SOURCES SOUGHT
D--D -- Disaster Recovery - Drop Shipment
- Notice Date
- 1/9/2006
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- Attn: Department of Veterans Affairs Austin Automation Center, (00D), 1615 Woodward Street, Austin, Texas 78772
- ZIP Code
- 78772
- Solicitation Number
- 200-42-06
- Response Due
- 1/20/2006
- Archive Date
- 2/19/2006
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Department of Veterans Affairs, Austin Automation Center (AAC) is in a transitional period of expanding its disaster recovery (DR) operations to accommodate additional customer applications at its Philadelphia, Illinois facility. This transition period is estimated to last up to five years. The AAC is interested in identifying sources that can provide an expeditious means of providing temporary DR support for customer applications in the event of a disaster. To this end, we are interested in determining an accelerated process for the purchase, lease, or rental of replacement hardware with expedited shipping to the Philadelphia, Illinois DR location. An example list of equipment is included below. An on-site hardware maintenance contract with 24x7x4 hour response for the duration of the lease, rental, or an annual period for purchased equipment is required. The objective is to have 100% of the attached list of equipment in place at the Philadelphia facility within 72 hours of a declared disaster. To accomplish this DR operation in the most cost effective manner with innovative approaches and capitalizing on industry best practices. A short-term rental or lease of this equipment is preferred over outright purchase. Due to the current DR and/or back-up procedures used by the Government, the makes, models, and configurations of the equipment listed are brand name and the only ones acceptable for delivery. Regardless of the proposed acquisition method, rental, lease, or purchase, all hard disk media, to include hardware maintenance, will be retained by the government at the close of the contract. Likewise, all maintenance services provided under this contract shall incorporate provisions for government retention of hard disk drives. This procurement is event driven and dependent upon the occurrence of a declared disaster. If no disaster occurs within the period of performance of this contract, the list of equipment and the associated maintenance will not be required by the AAC. Server Classification: Large Server Configuration Recommend Use: Heavy Use Applications, Database Servers; Rack Mount: Yes; Rail Kit: Rack Chassis w/Rapid Rails for Dell, HPQ or other Square Hole Racks; CPU: Minimum of Quad CPU system capable of SPEC CINT2000 base rate performance of 60 or higher; Memory: Minimum of 4 GB DDR2 Memory; Cables: Must include all necessary Power, SCSI, Etc Cables (Note: No Y-Cords for Power Supplies); Hard Drives: Minimum 5x146GB Hard Drives 15,000 RPM, ultra-SCSI Hot Swappable storage, Configurable in RAID 1 and RAID 5 Arrays; Primary Controller: PERC4/DC (or Equivalent), 1 Internal and 1 External Channel Host Bus Adapter for EMC SAN Connectivity: N/A; Network Ports: Two 10/100/1000 Ports; Power Supply: Redundant Hot-Swappable; DVD Drive: 24X IDE CD-RW/DVD ROM; Floppy Drive: 1.44MB Floppy Drive ; Hardware Support Services: 7x24x365 - 4hr On-site (NOTE: For as long as equipment is in use); Keep Your Hard Drive: Keep Your Hard Drive, 3 Year; Compatible Operating Systems: All Versions of Windows 2000, 2003 Server (Except Datacenter). Second Server Classification Large Server Configuration: Recommend Use: Heavy Use Applications, Database Servers; Rack Mount: Yes; Rail Kit: Rack Chassis w/Rapid Rails for Dell, HPQ or other Square Hole Racks; CPU*:Minimum of Quad CPU system capable of SPEC CINT2000 base rate performance of 60 or higher; Memory: Minimum of 16 GB DDR2 Memory; Cables: Must include all necessary Power, SCSI, Etc;Cables (Note: No Y-Cords for Power Supplies) Hard Drives: Minimum 5x146GB Hard Drives 15,000 RPM, ultra-SCSI Hot Swappable storage, Configurable in RAID 1 and RAID 5 Arrays; Primary Controller: PERC4/DC (or Equivalent), 1 Internal and 1 External Channel; Host Bus Adapter for EMC SAN Connectivity: Two - LP9802E EMC 2GB 133MHZ PCI-X TO FC HBA's (NOTE: Must be certified and supported by EMC for use with EMC DMX SAN. ?E? Denotes EMC Certified); Network Ports: Two 10/100/1000 Ports; Power Supply: Redundant Hot-Swappable ; DVD Drive: 24X IDE CD-RW/DVD ROM ; Floppy Drive: 1.44MB Floppy Drive ; Hardware Support Services: 7x24x365 - 4hr On-site (NOTE: For as long as equipment is in use); Keep Your Hard Drive: Keep Your Hard Drive, 3 Year; Compatible Operating Systems: All Versions of Windows 2000, 2003 Server (Except Datacenter). It is requested that sufficient documentation, along with open market research pricing be provided to allow this office to evaluate your company's proposed solution to meet the Government's requirements. This is not a request for proposal and there is no solicitation document available at this time. All documentation shall be submitted electronically to kari.cozzens@va.gov or via fax at 512-326-6028 no later than 2pm CST on January 20, 2006.
- Place of Performance
- Address: 1615 Woodward
- Zip Code: 78772
- Country: United States
- Zip Code: 78772
- Record
- SN00963307-W 20060111/060109211807 (fbodaily.com)
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