Justification NAICS 541513

The purpose of the bridge order is to maintain continuity of operations of all the tasks in the FDA Data Center and Infrastructure Support Task Order until such a time when a new contract is awarded and transition activities are completed. Tasks include the management of FDAs four data centers, providing enterprise services, data center lease and operations, application operations, database operations, running the System Management Center (SMC), and related project management activities. The services to be provided under the bridge order are mission critical to the FDA; without the services, the FDA would not be able to serve the public as the FDA would not have any network connectivity, or data center and enterprise services. The incumbent contractor has all the necessary the staff in place with expert knowledge for operating and maintaining the data center and networks. A rushed and improper transition from one contractor to the next could severely impact the continuity of operations for the FDA and creates a great potential for an overarching agency failure. The FDA is seeking the same level of support services with the incumbent until a new competitive procurement is awarded in...

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