Federal Bureau of Prisons, 320 First Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20534

D -- E-MAIL MONITORING SOFTWARE SOL ADP-98-015 DUE 071098 POC Mr. Pratap Das, Contracting Officer, (202) 616-6150 The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) hereby gives notice of its intent to issue a sole source purchase order to NETPro Computing Inc., 7150 E. Camelback Road, Scottsdale, AZ 85251 to provide a commercially available "Proactive Monitoring System" to the Bureau of Prisons Group Wise E-Mail system, which provides BOP E-Mail to app. 100 Federal Prisons nation-wide. This proactive monitoring system must work with all versions of GroupWise, from Word Perfect Office 4.0a to GroupWise 5.x and run as a NetWare NLM. Must monitor entire GroupWise system proactively, in real time, including primary, secondary and external domains, as well as message, administrative and post office servers. Must monitor message flow through a mail-ping system that works both inside and outside the organization. Must view entire GroupWise System from a single console. Must transmit critical status messages via SNMP to ManageWise or any SNMP-compliant management console. Must dispatch trouble messages instantly via E-Mail, alpha pageror Novell Send command. Must monitor GroupWise on all platforms, including NetWare, NT, VINES, OS/2, PathWorks and LAN Manager. Must eliminate downtime by continually ensuring the health and integrity of post office databases and corresponding mail boxes. It must be adaptable to the network monitoring needs of businesses of all sizes. It must allow administrators to set custom alert thresholds based upon individual systems, including mail route time. It must prevent loss or delay vital messages, ensure optimal productivity and up-time and provide step-by-step procedures for repair and optimization through a comprehensive knowledge base. It must facilitate future problems resolution with custom notes for any object or alert. Must provide mail-route statistical information, identify trends to maximize network performance and efficiency and furnish critical diagnostic help through a knowledge base system. Must assist in planning of GroupWise upgrades and installations, help with ongoing modifications to GroupWise environments and ability to provide immediate telephone technical support, software updates, bug fixes, and new releases of this products. Must continue supporting of the product for future upgrades and changes to the Novell GroupWise system. No solicitation document exists. Prospective interested firms should submit cost and technical data to be evaluated. Interested firms must indicate their ability to satisfy the requirement within 15 days of the notice. Interested firms will be considered only if they are capable of meeting or exceeding the requirements stated herein at a cost efficiently more advantageous than the contractor named. If no response is received within 15 days of this announcement, an award will be made to NETPro Computing Inc. For further information contact Mr. Pratap Das, Contracting Officer, (202) 651-5160. No collect calls will be accepted. (0170)

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