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70 -- INTEGRATED UPGRADE TO NIST'S IBM SP2 MODEL NO. 9076-303 SOL 52SBNB5C8667 DUE 042595 POC Barbara Camp (301) 975-6339, Ruth Maris The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) intends to procure from IBM an integrated upgrade (furnish and install) to NIST's IBM SP2 model no. 9076-303, consisting of: 1) two (2) base drawers, each replacing two 62mhz nodes with two 66mhz POWER2 nodes; 2) seven (7) non-base drawers, each replacing two 62mhz nodes with two 66mhz POWER2 nodes; 3) six (6) non-base drawers, each with two 66mhz POWER2 nodes and each node with 2.2 gigabyte SCSI-2 fast/wide disks, a high speed switch adapter, and 128 megabytes of memory. These components shall be provided in aggregate (all or none basis). All products shall be warranted new, currently announced and in production. Offer shall include optional hardware and software maintenance for 12 months. This optional hardware maintenance coverage shall be 24 hours x 7 days. This optional maintenance shall be on entire IBM SP2 model 9076-303, inclusive of all associated costs. Also, contractor shall provide a one-year warranty/maintenance on the 12 nodes referenced in above 3. This shall be inclusive of all parts, labor, tools, equipment, and associated expenses. The upgraded SP2 overall shall have a salient characteristic of allowing a user to compile and link a job on the SP2 and submit the job transparently for parallel execution on all the 31 nodes of the SP2, or for serial execution on a single processor node. Offeror's customers shall include ones which have run parallel processing applications on an SP2. Offeror shall have proven experience with maintenance of an SP2 system. IBM Corporation is the only known manufacturer of a sufficiently powerful scalable computer system, currently announced and in production, with nodes which connect to NIST's existing SP2 and connect to NIST's high speed SP2 switches in an AIX environment transparent to the user. (A user must be able to compile and link a job on the SP2 and submit the job transparently to the SP2 for parallel execution, or for serial execution on a single processor node.) Delivery is required within 45 days after award--F.O.B. Destination Gaithersburg, MD. We intend to solicit one source under authority of FAR 6.301-l--Interested offerors may identify their interest and capability to this requirement by submitting a capability statement--the capability statement must provide adequate information for NIST to determine the capability to provide the equipment. Firms must also furnish, as a minimum, a complete listing of items, complete specifications to items capabilities in sufficient detail to permit technical evaluation, and pricing data which indicates that the firm can meet all the requirements. All of the above must be received for the Government to consider whether to open this requirement for competition. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. However, all capability statements received within forty-five (45) days after publication of this synopsis will be considered by the Government--See Numbered Note 22. (0068)

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