SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Trusted Internet Connectivity
- Notice Date
- 4/3/2012
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 517110
— Wired Telecommunications Carriers
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, 6707 Democracy Blvd., Suite 105, Bethesda, Maryland, 20894, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20894
- Solicitation Number
- NIH-LM-2012-351-TIC
- Archive Date
- 4/25/2012
- Point of Contact
- Amy Sheib, Phone: 3014966546, Karen Miller, Phone: 301-496-6546
- E-Mail Address
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ap370t@nih.gov, kr33@nih.gov
(ap370t@nih.gov, kr33@nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Trusted Internet Connectivity SOURCES SOUGHT - NIH-LM-2012-351-TIC PURPOSE: THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION OR A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP). THIS REQUEST IS FOR PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY AND SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT TO ISSUE A SOLICITATION OR ULTIMATELY AWARD A CONTRACT. ANY COST INCURRED AS A RESULT OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT SHALL BE BORNE BY THE INTERESTED PARTY (PROSPECTIVE OFFEROR) AND WILL NOT BE CHARGED TO THE GOVERNMENT FOR REIMBURSEMENT. The National Library of Medicine on behalf of the National Institutes of Health, Center for Information Technology is issuing this sources sought/request for information to provide Trusted Internet Connectivity at the Centers for Information Technology (CIT) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda Maryland, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in Ashburn, Virginia, Center for Disease Control (CDC), in Atlanta Georgia, and Indian Health Service (IHS), in Albuquerque, New Mexico. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS. Once a determination is made regarding the suitability of this requirement for a small business set-aside or an open competition to include both large and small business, a separate Request for Proposals will be issued. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this requirement is 517110. Therefore, the small business size standard for this announcement is 1,500 or fewer employees. Please note that in order to qualify as an eligible small business for purposes of a small business set-aside, at least 50% of the direct labor cost must be in-house. Specifically, FAR 52-219-14 - Limitations on Subcontracting states that at least 50 percent of the cost of contract performance incurred for personnel shall be expended for employees of the concern. Companies are requested to submit a Capability Statement that addresses meets the applicable size standard designated for this project. Services provided by the Contractor would be: Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) Internet Connectivity. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has a requirement to connect three (3) geographically separated locations to the commodity Internet. Listed below are the specific physical, operational, and technical ISP requirements for each of the three HHS TIC Internet connection site locations. Note: Each vendor submitted solution must be proposed for each designated HHS Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) site location. A. Specific HHS TIC Internet Connection Requirements 1. Each designated HHS TIC Internet site location requires a minimum 7Gbps connection to the commodity Internet. 2. The ISP service will must support a minimum 99.995% availability metric. 3. The ISP service average packet transit time through the ISP network is not to exceed 70ms end-to-end. 4. The ISP service must support telecommunications service priority (TSP) to ensure rapid service restoration. 5. The ISP service must support blocking of malicious Denial of Service (DOS) attacks. 6. Each designated HHS TIC Internet site location requires a diverse, dual-entrance path connection to the ISP vendor Internet points-of-presence (PoP). 7. The ISP service shall support Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) dynamic routing between each ISP vendor PoP and designated HHS TIC Internet site location. 8. The ISP service shall support AS-Path filtering, prefix-lists, Multi-Exit Discriminators (MEDs), and community strings to control and customize individual customer BGP requirements. 9. The ISP service shall support Federal Government assigned and InterNIC registered IPv4 network address, autonomous system numbers (ASN), and domain names. 10. The ISP service IP network must extend internationally, using peering agreements with major (Tier 1) global Internet providers. 11. The ISP service will support native IPv6 network addresses and the BGP IPv6 protocol. 12. The ISP service shall announce the full Internet routing table to each site plus a default originate route. 13. The ISP service turn up expediency will be considered as a weighted value. HHS Trusted Internet Connection Site Locations - Internet Connectivity Washington, DC Locations This Washington, DC (WDC) area HHS TIC site location will be geographically separated between the NIH Rockville, MD and FDA Ashburn, VA locations listed below. Therefore, the HHS TIC Internet connectivity will be split between these two locations and engineered to function as a single Internet access point for the WDC TIC location. a. National Institutes of Health (NIH), 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20817 b. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - ACC4 Datacenter, 44480 Hastings Drive, Ashburn, VA 20147 c. Indian Health Service (IHS), 1011 Indian School Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104 d. Center for Disease Control (CDC), 1600 Clifton Rd NE, Building 21, Atlanta, GA 30329 Service Delivery Options Bandwidth Capacity Upgrade Optional bandwidth for future upgrade in multiple increments of 10Gbps in addition to above proposal for both transport connectivity and service port to the commodity Internet, including adherence to requirements numbering 2 through 13 list above. INFORMATION REQUESTED: Your response should demonstrate your ability and related experience. Please submit 1 hard copy & 1 electronic copy of your response to the attention of Amy Sheib, Contracting Officer at the address provided by 1:00 PM Local Time on April 10, 2012. Electronic (e-mails) submittal will also be accepted at ap370t@nih.gov (please format for printing). Generic marketing brochures will not be considered further. This announcement is for information and planning purposes only and shall not be construed as a solicitation or as an obligation on the part of the Government. The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of responses nor otherwise pay for the preparation of any information submitted or the Government's use of such information. Acknowledgment of receipt of responses will not be made, nor will respondents be notified of the Government's evaluation of the information received. However, should such a requirement materialize, no basis for claims against the Government shall arise as a result of a response to this announcement or the Government's use of such information as either part of our evaluation process or in developing specifications for any subsequent requirement. Responses will be held in a confidential manner. Any proprietary information should be so marked. All respondents are asked to indicate the type and size of your business organization, e.g., Large Business, Educational Institution, Small Business, Veteran-Owned Small Business, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, HUBZone Small Business, Small Disadvantaged Business, Women-Owned Business, 8(a). Amy Sheib, Contracting Officer, 6707 Democracy Blvd, Suite 105, Bethesda, MD 20892 Karen Miller, Contracting Officer, 6707 Democracy Blvd, Suite 105, Bethesda, MD 20892 or riggsk@mail.nlm.nih.gov
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