solicit bids, so interested parties should track the opportunity for potential future developments.
Analysis by Mindy, grounded in the SAM.gov notice.
Description
FAR 8.405-6 requires an ordering activity to justify its actions when
restricting consideration of schedule
contractors to fewer than required in FAR 8.405-1.
FAR 8.405-6(b)(1), “The item is peculiar to one manufacturer. A brand name
item, whether available on one or more schedule contracts, is an item
peculiar to one manufacturer.”
This software is the entirety of the virtual infrastructure that is currently
operating on all of our networks. To overcome the restricted consideration,
the agency would be required to completely redeploy the entire virtual
infrastructure for all of our networks. There could potentially be all kinds of
issues with trying to deploy different applications for the virtual
infrastructure. No other software is compatible with the current
infrastructure and there would be a significant duplication of
cost/labor/training/possible downtime that would be associated with
switching to another virtual infrastructure product which would not be
recovered through competition.
Broadcom/VMWare Licenses
VMware Cloud Foundation Base Period
Part #: VCF-CLD-FND
Qty: 2,136
VMware Avi Load Balancer
Part: ANS-VMW-ALB
Qty: 16
PoP: 2/1/26 - 8/5/26
VMware Cloud Foundation Year 1
Part #: VCF-CLD-FND
Qty: 2,136
VMware Avi Load Balancer
Part: ANS-VMW-ALB
Qty: 16
PoP: 8/6/26 - 8/5/27
VMware Cloud Foundation Option Year 1
Part #: VCF-CLD-FND
Qty: 2,136
VMware Avi Load Balancer
Part: ANS-VMW-ALB
Qty: 16
PoP: 8/6/27 - 8/5/28
VMware Cloud Foundation Option Year 2
Part #: VCF-CLD-FND
Qty: 2,136
VMware Avi Load Balancer
Part: ANS-VMW-ALB
Qty: 16
PoP: 8/6/28 - 8/5/29
VMware Cloud Foundation Option Year 3
Part #: VCF-CLD-FND
Qty: 2,136
VMware Avi Load Balancer
Part: ANS-VMW-ALB
Qty: 16
PoP: 8/6/29 - 8/5/30
Source: SAM.gov, as posted. Verify the current solicitation before responding.
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