The Center for Post FTS2000 Procurement (TQ), 7525 Colshire Drive (Stop Z397), McLean, VA 22102-7492

D -- HARDWARE/SOFTWARE RECOMMENDATIONS TO SUPPORT PREPARATION OF COST PROPOSALS FOR THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES (TS) ACQUISITION Contact Contracting Officer, Barbara R. Norsworthy, (703) 610-2805. The Federal government currently satisfies its intercity telecommunications requirements through the Federal Telecommunications System 2000 (FTS2000) contracts. The contracts will expire in December 1998. To provide for telecommunications services to government users in the post-FTS2000 environment, the government intends to release, in the near future, a final Request for Proposals (RFP) for Telecommunications Services (TS) (draft RFP KEF-95-BN-000A). Interested parties should peruse the CBD for future information regarding release of this TS RFP. The government intends to make software to support the preparation of cost proposals available to potential offerors for the Telecommunications Services acquisition. The government will be utilizing the following hardware to hold the Post-FTS2000 traffic and price data, and to cost-evaluate the different Telecommunications Services bids: One Sun Sparc20 with 512 megabytes of RAM and two RAID systems (one with 31 gigabytes and the other with 63 gigabytes of disk space) plus 40 gigabytes of non-RAID SCSI disk drives for the price/traffic database system; and one Sun Sparc2000 with three gigabytes of RAM and 50 gigabytes of SCSI disk space for cost/evaluation. The database system will be ORACLE 7.2 with parallel query, PL SQL and SQL PLUS. The government recommends that offerors for the Telecommunications Services acquisition have at least the following hardware configuration if they intend to use the government-provided software: One Sparc1000 with one gigabyte of RAM and 50 gigabytes of SCSI or RAID disk space, or a combination of SCSI/RAID totaling 50 gigabytes, and 4mm DAT tape reader. The government also recommends ORACLE 7.2 with parallel query, PL SQL and SQL PLUS for the database system. This configuration is based in part on a maximum of 85000 individually-priced Point of Presence (POP) pairs per service. An increase or decrease in the POP pairs might require more or less disk space. Questions concerning this notice may be direct to Barbara Norsworthy, Contracting Officer, on (703) 610-2805. (093)

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