70 -- LeoStream Software Maintenance

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) plans to renew the annual maintenance of LeoStream software products for approximately $145,000. Leostream is an application server with agents that enables full-featured management of VMWare. Advanced features include automated fail over and scalability to manage up to 25,000 VMs across a Wide Area Network. Leostream has already been deployed successfully in a variety of projects in our information technology lab and production environments to support workstations for the approved USPTO Enterprise Remote Access (Telework) solution. This procurement is for the second phase of a three year implementation plan that was defined in the Patent Hoteling Program Business Execution Plan of August 3, 2005. There has been no change in the design and no new products are being purchased. This procurement is solely for additional licenses and maintenance support of the products that were put into use after the initial procurement that was executed with the BNJ dated May 24, 2006. Any attempt to replace Leostream with a different brand on a schedule more aggressive than the one currently in place, will cause USPTO not to meet Congressional mandates. This announcement is considered a ?brand name? justification. This acquisition will be conducted utilizing Part 13 of the FAR, Simplified Acquisition procedures and the Patent and Trademark Acquisition Guidelines (PTAG). The acquisition will be conducted utilizing existing Blanket Purchase Agreements for Information Technology products within the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. If you have questions regarding this notice, they may be addressed by email to Connie Lum at [email protected].