U. S. Postal Service, Headquarters Purchasing, 475 L'Enfant Plaza West SW, Room 4541, Washington, DC 20260-6238

70 -- DISASTER RECOVERY SERVICES SOL 102590-95-A-0058 DUE 043095 POC Andrew Jernell, Contracting Officer, (202) 268-4172. It is the intention of the U.S.Postal Service to conduct a limited competition for ADP Disaster Recovery Services which will include the following firms: IBM, COMDISCO, SUNGUARD. These services are being procured for the Postal Service's San Mateo and Minneapolis Computer Processing Centers. The contractor will be required to develop a disaster recovery plan for both centers; conduct a continuous 72 hour test once a year of the disaster recovery plan for each facility; provide a hot-site facility with all necessary hardware, software, storage devices, and telecommunication equipment; and provide a cold-site facility with all of the telecommunication equipment. The contractor must possess facilities and equipment at the hot and cold site which is capable of processing 508 Million Instructions Per Minute (MIPS), all hardware and software must be IBM mainframe compatible, must be able to bring up all critical applications within 48 hours after a disaster is declared, must have the capability to handle a widespread regional disaster, must have experience in transitioning from hot-site to cold-site and back to USPS, must have five years of experience in handling the size of the disaster contemplated under this effort, the contractor's organization and personnel must be experienced in the type of equipment, software, and telecommunications stated above. The contract will be three years with two one year options. The RFP will be issued during the week of March 27, 1995. If vendors possess the capabilities which are stated above and are interested in this procurement, the vendor should submit to the USPS a copy of its capability statement. The capability statement must demonstrate that the offeror possesses the resources and capabilities needed to provide the disaster recovery services contemplated for this effort. If the vendor can demonstrate that it possesses the facilities, equipment, and experience needed to perform this effort, it will be provided with a solicitation. The capability statements shall be sent as soon as possible to Andrew Jernell, 475 L'Enfant Plaza SW, Room 4541, Washington DC 20260-6238. NO PHONE CALL INQUIRIES WILL BE TAKEN. In addition, at this time there is no funding available for this effort. It is anticipated that funding will become available by the time that the contract is awarded. Also, the USPS will not be responsible for any bid and proposal cost associated with the prepartion of the vendor's proposal. (0087)

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