SOLICITATION NOTICE
70 -- Servers and hardware
- Notice Date
- 5/30/2008
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- Contracting Office
- Department of State, FedBid.com -- for Department of State procurements only., FedBid.com, 1701 North Fort Myer Dr, Rosslyn, VA 22219
- ZIP Code
- 22219
- Solicitation Number
- 1045847749
- Response Due
- 6/4/2008
- Archive Date
- 12/1/2008
- Point of Contact
- Name: Harry Lundy, Title: Contract Specialist, Phone: 7038756014, Fax:
- E-Mail Address
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lundyhe@state.gov;
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Bids are being solicited under solicitation number 1045847749. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; bids are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. The solicitation is issued as an invitation for bids (IFB), unless otherwise indicated herein. If your company can provide the product/services listed on the solicitation and comply with all of the solicitation instructions, please respond to this notice. To view the specifications, please go to www.FedBid.com and reference Buy No. 69770. GSA Schedule Bids Only: Sellers bidding on this opportunity MUST have the items requested on an existing GSA Schedule. The Schedule must either be in the Seller's name or the Seller must be able to document its ability to act as an agent of a partner's Schedule. Sellers may offer Open Market items only in accordance with the approved Terms and Conditions of their respective GSA Schedule AND upon approval from the soliciting Contracting Officer. Information regarding GSA Schedules can be found at www.GSA.gov. This requirement is unrestricted and only qualified sellers may submit bids. The solicitation pricing on www.FedBid.com will start on the date this solicitation is posted and will end on 2008-06-04 13:30:00.0 Eastern Time or as otherwise displayed at www.FedBid.com. FOB Destination shall be Arlington, VA 22209 The Department of State requires the following items, Purchase Description Determined by Line Item, to the following: LI 001, BRAND NAME OR EQUAL. SELLERS MUST SPECIFY EXACT MANUFACTURER AND CONFIGURATION THEY ARE OFFERING TO BE CONSIDERED FOR AWARD. Dell Blade Server Enclosure, No Blades, M1000E, PowerEdge (per specifications below) Base Unit p/n: 223-3244 (or other manufacturer's exact equivalent, please see below specifications): Service:Mission Critical Package: 4-Hour 7x24 On-Site Service with Emergency Dispatch, Initial Year (985-3800)Service:Dell Hardware Limited Warranty Plus On Site Service Extended Year(s) (989-0728)Service:Dell Hardware Limited Warranty Plus On Site Service Initial Year (989-0747)Service:Mission Critical Package: 4-Hour 7x24 On-Site Service with Emergency Dispatch, 2 Year Extended (984-7982)Service:ProSupport for IT: 7x24 HW / SW Tech Support and Assistance for Certified IT Staff, 3 Year (984-8172)Service:MISSION CRITICAL PACKAGE: Enhanced Services, 3 Year (989-0788)Service:Thank you choosing Dell ProSupport. For tech support, visit http://support.dell.com/ProSupport or call 1-800-945-33 (989-3439)Installation:Onsite INSTALLATION: PowerEdge Hardware Installation only (989-0689)Misc:Redundant Power Supplies (6x2360W), High Efficiency M1000E Blade Chassis (430-2623)Redundant Chassis Management Controller, PowerEdge M1000E (311-7787)No Operating System Media Kit (420-1908)Users Guide, PowerEdge M1000-Series Blade Servers (310-9693)Dell OpenManage CD Kit for PowerEdge M1000E Blade Server Chassis (310-9694)Dell OpenManage CD Kit for PowerEdge M600 Blade Server (330-0244)Single GbE Pass-Through ModuleI/O Bay 1, 3 or 5, M1000E (310-9703)Redundant GbE Pass-Through Modules, IO Bays 1+2, 3+4 or 5+6, M1000E (310-9704)No I/O Modules, (I/O Bay Filler Panels, Qty 2) M1000E Blade Server Chassis (310-9711)Documentation, SAS6/IR,English (310-9838)Integrated Pack and Multipack Box Label for PowerEdge M600 (310-9952)DVD-ROM, 8x, External USB Black (313-4219)Altiris Deploymnt Solution forup to 16 PowerEdge M1000e Series Blade Srvrs (313-6157)Avocent Integrated KVM Analog Switch Module, PowerEdge M1000E Chassis (430-2628)PDU, 24A, 208V, Three Phase Power, PowerEdge M1000E Chassis (3, 8FT Cords) (310-9691) - Quantity 2Power Cords, QTY3, 2FT C19/C20 for M1000E Server Blade Chassis (330-0146) - Quantity 2Blade Blanking Panel for PowerEdge M1000E Blade Server Chassis (310-9709) - Quantity 7, 1, EA; LI 002, BRAND NAME OR EQUAL. SELLERS MUST SPECIFY EXACT MANUFACTURER AND CONFIGURATION THEY ARE OFFERING TO BE CONSIDERED FOR AWARD. Quad Core Intel Xeon ProcessorX5460, 2x6MB Cache, 3.16GHz 1333MHz FSB, M600 (as per below specifications)Base Unit p/n: 223-3244 (or other manufacturer's exact equivalent, please see specifications below): Processor:Quad Core Intel Xeon 2nd Processor, X5460, 2x6MB Cache 3.16GHz, 1333MHz FSB, M600 (311-7876)Memory:4GB 667MHz (4x1GB), Dual Ranked DIMMs (311-7884)Hard Drive:146G,10K,SAS3G,2.5,HP (341-4732)Operating System:No Operating System (420-6320)Mouse:Onboard Broadcom 5708 Dual Port GbE NIC, TCP/IP Offload (430-2695)NIC:Broadcom 5708 Dual Port GbE I/O Card for PE M1000E-Series Blade Servers (430-2698)TBU:Keep Your Hard Drive, 5 Year (980-3634)Documentation Diskette:No Documentation (310-1972)Additional Storage Products:146G,10K,SAS3G,2.5,HP (341-4732)Factory Installed Software:No Operating System Media Kit (420-1908)FeatureSAS6/IR, RAID 1, 2 HDD attached to SAS6/IR ControllerDaughtercard (341-5695)Service:Mission Critical Package: 4-Hour 7x24 On-Site Service with Emergency Dispatch, 4 Year Extended (981-4524)Service:ProSupport for IT: 7x24 HW / SW Tech Support and Assistance for Certified IT Staff, 5 Year (981-4714)Service:MISSION CRITICAL PACKAGE: Enhanced Services, 5 Year (989-0677)Service:Thank you choosing Dell ProSupport. For tech support, visit http://support.dell.com/ProSupport or call 1-800-945-33 (989-3439)Service:Mission Critical Package: 4-Hour 7x24 On-Site Service with Emergency Dispatch, Initial Year (985-3220)Service:Dell Hardware Limited Warranty Plus On Site Service Extended Year(s) (989-0598)Service:Dell Hardware Limited Warranty Plus On Site Service Initial Year (989-0617)Installation:On-Site Installation Declined (900-9997)Misc:No OpenManage CD Kit (310-9837), 14, EA; LI 003, EXACT MATCH ONLY. NO SUBSTITUTIONS, ALTERNATES, OR EQUALS. Dell EMC DAE2 2GB Disk Array Enclosure (as per below specifications) Base Unit p/n: 222-3099 (please see below specifications): Service:Type 2 Contract - Same Day 4-Hour 7x24 Parts and Labor Onsite Response 2Year Extended (980-7302)Service:Type 2 Contract - Same Day 4-Hour 7x24 Parts and Labor Onsite Response Initial Year (981-2510)Service:Premium Enterprise Support-Gol d-Premium Services,3 Years (981-3302)Service:Dell Hardware Warranty Plus Onsite Service Initial Year (985-6829)Service:Dell Hardware Warranty Plus Onsite Service Extended Year(s) (985-6847)Installation:Installation of up to 2 components (i.e. DAE, Host, Switch, Storage Device, Array SW, Cluster) w/Coincidental Event (987-2539)300GB 15K RPM Fibre Channel 3.5-in HotPlug Hard Drive (341-5085) - Quantity 15Keep Your Hard Drive, 3 Years (960-3732), 1, EA; LI 004, EXACT MATCH ONLY. NO SUBSTITUTIONS, ALTERNATES, OR EQUALS. 1U KMM Console with Touchpad Keyboard and 17 LCD, Rapid Rails, Customer Install p/n: 310-9962, 1, EA; LI 005, EXACT MATCH ONLY. NO SUBSTITUTIONS, ALTERNATES, OR EQUALS. T2- Standard Maintenance 1 per year for 1 year, APOSp/n: 980-0957, 1, EA; LI 006, BRAND NAME OR EQUAL. SELLERS MUST SPECIFY EXACT MANUFACTURER AND CONFIGURATION THEY ARE OFFERING TO BE CONSIDERED FOR AWARD. Blade Server Enclosure, No Blades, M1000E, PowerEdge (as per below specifications)Base Unit p/n: 223-3244 (or other manufacturer's exact equivalent, please see specifications below): Service:Mission Critical Package: 4-Hour 7x24 On-Site Service with Emergency Dispatch, 4 Year Extended (981-5204)Service:ProSupport for IT: 7x24 HW / SW Tech Support and Assistance for Certified IT Staff, 5 Year (981-5394)Service:Dell Hardware Limited Warranty Plus On Site Service Extended Year(s) (989-0728)Service:Dell Hardware Limited Warranty Plus On Site Service Initial Year (989-0747)Service:Mission Critical Package: 4-Hour 7x24 On-Site Service with Emergency Dispatch, Initial Year (985-3800)Service:MISSION CRITICAL PACKAGE: Enhanced Services, 5 Year (989-0807)Service:Thank you choosing Dell ProSupport. For tech support, visit http://support.dell.com/ProSupport or call 1-800-945-33 (989-3439)Installation:Onsite INSTALLATION: PowerEdge Hardware Installation only (989-0689)Misc:Redundant Power Supplies (6x2360W), High Efficiency M1000E Blade Chassis (430-2623)Redundant Chassis Management Controller, PowerEdge M1000E (311-7787)No Operating System Media Kit (420-1908)Dell OpenManage CD Kit for PowerEdge M1000E Blade Server Chassis (310-9694)Users Guide, PowerEdge M1000-Series Blade Servers (310-9693)Dell OpenManage CD Kit for PowerEdge M600 Blade Server (330-0244)Single GbE Pass-Through ModuleI/O Bay 1, 3 or 5, M1000E (310-9703)Redundant GbE Pass-Through Modules, IO Bays 1+2, 3+4 or 5+6, M1000E (310-9704)No I/O Modules, (I/O Bay Filler Panels, Qty 2) M1000E Blade Server Chassis (310-9711)Documentation, SAS6/IR,English (310-9838)Integrated Pack and Multipack Box Label for PowerEdge M600 (310-9952)DVD-ROM, 8x, External USB Black (313-4219)Altiris Deploymnt Solution forup to 16 PowerEdge M1000e Series Blade Srvrs (313-6157)Avocent Integrated KVM Analog Switch Module, PowerEdge M1000E Chassis (430-2628)PDU, 24A, 208V, Three Phase Power, PowerEdge M1000E Chassis (3, 8FT Cords) (310-9691) - Quantity 2Power Cords, QTY3, 2FT C19/C20 for M1000E Server Blade Chassis (330-0146) - Quantity 2Blade Blanking Panel for PowerEdge M1000E Blade Server Chassis (310-9709) - Quantity 2, 1, EA; LI 007, BRAND NAME OR EQUAL. SELLERS MUST SPECIFY EXACT MANUFACTURER AND CONFIGURATION THEY ARE OFFERING TO BE CONSIDERED FOR AWARD. Quad Core Intel Xeon Processor X5460, 2x6MB Cache, 3.16GHz 1333MHz FSB. M600 (as per below specifications)Base Unit p/n: 223-4256 (or other manufacturer's exact equivalent, please see specifications below):Processor:Quad Core Intel Xeon 2nd Processor, X5460, 2x6MB Cache 3.16GHz, 1333MHz FSB, M600 (311-7876)Memory:4GB 667MHz (4x1GB), Dual Ranked DIMMs (311-7884)Hard Drive:146G,10K,SAS3G,2.5,HP (341-4732)Operating System:No Operating System (420-6320)Mouse:Onboard Broadcom 5708 Dual Port GbE NIC, TCP/IP Offload (430-2695)NIC:Broadcom 5708 Dual Port GbE I/O Card for PE M1000E-Series Blade Servers (430-2698)TBU:Keep Your Hard Drive, 3 Year (983-6402)Documentation Diskette:No Documentation (310-1972)Additional Storage Products:146G,10K,SAS3G,2.5,HP (341-4732)Factory Installed Software:No Operating System Media Kit (420-1908)FeatureSAS6/IR, RAID 1, 2 HDD attached to SAS6/IR ControllerDaughtercard (341-5695)Service:Thank you choosing Dell ProSupport. For tech support, visit http://support.dell.com/ProSupport or call 1-800-945-33 (989-3439)Service:Mission Critical Package: 4-Hour 7x24 On-Site Service with Emergency Dispatch, 2 Year Extended (984-7302)Service:ProSupport for IT: 7x24 HW / SW Tech Support and Assistance for Certified IT Staff, 3 Year (984-7492)Service:Mission Critical Package: 4-Hour 7x24 On-Site Service with Emergency Dispatch, Initial Year (985-3220)Service:Dell Hardware Limited Warranty Plus On Site Service Extended Year(s) (989-0598)Service:Dell Hardware Limited Warranty Plus On Site Service Initial Year (989-0617)Service:MISSION CRITICAL PACKAGE: Enhanced Services, 3 Year (989-0658)Installation:On-Site Installation Declined (900-9997)Misc:No OpenManage CD Kit (310-9837), 9, EA; For this solicitation, Department of State intends to conduct an online competitive reverse auction to be facilitated by the third-party reverse auction provider, FedBid, Inc. FedBid has developed an online, anonymous, browser based application to conduct the reverse auction. A Seller may submit a series of pricing bids, which descend in price during the specified period of time for the aforementioned reverse auction. Department of State is taking this action in an effort to improve both seller access and awareness of requests and the agency's ability to gather multiple, completed, real-time bids. All responsible Sellers that respond to this solicitation MUST submit the pricing portion of their bid using the online exchange located at www.FedBid.com. There is no cost to register, review procurement data or make a bid on www.FedBid.com. Sellers that are not currently registered to use www.FedBid.com should proceed to www.FedBid.com to complete their free registration. Sellers that require special considerations or assistance may contact the FedBid Helpdesk at 877-9FEDBID (877-933-3243) or via email at clientservices@fedbid.com. Sellers may not artificially manipulate the price of a transaction on www.FedBid.com by any means. It is unacceptable to place bad faith bids, to use decoys in the www.FedBid.com process or to collude with the intent or effect of hampering the competitive www.FedBid.com process. Should Sellers require additional clarification, contact FedBid at 877-9FEDBID (877-933-3243) or clientservices@fedbid.com. Use of FedBid: Buyers and Sellers agree to conduct this transaction through FedBid in compliance with the FedBid Terms of Use. Buyers and Sellers understand that FedBid ranks all bids by price; however, pursuant to applicable acquisition regulations and/or departmental guidelines, Buyers may use criteria other than price to evaluate offers. Accordingly, please note that, unless otherwise specified herein below, to the extent required by applicable regulations and/or guidelines, award will be made to the responsible Seller whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Buyer on the basis of price, technical capability, delivery, and past performance. Agencies may require registration with the Central Contractor Registry (CCR) prior to receipt of order. Information can be found at www.ccr.gov FOB DESTINATION CONUS. New equipment ONLY, NO remanufactured products, and NO "gray market" BIDS MUST BE VALID FOR 30 DAYS. NO EXCEPTIONS OR QUALIFICATIONS. ALL BOXES AND CONTAINERS MUST BE CLEARLY MARKED WITH THE REQUISITION REFERENCE NUMBER FOUND IN BLOCK 4, OF 347 ORDER FOR SUPPLIERS AND SERVICES. SHIPPING DOCUMENTS WILL CLEARLY LIST EACH ITEM AND THE QUANTITY SHIPPED AS CONTAINED WITHIN BOXES OR CONTAINERS. IF SINGLE LINE ITEMS HAVE BEEN ASSEMBLED INTO MAJOR COMPONENT, SHIPPING DOCUMENTS MUST ACCOUNT FOR THE INDIVIDUAL ITEMS SHIPPED WITHIN THE MAJOR COMPONENT. A) The offeror shall provide the government, with its offer submission, written verification from the GSA schedule holder that an agreement exists that validates the offeror's right to offer the GSA schedule items on behalf of the GSA schedule holder, if other than the offeror; and, B) By proactively complying with this offer term, sellers accept that the government will make award to the GSA schedule holder only, as the sole awardee. Further, the sole awardee and only the sole awardee shall submit its invoice to the government and receive payment from the government. (a) The provider of information technology shall certify applications are fully functional and operate correctly as intended on systems using the Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC). This includes Internet Explorer 7 configured to operate on Windows XP and Vista (in Protected Mode on Vista). For the Windows XP settings, see http://csrc.nist.gov/itsec/guidance_WinXP.html and for the Windows Vista settings, see: http://csrc.nist.gov/itsec/guidance_vista.html.(b) The standard installation, operation, maintenance, update, and/or patching of software shall not alter the configuration settings from the approved FDCC configuration. The information technology should also use the Windows Installer Service for installation to the default program files directory and should be able to silently install and uninstall.(c) Applications designed for normal end users shall run in the standard user context without elevated system administration privileges.(d) The Department of State currently intends to use Vista in Protected Mode in the future when all devices at all worldwide locations have sufficient capacity to permit an upgrade from the XP operating system. ** TO HAVE A BID CONSIDERED FOR AWARD, ALL VENDORS MUST PROVIDE MANUFACTURER, PART # AND EXTENDED SPECIFICATIONS OF THE EXACT MODEL BEING PROPOSED FOR ALL LINE ITEMS. NO EXCEPTIONS. FAILURE TO PROVIDE THIS INFORMATION WILL RESULT IN A 'NON RESPONSIVE' BID AND REMOVAL FROM AWARD CONSIDERATION The Contractor and its employees shall exercise the utmost discretion in regard to all matters relating to their duties and functions. They shall not communicate to any person any information known to them by reason of their performance of services under this contract which has not been made public, except in the necessary performance of their duties or upon written authorization of the Contracting Officer. All documents and records (including photographs) generated during the performance of work under this contract shall be for the sole use and become the exclusive property of the U.S Government. Furthermore, no article, book, pamphlet, email, recording, broadcast, speech television appearance, film or photograph concerning any aspect of work performed under this contract shall be published or disseminated through any media without the prior written authorization of the Contracting Officer. These obligations do no cease upon the expiration or termination of this contract. The Contractor shall include the substance of this provision in all contracts of employment and in all subcontracts hereunder. DOS A/LM/AQM Memorandum dated 04/23/08: GSA schedule orders may include "open market" items, i.e., items not on the awardee's list of GSA schedule items, only in compliance with FAR 8.402(f). Offerors should verify in writing which items are listed on their GSA schedule contracts and which items are "open market" items. For an offer to qualify as an offer based on a GSA schedule contract, the value of "open market" items included in the offer may not exceed the applicable micro-purchase threshold as defined in FAR 2.101. The Office of Acquisition Management (A/LM/AQM), Department of State (DoS), is processing this acquisition at the request of the CA/CST/TI. This Justification and Approval (J&A) on a brand name only basis is for the use of Dell EMC DAE2 2Gb Disk Array Enclosure. The use of a brand name description is essential to the Governments requirements, for Department of State infrastructure connectivity requirements, thereby precluding consideration of the products of another company.CA/CST/II requires this additional SAN shelf to provide capacity for a potential growth of 40% of applicants. Per the manufacturer, the DAE2 (2-gigabit disk-array enclosure) is a highly available, high-performance, high-capacity storage system that uses a Fiber Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) as its interconnect interface. An enclosure connects to another DAE2 or a storage processor, and is managed by storage-system software in RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disk) configurations. The enclosure is only 3U (5.25 inches) high, but can include 15 hard disk drives. Its modular, scalable design provides additional disk storage as your needs increase. The DAE2 can support up to fifteen 3.5-inch, Fiber Channel disk modules. It uses the Fiber Channel interface to connect disk modules together. Simple serial cabling provides easy scalability. You can interconnect as many as eight DAE2s to Fiber Channel loops (sometimes called busses) to form a large disk storage system. The number of loops depends on the capabilities of your storage processor; highly available configurations require at least two loops, other configurations use a single loop. You can place the disk enclosures in the same cabinet, or in one or more separate cabinets.The 41 USC 253(c)(1), and FAR 6.302-1 are cited at the statutory authority.As this is a brand name only justification, no one contractors unique qualifications are cited as the basis for this justification. Rather, the products identified by brand name herein have been determined to be the only items that meet the Departments requirements as a key component of the Departments networking system.The Dell EMC DAE2 2Gb Disk Array Enclosure is required as the EDV program is currently housed and processed on DELL equipment. The requested DELL Disk Drives will be an upgrade to the existing equipment and is the only product that the DELL vendor will support.The Dell EMC DAE2 2Gb Disk Array Enclosure has undergone test and assessment and has received final approval from the Department of State IT Configuration Control Board.The requirement will be competed as the IT community responds to price requests on FedBid.
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- Address: Arlington, VA 22209
- Zip Code: 22209
- Zip Code: 22209
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