Social Security Administration, Office of Acquisition and Grants, 1710 Gwynn Oak Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21207-0696

70 -- ANALYTICAL MODELING PACKAGE SOL NA DUE 081897 POC Madeline Y. Tims Tel: 410-965-9488 The Social Security Administration (SSA) is attempting to identify firms that can provide an analytical modeling package to model its Headquarters' data center. The Headquarters Data Center soon will contain: One (1) -- Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) Skyline-72 (702 millions of instructions per second (MIPS)) and five (5) -- HDS GX- 8824s (390 MIPS each), for a total of 2,652 MIPS with approximately nine (9) terabytes of direct access storage devices (DASD) attached. The analytical modeling package should process the following: (1) Resource Measurement Facility (RMF) and System Management Facility (SMF) data to build the model; (2) support workload balancing; (3) workload growth; (4) logical partition (LPAR) tuning; (5) input/output (I/O) subsystem modeling; (6) memory modeling and; (7) performance problem identification and solution testing. Software maintenance is also required. The six (6) physical HDS machines described above contain over twenty multiple virtual storage (MVS) logical partitions in six (6) separate Job Entry System (JES) complexes. An acceptable modeling package must model the above physical and logical environment as a single entity and display the shared computer processing unit (CPU) and shared DASD effects. The modeling package must have the capability of reporting on the entire data center level as well as the physical and logical systems levels. The responses must clearly state the ability to provide an analytical modeling package capable of satisfying the above stated requirements. THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ONLY. Firms possessing the capability to furnish the above software and software maintenance are invited to submit complete information discussing such capabilities; i.e., descriptive literature/brochures, and, if applicable, GSA Schedules. The information respondents provide shall pertain to this synopsis only. Cross-referencing to material previously submitted will not be acceptable. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the evaluation of the source data received. No cost or pricing data is required or requested. No contract award will be made on the basis of the information solicited or received. This is not a request for proposal and requests for copies of a solicitation will not be honored or acknowledged. Interested parties must respond in writing within 15 calendar days from the date of this publication and refer to AMP/Tims. (0213)

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