Social Security Administration

Buyer is conducting market research to identify vendors capable of providing hardware for the Application Delivery Controller (ADC) infrastructure refresh and redesign. The solution should include commercial (COTS) products to support reliable application delivery control, security, operations, management, and support. Buyer requires capabilities including traffic inspection, intelligent DNS resolution, SSL offloading, malicious traffic blocking, geographic availability, redundancy, and fault tolerance.

• 4/4/2025 - Solicitation Published Date
• 4/14/2025 - Proposal Due Date
• 4/29/2025 - Inactive Date

• Provide hardware for ADC infrastructure refresh and redesign
• Implement application traffic inspection and direction capabilities
• Enable intelligent DNS resolution functionalities
• Deliver application acceleration using SSL offloading
• Implement malicious traffic blocking mechanisms
• Ensure geographic availability for load balancing
• Provide system redundancy and fault tolerance
• Support mission-critical application delivery control
• Deploy security features for application protection
• Offer operational management and support tools