SOURCES SOUGHT
70 -- AS400
- Notice Date
- 2/26/2004
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541519
— Other Computer Related Services
- Contracting Office
- Social Security Administration, Deputy Commissioner for Finance, Assessment and Management, Office of Acquisition and Grants, 1710 Gwynn Oak Avenue, Baltimore, MD, 21207-5279
- ZIP Code
- 21207-5279
- Solicitation Number
- SSA-04-AS400-AP
- Response Due
- 3/22/2004
- Archive Date
- 3/23/2004
- Point of Contact
- Amy Pasciak, Contract Specialist, Phone 410-965-9549, Fax 410-966-5982,
- E-Mail Address
-
amy.pasciak@ssa.gov
- Description
- This is a REQUEST FOR INFORMATION. Reference “AS400” when responding to this announcement. The Social Security Administration (SSA) Office of Telecommunication and Systems Operations is attempting to identify vendors that are capable of providing antivirus software and timely signature file updates for the IBM iSeries Computers (herein referred to as AS400). The automated product must provide an enterprise level solution for over sixty (60) AS400 computers throughout the country comprised of various processor and software levels. The Agency is seeking sources that produce a software packages and/or solution that will meet the following requirements: 1. Software must run natively on the IBM AS400 (list models and OS levels supported), 2. Have a simple installation process, 3. Little or no administrative overhead, 4. Little or no system overhead, 5. Intuitive technical documentation, 6. Must detect, report and clean viruses, worms, Trojans, macro and script viruses and other malware, 7. Extensive logging capabilities to include recording viruses detected and removed, failed attempts to retrieve virus signature files and failed nightly scans, 8. Notification of viruses detected via email and pager, 9. A permanent record of virus events must be journaled for security purposes, 10. Timely Technical Support during installation and as required (The product must, at minimum, provide support during the normal business hours, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. EST, Monday through Friday. Response must be no later than the next business day.), 11. Consistent, timely and automatic delivery of the latest virus signature definition files (A new signature file must be available within 24 hours of the discovery of a new virus.), 12. Realtime monitoring of incoming and outgoing files with the ability to exclude selected files and directories, 13. Scheduled scanning of files, 14. Scan within compressed files (such as, but not limited to, ZIP and ARJ), 15. Detect and clean encrypted and polymorphic viruses, 16. Automatic download of virus definition files, 17. Automatic download of software updates and fixes, 18. Integrate with AS400 Job Scheduler (native IBM or third party), 19. Network enabled: the ability to retrieve virus definitions from a Windows file server on the local network, 20. Provide an easy upgrade path (no “forklift” upgrades), 21. Ability to send virus incident data alerts locally and to a central source over an IP network, 22. Must provide a 90-day trial copy of software upon request, 23. Must be scalable and interoperable within the SSA environment, 24. Solution must scale to 100 + AS400 computers, 25, Must have ability to build once and deploy in many diverse AS400 OS and processor level environments, 26. Must provide secure access to database information and provide multiple report views of the database according to SSA security requirements, 27. Must provide multiple views of data (e.g., locally, regionally, nationally, etc.), 28. Must have customizable reporting capability, 29. Must provide data access capabilities that include native database interfaces to all major databases, such as ODBC, MS Access, flat files, MS Excel, dBase, 30. Section 508 Compliant. Interested vendors must be able to provide verifiable proof by submitting information in sufficient detail to demonstrate their ability to meet the Agency’s requirement. Vendors responding should indicate whether their services are available on the GSA Federal Supply Schedules or any other Government Wide Agency Contract (GWAC). This is not a request for proposal and the Government does not intend to pay for information submitted. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the evaluation of the data received. No contract award will be made on the basis of responses received; however, this information will be used in SSA’s assessment of capable sources. Responses to this notice should be submitted electronically within 15 days of this publication. No Faxed responses. Requests for copies of a solicitation will not be honored or acknowledged. NO FORMAL SOLICITATION IS BEING ISSUED AT THIS TIME. ELECTRONIC RESPONSES ONLY, to the POC identified below. All requests for clarification or questions regarding this requirement shall be sent via e-mail.
- Web Link
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Link to FedBizOpps document.
(http://www.eps.gov/spg/SSA/DCFIAM/OAG/SSA-04-AS400-AP/listing.html)
- Record
- SN00532218-F 20040228/040226234008 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
FedBizOpps.gov Link to This Notice
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