Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), Office of Procurement, Box 6, Washington, DC, 20231

70 -- HIGH SPEED DISK SUBSYSTEM FOR THE PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE SOL 52-PAPT-01004 DUE 120899 POC Gail Strickland, Contract Specialist, Phone (703) 305-8146, Fax (703) 305-5484, Email gail.strickland@uspto.gov -- Joan Hanicak, Contracting Officer, Phone (703) 305-8069, Fax (703) 305-8294, Email WEB: Visit this URL for the latest information about this, http://www.eps.gov/cgi-bin/WebObjects/EPS?ACode=P&;ProjID=52-PAPT-01004 &LocID=251. E-MAIL: Gail Strickland, gail.strickland@uspto.gov. Description: This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6, the test program in FAR Subpart 13.5, and FAR Part 15, as supplemented by the additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. Proposals submitted in response to this solicitation shall reference RFP Number 52-PAPT-0-01004. This RFP incorporates all of the applicable provisions and clauses in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 97-14, as if stated in full text, FAR 52.212-1, as well as the Department of Commerce Agency Level Protest Procedures listed at http://www.uspto.gov//web/offices/ac/comp/proc/protest/html/. A firm fixed price contract will be awarded as a result of this solicitation. The PTO is not interested in a lease type arrangement for any of the equipment to be procured under this requirement. Objective: The Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has a new requirement for a very high speed mass storage subsystem for the Patent Text Search System. Technical/Functional Requirements: The PTO desires to acquire hardware and performance measuring tools that best meets the following requirements. Technical Requirements: The proposed COTS shall be compatible with the PTO Technical Reference Model and Year 2000 compliance. The product must be commercially available at the time of this announcement. PTO seeks to maximize the bandwidth for read access to the Patent Text Search system. The storage subsystem shall have the following characteristics: . Total capacity of at least 250 GB mirrored storage (500 GB raw disk capacity) . Minimum subsystem performance of 8000 input/output operations (I/O's) per second when assuming a cache hit rate of 50%. 10,000 I/O's per second is desirable. . Disk drives no larger than 18 GB for a single physical actuator . Each individual disk component (without mirroring or RAID) must support a workload of at least 50 input/output operations per second in a non cached environment with utilization kept under 30% . Service time for I/O below 8ms for 98% of requests . Service time for I/O below 3ms for 50% of requests . Capacity for at least 4 and no more than 8 fibre channel connections to the storage subsystem from a Hewlett-Packard V-class Unix server . Compatibility with the HP/UX 11.0 operating system . Processors and cache control hardware and software components . Performance monitoring and management hardware and software components . High reliability and hot swap capability Non-Rotating disk solutions (solid-state) that otherwise meet the performance, reliability, and operational requirements may be considered. Data retention during power out should be addressed for all proposed non-rotating disk storage solutions. Performance in the PTO Patent Text Search environment is important. Therefore, compatibility with the current components of the Patent Text Search System is required. The demands on the storage subsystem are driven by 600 users simultaneously submitting search queries against a Dataware BRS text search database. Most of the disk access requests are read requests. All of the queries start by accessing the same file, but with poor locality of reference. In a configuration using a Symmetrix 5700 with RAID-S storage and a 16 GB cache, the cache hit rate for the files to be located on the new storage subsystem was less than 40%. Vendor supplied performance measuring tools are required to provide performance data down to the individual component level for monitoring the storage subsystem in the production environment. The vendor supplied tools must be able to show the disk mapping between the storage subsystem and host path names and device names of the HP/UX 11.0 host. The following on-line and historical performance criteria of the storage subsystem must be measurable with the vendor supplied tools: . Cache effectiveness . I/O size . Number of I/O's per second . Mbytes/sec transferred . Fibre Channel utilization . Disk utilization PTO is most interested in leveraging its investment in the standards and products selected to date. If the product offered is not compatible with the above-described PTO software Technical Reference Model, the offeror must provide written explanation of the incompatibility which will be evaluated accordingly. The PTO Technical Reference Model can be found at http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/cio/trm/trm-01.htm or http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/cio/cio-docs.htm). Evaluation: The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible Offeror whose proposal, conforming to the solicitation, will be the most advantageous and represents the best value to the Government, price and other factors considered. In making the best value determination, PTO will compare the differences in the value of technical/functional and past performance features with differences in cost to the PTO. The PTO shall determine what tradeoff among technical/functional requirements, past performance, and price promises the greatest value to the PTO. The following factors will be used to evaluate offers: (A) Technical and Functional Capability; (B) Past Performance; and, (C) Price. Factor A is more important than Factor B, and together Factors A and B are significantly more important than Factor C. Separately Factor A and B are more important than Factor C. However, Factor C will not be scored but will be evaluated. As proposals became more technically equal, price will become more important. Provided below is the list of evaluation criteria for the written proposals: (A) Technical and Functional Capability: The proposed high speed disk subsystem shall demonstrate the technical capabilities and functional requirements stated above. (B) Past Performance/Experience: Evaluation of past performance shall be based upon information obtained from the contracts/references provided by the offeror, as well as any other information the Government may have or obtains from other sources. (C) Price: The total price shall consist of the following priced contract line items: Item 0001: Delivery and installation of high speed disk subsystem, (Qty 1), Unit Price and Total $________; Item 0002: Option -- Delivery and installation of high speed disk subsystem, (Qty 2), (Option Item -- To be exercised, if at all, within six (6) months after contract award. If the option is exercised, the Government reserves the right to partially exercise this item for 1 or 2 units) Unit Price and Total $_________; Item 0003: Annual maintenance for storage subsystem procured under Item 0001, Unit Price and Total $________; Item 0004: Option -- Annual maintenance for storage subsystems procured under Item 0002, (Option Item -- To be exercised, if at all, within six (6) months after contract award. If the option is exercised, the Government reserves the right to partially exercise this item for maintenance of 1 or 2 units), Unit Price and Total $_______. The first phase consists of the written proposals being evaluated in accordance with the criteria listed in A, B and C above. The Government reserves the right to make an award based upon initial proposals. The Government may elect at a later date to validate the offeror's proposal through testing. However, if the Government does not make an award based upon initial proposals, the Government may proceed to the second phase. After phase one evaluation, the Government may issue multiple purchase orders to conduct hardware testing. The purchase order, if issued, will only be awarded to those offeror's who represent the best opportunity for award after phase one evaluation. The second phase consists of an Operational Capabilities Demonstration (OCD) in which PTO will evaluate those high speed disk subsystem(s) using the Patent Text Search application. The evaluation will measure system performance in the lab environment. Upon completion of the OCD, PTO will re-evaluate those proposals that represent the best value to the Government. The offeror must provide pricing for all items listed above. For purposes of evaluating price, the PTO will evaluate price based on the total cost to the Government. Proposals will be found unacceptable if pricing is not provided for all items or if option item pricing is significantly unbalanced. By including option pricing in the total price evaluation, does not obligate the Government to exercise the Options. The Government reserves the right to exercise all or part of option item 0002 and 0004 shown above. As proposals become more technically equal, price will become more important. As part of the evaluation, Past Performance shall be based on information obtained from the contacts/references with similar agency architecture provided by the Offeror, as well as any other information the Government may have or obtain from other sources. Instructions/Notice to Offerors: Offerors are requested to submit one (1) signed and dated original and four (4) copies of the proposal. Proposals are limited to 20 pages or less in size. The proposal shall be brief and concise and utilize product marketing and technical brochures where applicable, but shall demonstrate the technical and functional capability of the product proposed. The Offeror shall identify at a minimum three contracts or orders where the Offeror's product is currently operational. These examples shall provide a cross section of the product within federal, state, local, or commercial environments. The Offerors shall provide a point of contact, current telephone number and fax number for each reference. These references must be submitted with the Offeror proposal on the due date stated herein. The offeror shall use those references who can verify that your firm has previously provided quality solutions and products in the past. Proposals shall also include a completed copy of the provision at 52.212-3 "Offeror Representation and Certifications Commercial Items." A copy of these representations and certifications may be obtained at http://www.uspto.gov/conops/pto/current.htm or by contacting the person specified below. The contract award will include the clauses cited at FAR 52.212-4 "Contract Terms and Conditions -- Commercial Items" and 52.212-5 "Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders -- Commercial Items." -- Commercial Items as well as FAR clauses 52.217-7 Option for Increased Quantity-Separately Priced Line Item, 52.222-26 Equal Opportunity, 52.222-35 Affirmative Action for Special Disabled and Vietnam Era Veterans, 52.222.36 Affirmative Action for Handicapped Workers, 52-222-37 Employment Reports on Special Disabled Veterans and Veterans of the Vietnam Era, 52.225-3 Buy American Act-Supplies. Deliveries from a resulting contract shall be F.O.B. Destination, within 30 days of award date, to the PTO's, Arlington, VA campus. Proposals shall be delivered to the Patent and Trademark Office, Office of Procurement, 2011 Crystal Drive, Suite 810, Arlington, VA 22202, Attention: Zelma Ross, Contracting Officer, no later than 2:00 PM (EST) on December 08, 1999. All offers shall state "52-PAPT-0-01004" on the outside of the package. The point of contact for information regarding this solicitation is Zelma Ross at 703-305-8441 or Gail Strickland at 703-305-8146. Posted 11/26/99 (D-SN403793). (0330)

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