SOURCES SOUGHT
70 -- RFI EMC Authorized Service Providers
- Notice Date
- 8/3/2011
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 811212
— Computer and Office Machine Repair and Maintenance
- Contracting Office
- Social Security Administration, Office of Budget, Finance, and Management, Office of Acquisition and Grants, 1st Floor, Rear Entrance, 7111 Security Blvd., Baltimore, Maryland, 21244
- ZIP Code
- 21244
- Solicitation Number
- SSA-RFI-11-1016
- Archive Date
- 8/25/2011
- Point of Contact
- Brian J. McAllister, Phone: 4109663206, Katie Cooney, Phone: 4109659476
- E-Mail Address
-
Brian.McAllister@ssa.gov, katie.cooney@ssa.gov
(Brian.McAllister@ssa.gov, katie.cooney@ssa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This announcement serves as a Sources Sought Synopsis issued for the purpose of market research in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 10. This Sources Sought is issued solely for information and planning purposes and does not constitute a solicitation nor is this notice for a request for quotations. DO NOT submit a quote or proposal in response to this synopsis. For the purpose of this acquisition, the North American Industry Classification System Code (NAICS) is 811212 and the size standard is $25M. The purpose of this notice is to identify companies capable and qualified to provide premier maintenance of EMC, CICSO, and Brocade data storage equipment. Interested parties shall provide the following information: evidence that they are an authorized EMC service provider. The objective of this Request for Information (RFI) is to obtain the services of an EMC Authorized Service Provider to provide preventive maintenance services for storage equipment, remedial maintenance services for storage equipment, and assistance in the relocation of Government-owned hardware. The Agency's enterprise applications utilize five computer operating systems, IBM's MVS, ZOS (Mainframe), Solaris, HP-UX, VMware, and Microsoft Windows. The vendor shall have the ability to support data storage equipment for all five operating systems. Description of Government-Owned Equipment in need of Maintenance: EMC High Performance Enterprise and Departmental Storage Subsystems - For the Social Security Administration Offices Nationwide. EMC branded CICSO and Brocade Storage Area Networks (SAN), Directors, and Switches EMC/Data Domain Virtual Tape Libraries - including Data Deduplication EMC Software including local and remote replication software, SAN management software, and Fully Automated Storage Tiering Phone-home capability - The ability to detect a failed component or to detect when a component within the Storage Subsystem exceeds certain preset thresholds and alert the storage administrator so that reparative action can be taken. The Agency also configures the Storage Subsystems to contact the subsystems manufacturer automatically when a failure occurs (Open Systems only). Non-disruptive microcode updates or replacements - The ability to update or replace the controller microcode without having to shut down the Storage Subsystem. Equipment Locations: National Computer Center (NCC) 6201 Security Blvd. Baltimore, Maryland 21235 Second Support Center (SSC) 3604 Louis Stephens Drive Durham, North Carolina 27709 Birmingham ROCC (BI) 2001 12th Avenue North 2nd Floor Computer Room Birmingham, Alabama 35285 Chicago ROCC (CH) 600 West Madison Street 3rd Floor Computer Room Chicago, Illinois 60661 Kansas City ROCC (KC) 601 East 12th Street Computer Room 1056 Kansas City, Missouri 64106 New York ROCC (NY) 155-10 Jamaica Avenue Jamaica, New York 11432 Philadelphia ROCC (PH) 2nd Floor Computer Room Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19123 Richmond (San Francisco) ROCC (SF) 1221 Nevin Avenue Richmond, California 94801 Wilkes-Barre WBDOC (WB) 1150 East Mountain Drive Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 18702 SSA-OH-DDS 400 E. Campus View Rd. Columbus, OH 43235 SSA-Raleigh-DDS 3301 Terminal Dr. Raleigh, NC 27604 TEXAS-DARS-DDS 6101 E. Oltorf St. Austin, TX 78741 SSA-TN-DDS 200 Athens Way Plaza Tower Nashville, TN 37228 SSA-IL-DDS 100 N. 1st Street 4th Floor Computer Room Springfield, IL 62702 SSA-GA-DDS 1551 Juliette Road Stone Mountain, GA 30083 SSA-NY-DDS Room 1025 One Commerce Plaza 99 Washington Ave. Albany, NY 12210-2822 Interested parties shall provide a Capabilities Statement and any information regarding the availability of their services on existing contract vehicles for which SSA may utilize. Such vehicles to include, but not limited to GSA, SEWP, other agency IDIQ contracts. Interested parties shall provide company profile, including the name of the business, complete contact information, business size and socioeconomic category, such as: Service Disable Veteran Owned Small Business, Veteran Owned Small Business, Women-Owned Small Business, HUBZone Small Business, 8(a) Small Business, etc. Interested parties should respond no later than Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 12:00 p.m., Eastern Time. Vendors should reference SSA-RFI-11-1016 in their response. This Sources Sought Notice is to assist the SSA in identifying an appropriate acquisition strategy only. No solicitation package is available at this time. This is not a request for proposal or quote and the Government does not intend to pay for information received. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the data received. No contract award will be made on the basis of responses received; however, this information will be used in SSA's determination of procurement approach. No Faxed responses. Requests for copies of a solicitation will not be honored or acknowledged. No solicitation is being issued at this time. Please submit electronic responses only to the contract specialist identified herein. NOTE: There is a size limit for email; no submission shall be greater than 5 MB. Original Point of Contact Brian McAllister, Contract Specialist, Email: Brian.McAllister@ssa.gov
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Nationwide, United States
- Record
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