Acquisitions Management Operations Branch, NIAID, 6700-B Rockledge Drive, Room 1130, Bethesda, MD 20892-7605

70 -- IT STORAGE SYSTEM -- POTENTIAL SOURCES SOUGHT DUE 032700 POC Karin E. Eddy, Contracting Officer -- (301)496-3878 E-MAIL: Send e-mail to Contracting Officer, ke5s@nih.gov. The Office of Technology and Information Systems, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH) is planning to invest in new storage technology to support the business needs of the NIAID. The mass storage systems will be used to store and provide user access to a wide variety of applications and files serving clinical, biomedical research, grants management, and administrative users. File sizes range to multiple gigabytes. Therefore, the NIAID is seeking sources capable of providing the following technical capabilities in a mass storage system: Usable 2.0 TB installed storage expandable to 6.0 TB or more capacity over the nest 3 years; Native support of UFS, EFS, NTFS, FAT32, FAT16, MacOS HFS+; Directly interface with at least 8 facilities within a 10km geographic area over government-provided fiber optic connections and remote service to at least two continental US sites over government-provided telecommunications facilities; Interface fully with Microsoft WindowsNT, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows 9x, Apple Macintosh MacOS, Apple Macintosh OS X Server, Linux, Sun Solaris, SGI IRIX; RAID and integrated, high-speed tape backup/restore solution supporting listed operating systems, plus Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL server, Sybase, and Oracle; User controlled management system for configuration, maintenance, security, backup, and accounting; Fault tolerance capabilities such as mirroring. Any system hardware/software and user controlled management system must be currently in production and installed at least one customer location. Vendor responses/capability statements should include a complete technical description of their system that meets NIAID's requirements. Vendors should specifically describe RAID levels supported, compatibility with required platforms, reliability and mean time between failures, the user controlled management system, capacity and expandability, system configuration, space and environmental requirements, electrical power and floor loading requirements. Maintenance features such as automated trouble reporting, warranty, and OEM support should also be described in detail. In addition vendors should provide a point of contact to arrange for government staff to visit an in service system. Vendors are also asked to advise whether the product is available only from the manufacturer or through resellers. Interested parties please submit a capability statement in sufficient detail as to allow for proper evaluation of resources and related experience, including references for past performance. Capability statements should be addressed to Karin E. Eddy, Contracting Officer, Acquisitions Management and Operations Branch, NIAID, NIH, 6700B Rockledge Drive, Room 1128, MSC 7605, Bethesda, MD 20892-7605. Closing date for this Sources Sought is 45 days from date of publication of this notice. Posted 02/09/00 (W-SN423903). (0040)

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