Justification for Exception to Fair Opportunity Logical Follow-on Palo Alto

Department of Transportation
Federal Highway Administration
Information Technology Acquisition Center of Excellence

JUSTIFICATION FOR AN EXCEPTION TO FAIR OPPORTUNITY

LOGICAL FOLLOW-ON

The Department of Transportation (DOT) makes this Justification for an Exception to Fair Opportunity for orders pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 16.507-6. (a) Identification of Agency and Contracting Activity:
Program Office:
DOT
Office of the Secretary of Transportation (OST)
Office of the Chief Digital and Information Officer (OCDIO) 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, D.C. 20590
Contracting Activity:
Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Information Technology (IT) Acquisition Center of Excellence (ACE) 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, D.C. 20590
(b) Nature and/or Description of Action Being Approved: The OCDIO has a need to update the requirements list under Task Order (TO) 693JJ126F00015N awarded to Colossal Contracting LLC. utilizing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Solution for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) governmentwide acquisition contract (GWAC). This requirement supports DOT’s strategic goal of organizational excellence by combating cyber threats, delivering accessible government services, and managing data systems to support decision-making, transparency, and accountability.
(c) Description of Supplies/Services and Estimated Value: Palo Alto Unit 42 is an extended detection and response platform that gathers and integrates all security data to stop sophisticated attacks. Palo Alto Unit 42 is an automated attack surface management (ASM) platform for identifying and mitigating cybersecurity threats against an organization’s infrastructure. The Palo Alto ASM platform combines the organization’s endpoint details collected by Cortex XDR with public asset information

discovered by Xpanse, allowing organizations to effectively identify and alert on security issues on remote worker systems and network environments. The purpose of this modification to order 693JJ126F00015N is to add emergency defensive support in response to the White House threat detection warning. The estimated amount of this extension is $539,460.00. This amount is based on service point enhancement credit hours. As a result, the total obligation amount for this order is increased by $539,460.00 from $124,773.00 to $664,233.00 and the total order value is increased by $539,460.00 from $259,531.82 to $798,991.82.
(d) Identification of the Exception to Fair Opportunity and Rationale: