Fiscal Service on behalf of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) intends to award an Order to GitHub Inc. on a sole source basis, under authority of FAR 6.302-1, for GitHub Enterprise Licenses.
Github Enterprise (GE) is a web-based, project management and source code control software used by software developers. GE resides behind CFPB's firewall, and includes such features as issue tracking, collaborative code review and assignment, documentation and permissions, which when combined allow a software developer to manage an entire team of software developers working on a particular project. The source code is vital to the development of all of CFPB's software applications featured on its website. GE also allows CFPB to publish its open source code to Git, which enables users in the public domain to use the open source code. CFPB needs a project and source code development management software to effectively and efficiently continue its software development, and continue to push source code to the public domain. Ceasing pushing source code to public domain would be a violation from CFPB's Source Code Policy, available here: http://www.consumerfinance.gov/developers/sourcecodepolicy/.

Additionally, GE features two-factor security authentication. The authentication prevents unauthorized access to CFPB's GE account and its proprietary, non-public source code. Any product used by CFPB for source code and project management must utilize two-factor authentication for its security procedures.

Since the launch of CFPB, the Technology and Innovation (T&I) division has used Git and GE for its source code management and software development process. Currently, CFPB has thousands of lines of programming code
contained in 10 public and 100 internal repositories in both GE and Git. Switching to another source code management framework or software would require this code to be copied and retested before being deployed, and
force CFPB to restructure and write new standard procedures for its Development team. At least sixty (60) different CFPB employees at any given time have been working on writing source code into GE and Git since CFPB's inception. CFPB has been writing source code into GE and Git since 2011. It is estimated it would take a similar number of resources a minimum of six (6) months to move the source code over to new software. During which time CFPB would not be able to take on new software development projects, as the resources that would handle the coding of those projects would be dedicated to transferring source code to the new repository. Such changes would carry a significant administrative burden, and would ultimately be detrimental to the CFPB development team's ability to develop and maintain software code.

Therefore, Github Enterprise is the only software capable of meeting CFPB's needs. This software is only available through the manufacturer, GitHub, Inc. Accordingly, GitHub, Inc. is the only source capable of meeting CFPB's needs.

No solicitation package will be issued. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations; however, the Government will consider responses received by December 16, 2013 by 2:00 pm ET. Responses shall be submitted to [email protected], ATTN: K. Mahurin/ C. Gropp.

A determination by the Government not to compete the proposed acquisition based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement.

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