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70 -- UPGRADE UNITREE SOFTWARE AND SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE SOL 97-5610-1153 DUE 050597 POC Grace S. Oakeley, (303) 236-5900 X406, MS 204C Concerns having the ability to furnish the services described herein are requested to give written notification (including telephone number for a point of contact) to the procuring office above within forty-five calendar days from the date of the synopsis. Provide upgrade to existing UNITREE software and software maintenance for one (1) years which shall include the following specifications: 1) The existing 5 Terabyte license shall be upgraded to a 10 Terabyte license; 2) The upgraded license shall retain all the specifications (other than storage size limitations) of the original license which are: a. Shall be compatible with a Silicon Graphics Challenge XL computer system running the IRIX 6.2 operating system; b. Shall be FDDI, Ethernet, and TCP/IP compatible; c. Shall manage storage space as a hierarchy, at the top of which is magnetic disk. Secondary storage will be 3480/3490E/D-3 magnetic tape; d. Shall migrate files from the cache magnetic disk to the secondary storage under user defined parameters. After files are moved, they may be deleted from the cache. File migration and purging shall both occur automatically. Software shall support a configurable trashcan; e. Shall allow separation of data and control messages to allow data to flow along the most direct high-performance physical path from server to client and from client to server, while control information can flow along a slower path; f. Shall comply with the IEEE Mass Storage Reference Model. Shall use socket interface for communications. Shall support ANSI standard label capabilities for tape; g. Shall have no fixed upper limit to the number of files that can be managed by the software. Shall provide file management capabilities for a minimum of 10.0 terabytes of data expandable to an unlimited volume of data that can be stored in the system. Shall have no limit to the size of an individual file or to the number of volumes that can be concatenated to store a file; h. Shall allow functions to be distributed across many nodes in a network. Shall allow the STK 4400 to be used to manage local disk as well as the normal storage hierarchy associated with the system; i. Shall support the STK ACS 4400 using the Timberline 3490E and the Redwood D-3 tape transports; j. Shall allow access to the ACS 4400 through standard UNIX functions, NFS and TCP/IP. No modifications shall be required to FTP and NFS running on the end user's system; k. Shall provide a mechanism to migrate data in multiple copies. Shall maintain a "shadow" copy of the directory structure on a separate magnetic disk. Every transaction affecting the directory structure must be done as an atomic update; l. Shall provide basic security and report generation functions necessary to manage and operate the system. Software maintenance shall include phone support for resolving Unitree software problems, including possibly the delivery of software patches to fix identified problems; and delivery of new versions of Unitree provided software as Unitree makes them available to their customers. Based on the information available at this time, and in accordance with 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1), implemented by FAR 6.302-1, the Government considers the item specified as a sole source from Unitree Software, Inc., Dublin, California, and proposes to negotiate a contract with that firm on that basis. However, should additional sources be identified, they will be considered. Firms who feel that they can furnish the required item/services or its functional equivalent (based upon the criteria specified herein) are invited to submit in writing an affirmative response to this announcement. An affirmative response would include literature, brochures and such other materials which correspond to the required items stated herein. This information will be evaluated and used to determine if competitive opportunities exist. Since no solicitation document exists, requests for such documents without accompanying information will be considered non-responsive to this request without further consideration. This notice may represent theGovernment's only official notice of this procurement. See Note 22 (0079)

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