Sole Brand Designation Notice - VMWare Foundation Suites

NOTICE OF INTENT TO DESIGNATE SOLE BRAND The Division of Purchasing is publishing this notice pursuant to the Broward County Procurement Code section, 21.25, Sole Source/Only Reasonable Source and 21.26, Sole Brand. DETERMINATION OF OTHER INTERESTED VENDORS The intent of this notice is to determine if there are any other interested and qualified vendors that meet the specifications of this notice. Any such vendor must submit the following information: 1.The name of the interested party; and 2.A detailed explanation consisting of any or all documentation showing that there are other competing sources for the identified goods or services herein. Regardless of any prior communications with the Division of Purchasing, all vendors interested in responding to this notice must submit a response to this posting containing complete responses to all of the information requested above. Any questions regarding this notice may be obtained through the Division of Purchasing during this publication

period. No action is required if you agree with this notice. If after the public notice period, the Division of Purchasing determines that there are other interested and qualified vendors that meet the specifications of this notice, the Division of Purchasing will not award a contract pursuant to this notice. If after the public notice no valid submission have been received, Broward County, or designee, may award a contract to the identified vendor without competition. Please read the entire form very carefully before responding to this notice. THIS REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) IS INTENDED TO ASCERTAIN WHETHER THE COMMODITY OR SERVICE SPECIFIED BELOW IS CURRENTLY ONLY AVAILABLE FROM AN ONLY ONE SOURCE, ONLY REASONABLE SOURCE OR SOLE BRAND. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PRICING OR A COMMITMENT TO PURCHASE. THE DIRECTOR OF PURCHASING SHALL CONSIDER SUCH SUBMITTALS AND NOTIFY ALL SUBMITTING VENDORS OF THE DECISION WHETHER TO DESIGNATE A SOLE SOURCE, ONLY REASONABLE SOURCE OR SOLE BRAND, WHICH DECISION SHALL NOT BE SUBJECT TO OBJECTION, PROTEST OR APPEAL UNDER THE BROWARD COUNT PROCUREMENT CODE. Broward County seeks Sole Brand Designation of VMware branded products and to solicit a multi-year award for county-wide use for various product lines of VMware, VMware Foundation Suites, End User Compute Products and Carbon Black Enhanced Detection Response solutions by Broadcom, Inc. Products in use include virtual servers, virtual firewalls, virtual desktop instances, virus enhanced detection and response (EDR) and administrative tools that are subscription based. VMware products are highly integrated and will require costly and long-term migration efforts to an alternate hypervisor (virtual) solution and to re-engineer and replace existing VMware products currently in use by Broward County. Description :-Broward County Enterprise Technology Services seeks to confirm Sole Brand market condition for VMware subscription services through VMWare Authorized Partners.