Re: Solicitation 75N97019R00012
The National Library of Medicine is seeking to acquire Information Technology (IT) services under a single enterprise contract to support the acquisition and lifecycle management of commodity software at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The overall objective of this acquisition is to acquire SAM-related activities that involve managing and optimizing the purchase, deployment, maintenance, utilization, and disposal of enterprise software applications within the NIH. To achieve this, the contractor must provide services and deliverables as described to meet objectives.
Automated Inventory
Objective: An accurate snapshot of all NIH software usage (consumption) on all platforms at any given time exists in an automated NIH software inventory. This includes all software regardless of the ownership status of the software.
The Contractor shall create and maintain a comprehensive inventory of all NIH COTS software.
IBM BigFix is currently installed at NIH and is used by the OCIO Information Security and Awareness Office for continuous diagnostics and monitoring of assets on the NIH network. The Inventory Module is installed on NIH BigFix instances and data is aggregated among the different instances of BigFix using SPLUNK…
Entitlement and Licensing Analysis
Objective: An accurate accounting of all NIH enterprise software entitlements at any given time in an NIH software license management database. The term ‘enterprise’ means all those agreements that are managed at the NIH corporate level rather than by ICs for IC use.
HHS has specified a data taxonomy (See Section 3.1) to be used by HHS OpDivs (such as NIH) when managing software assets…
