Special procurement to extend Filemaker maintenance and hosting contract
Federal opportunity from Department of Administrative Services. Place of performance: OR. Response deadline: Jun 23, 2025.
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Special procurement to extend Filemaker maintenance and hosting contract
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The Oregon Department of Administrative Services is issuing a special procurement to extend an existing FileMaker maintenance and hosting contract. The notice is narrowly framed as a contract extension rather than a new competitive build-out, implying an incumbent-leaning action. The only firm milestone provided is a response deadline of 2025-06-23 at 17:00 UTC. Bidders should validate whether the state is accepting competitive offers or only seeking approval/justification for a non-competitive extension before investing significant proposal effort.
Extend the current FileMaker maintenance and hosting contract under a special procurement process, maintaining continuity of support and hosting services for an existing FileMaker environment.
- The incumbent provider currently delivering the FileMaker maintenance and hosting contract to Oregon DAS.
- A FileMaker maintenance/support and hosting firm that can demonstrate ability to assume an existing FileMaker environment quickly and can comply with a special procurement process (only if the state is actually accepting competitive responses).
- Extend FileMaker maintenance services under the current contract structure (scope details not provided).
- Extend hosting services for the existing FileMaker deployment (hosting model and environment not provided).
- Maintain service continuity during the extension period (extension term not provided).
- A clear statement confirming your role (incumbent vs. alternate) and how you will provide FileMaker maintenance and hosting during the extension.
- Evidence of current/previous FileMaker maintenance and hosting services (contracts, references, or case summaries relevant to FileMaker).
- Proposed extension approach: service continuity plan, escalation/support model, and hosting operations (as applicable to your offering).
- Any required special procurement justification/support narrative if the agency expects vendor input for the extension (not specified in the notice).
- Submission confirmation aligned to the response deadline: 2025-06-23T17:00:00+00:00.
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- This is explicitly a "special procurement" and is described only as an extension of a FileMaker maintenance and hosting contract; confirm what response format, forms, and statutory special procurement requirements apply (none are included in the brief).
- No solicitation number, attachments, or resource links are provided; confirm the official submission channel and whether responses are even being accepted from non-incumbents.
- Because the action is described as an extension, pricing is likely expected to align with existing contract rates or an agreed extension schedule; prepare to justify rate continuity and any deltas (CPI, hosting cost changes) if allowed.
- If you are not the incumbent, first confirm the state is open to alternate pricing/offers; otherwise, position pricing as a continuity-focused extension with minimal transition risk.
- If hosting is in-scope and you are primarily a FileMaker support shop, consider a hosting/managed services partner to cover operations and uptime responsibilities (only after confirming the state allows a provider change under the extension).
- If you are primarily a hosting provider, consider a FileMaker specialist partner for platform maintenance and support.
- High likelihood this is intended for the incumbent via special procurement; non-incumbents risk spending bid effort on an opportunity that may not be competitively awarded.
- Scope ambiguity: "maintenance and hosting" is not defined (support hours, SLA, environment, licensing responsibilities, security requirements are unknown).
- No posted date, solicitation number, attachments, or submission instructions are provided in the brief; risk of missing mandatory process steps for OregonBuys/DAS.
- Transition risk (if provider change is permitted): taking over an existing FileMaker hosted environment without full documentation could create service disruption.
- Is this special procurement an incumbent-only extension, or will DAS accept competitive responses from other vendors?
- What is the current FileMaker environment (version, number of solutions, integrations, user counts) and what specifically is included in "maintenance"?
- What hosting model is in place (cloud/on-prem, single-tenant/multi-tenant), and what are the uptime/SLA and backup/DR requirements?
- What is the requested extension term (start/end dates) and are there option periods?
- What are the required submission instructions (portal/email), required forms, and evaluation/approval steps for this special procurement?
- Are there constraints requiring the current hosting provider to remain in place (data residency, architecture, or contractual limitations)?
- Is FileMaker licensing included in the maintenance/hosting contract or handled separately by the state?
Some notices publish limited source detail. Confirm these points before final bid/no-bid decisions.
- Whether this special procurement is open to competitive offers or is intended solely to extend the incumbent contract
- Submission instructions/channel and any mandatory forms or attachments
- Current contract details: incumbent vendor, current rates, and current term/extension length requested
- Detailed scope for "maintenance" and "hosting" (SLA, support hours, environment specifics)
- Period of performance dates for the extension
- Evaluation/award/approval process and criteria for the special procurement
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