D -- DISASTER RECOVERY AND DATA REPLICATION

Notice Date

April 5, 2001

Contracting Office

Department of the Treasury, United States Customs Service (USCS), Procurement Division, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Room 4.2-E, Washington, DC, 20229

ZIP Code

20229

Solicitation Number

0173000-01-0375

Response Due

April 13, 2001

Point of Contact

Robert Romano, Contracting Officer, Phone 202/927-0072, Fax 202/927-1812, Email Robert.D.Romano@customs.treas.gov

E-Mail Address

Robert Romano (Robert.D.Romano@customs.treas.gov)

Description

Sources Sought for a combination Disaster Recovery and Data Replication requirement. POC Robert Romano -- robert.d.romano@customs.treas.gov. The United States Custom Service (USCS) is seeking Small Business sources to provide the following requirements: Vendor to provide two seperate facilities (Primary and Secondary) that meet USCS Level III Security requirements (can be obtained fro POC). The Primary facility shall be located no closer than 20 miles and no further than 350 miles from Springfield, VA. This facility shall be ready for USCS use with the computer ready infrastructure (raised floor, air conditioning, chilled water, power, automatic fire detection and suppression systems, and pre-positioned communications facilities). The Secondary facility shall be located outside of 350 miles from Springfield, VA. and not within the same city as the Primary facility. Both the Primary and Secondary facility must be able to provide the capability to replicate 21 terabytes of Hitachi 7700E and 9960 DASD. This consists of Operating System, Production Data, and ShadowImage Data. The timelines of the data is to be as close to the time of incident as possible. All data must be available for use immediately and not more than 24 to 36 hours old. During the 15 minute peak traffic period there are approximately 14.5 million I/Os of which approximately 3.3 million are writes. The USCS currently operates 4 CMOS machines with 8 LPARS and over 3800 MIPS. The machines operate under the IBM Operating System (OS/390) and have access to more than 17 terabytes of Direct Access storage Device (DASD). The USCS also operates a SUN Solaris and AIX UNIX environment with more than 4 terabytes of DASD that is integrated with the mainframe. Most USCS applications are required to be available to the user community on a 24 x 7 basis. This announcement is not a solicitation for a proposal or a guarantee of a contract award. The Government does not intend to pay sources that respond to this announcement. To advise us of your interest and capability to perform this requirement, please respond via e-mail (listed above). Please include you POC name, e-mail address, company name and address, telephone number, and current business size. The appropriate NAIC is 541519 ($18M). Responses are due by 4/13/2001.

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Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010409/DSOL014.HTM (D-095 SN50I4M2)