ARMY SMALL COMPUTING PROGRAM CONTENT FILTERING TOOLS BPA

Federal Supply Schedule Contract Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPA) reduce contracting and open market costs such as: search for sources, the development of technical documents, solicitations, and the evaluation of bids and offers.
This BPA will further decrease costs, reduce paperwork, and save time by eliminating the need for repetitive, individual purchases from the schedule contract. The end result is to create a purchasing mechanism for the Government that works better and costs less. SMS was awarded a BPA by the Army.

Contract Number: W91QUZ-06-A-006

Period of Performance: August 2006 through August 2011
Order Types: Firm-Fixed Price
Government Users: United States Army
Functional Areas: As a Prime contractor, SMS provides web content filtering tools from Mcafee Inc., and Bluecoat Inc., to provide

Products and Services Offered:

Content Filtering Tools from McAfee, Inc.:

SMS has partnered with McAfee, Inc. and is proud to offer the Smarfilter product line as a trusted content filtering tool. McAfee solutions are designed to proactively secure systems and networks from known and as yet undiscovered threats worldwide to minimize service disruptions, prevent network attacks, and protect sensitive data.
SmartFilter enables organizations to understand, filter, and monitor Internet use, while providing effective control over outbound web access and protection against the web-based threats that are likely to be encountered, today and tomorrow. Using a combination of real-time reputation scoring and category filtering, McAfee SmartFilter proactively and reliably detects and enables administrators to block spyware, phishing, malware, and other ubiquitous security threats in today's Web 2.0 environment.

Content Filtering Tools from Bluecoat, Inc.:

SMS has partnered with Bluecoat to provide a comprehensive family of content filtering products including the ProxySG appliance, and Bluecoat Webfilter Software.
The Blue Coat Full Proxy Edition of ProxySG appliances are part of the Application Delivery Network (ADN) infrastructure that provides complete application visibility, acceleration and security. To support the Application Delivery Network, ProxySG delivers a scalable proxy platform architecture to secure Web communications and accelerate the delivery of business applications. ProxySG enables flexible policy controls over content, users, applications and protocols.
Blue Coat WebFilter protects user productivity, blocks malware downloads and Web threats, and enables compliance. WebFilter is continuously updated by the WebPulse community watch cloud defense that detects hidden malware and provides reputation and Web content analysis. WebFilter is 100% user driven for relevance creating an unmatched real-time Web content rating service. WebPulse uses Dynamic Link Analysis (DLA) to check popular Web sites for attack injections and search engine results for bait pages, both leading to Web threats via dynamic links. WebPulse provides cloud intelligence to ProxySG Web gateways, and to ProxyClient and K9 Web Protection remote clients. WebFilter is the next generation of Web filtering, created by combining URL filtering and anti-malware technologies together into a collaborative cloud defense architecture.