D -- Sole-Source Contract

The Untied States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) intends to issue a sole-source commercial item contract with a one-year base period and three, one-year option periods to Keynote Systems (formally Hudson Williams). The USPTO intends to award a firm fixed price commercial items contract in accordance with Simplified Acquisitions Procedures, FAR Part 12, and the Test Program at FAR Subpart 13.5. This is NOT a formal solicitation and no solicitation will be issued as a result of this synopsis. This action is issued in accordance with FAR 6.302-1, (Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements). This sole-source contract will be for services in the area of Performance Measurement Integration with many different key USPTO applications using the SAS/ITRM product. The SAS/ITRM product needs to be tailored to accept input from our Network Microsoft OS Clients, Network Microsoft OS Servers, BRS Net Answer logs, BRS Security Logs, CoolGen Transaction Tracker logs, Application Response Measurement transaction collected by Open View Service Reporter, and Open View snmpCollect MIBs for Nortel Gigabit Ethernet switches and Cisco routers. Keynote Systems (formally Hudson Williams) has been providing these services to the USPTO and it is necessary for them to continue tasks in developing solutions to collect performance measurement data for analysis in performance and capacity planning. Keynote Systems (formally Hudson Williams) address is, 233 Broadway, 40th floor, New York, NY 10279.