Department of Veterans Affairs 662/90C, 4150 Clement St., San Francisco, CA 94121

70 -- SOLE SOURCE ADPE NOTICE OF INTENT SOL RFP 662-74-98 DUE 090198 POC Maria Graciano 415-750-2066; FAX 415-750-2170 VA Medical Center (VAMC), San Francisco, California intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 6.302 for a commercial item: Sun Enterprise 3500 Computer system which includes the following accessories/components. HPC3500-C64-2, Server Base package tower enclosure, 1 SunCD 32, 2 Power/Clg Mod, 2 CPU/Mem Boards, (4) 336-MHz/4-MB UltraSPARC Mod, Solaris Server License, Sun HPC Software license for a 8-processor LSF and RTE server, (1 EA); 2602A CPU/Memory Board; two empty CPU slots, two empty memory banks (2 EA); 2560A, 336-MHz UltraSPARC MODULE WITH 4 MB External Cache (4 EA); 7022A, 256-MB Memory expansion, 8 x 32-MB SIMMs, (8 EA); 2612A, 7 EXXOO SBus I/O Board (1 EA); 954A 8 PWR Supply/Cooling Module, 300 W, E3456 (1 EA); 8689A, Second Peripheral Power Supply, 195 W, (1 EA); 2652A FC-AL Interface Board, two GBIC Modules, one two-meter FC-AL cable (1 EA); 6731A FC-100 FC-AL GBIC Module (2 EA); 6709A FC-AL hot-swap 9.1-GB, 7200 rpm, 1.6 inch disk drive (4 EA); SG-XTAP4MM-0 31A Sun StorEdge FlexiPack with 72-144 GB 4mm DDS-3 Autoloader (1 EA); X7110A 14 TX1, Cables Doc. (1 EA); X7103A 17 inch SVGA Entry Monitor, MR (1 EA); X3540A Type 5 Country kit; UNIX (1 EA); SOLS 2.6 US English Server Media Solaris 2.6 (1 EA); WSCC4.2-SP-S 1 Workshop C/C++ 4.2 for SPARC media, 1 RTU (1 EA); WCC-LIC SunSpectrum (1 EA); Annual Silver Software enchanced support includes unlimited phone support, etc. (1 EA); WSCC4.2DOCS 20 Workshop C/C++ 4.2 documentation set (1 EA); PWS3.0-SP-S1 Performance Workshop FFortran v3.0 for SPARC, Slim kit, 1 RTU (1 EA); PWF-LIC SunSpectrum Annual Silver Software enhanced support includes unlimited phone support, etc. (1 EA); SL-FST1-1500-2, Veritas Foundation Suite, Tier 2, License only No. Media/Doc (1 EA); DS-FST1-1500-2 Veritas Foundation Suite Tier 2 Direct Assist Support (1 EA); MD-FST1-1500-0 Veritas Foundation Suite One Media/Doc Kit (1 EA); SL-ENS1-1500-0 Veritas NetBackup (NBU) Netbackup server license. for UNIX Sun Enterprise NetBackup Lic. (1 EA); DS-NBS1-1500-0 Veritas Netbackup (NBU) Netbackup Server Lic. for UNIX Direct Assist Suppot for Solaris (1 EA); MD-NBS1-1500-0 Veritas Netbackup (NBU) Netbackup server Lic. for UNIX- One Media/Doc. Kit for Solaris (16) (1 EA); SU2200XLNET Smart-UPS 2200 Extended Run w/PowerChute for Windows, NTA, Novell, SNMP Agents (1 EA); AP9004 PowerChute Plus Software for UNIX/XENIX (1 EA); TC-VMG1-1500-0 Volume Manager Open Enrollment Class per student (3 days) ( 1 EA); TC-FSS1-1500-0 File System Open Enrollment Class per student (1 day) (1 EA); ZAPS Startup services (server startup, array startup, volume manager startup, file system startup) (1 JOB). Interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement or submit proposals. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. However, all proposals received within fifteen days (thirty days if award is issued under an existing basic ordering agreement) after date of publication of this synopsis will be considered by the Government. A determinaiton by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based on responses tothis notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. VAMCSF intends to negotiate with Acclaim Technology, Inc., 55 South Market Street, Suite 1500 San Jose, California 95113. The Contracting Officer for this requirement is Ms. Graciano. All requests for information and commmunication via FAX at 415-750-2170, please reference solicitation number 662-74-98. ***** Posted 08/07/98 (W-SN234179). (0219)

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