SPECIAL NOTICE
70 -- Unisys Dorado mainframe hardware upgrade
- Notice Date
- 12/30/2010
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 334111
— Electronic Computer Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), National Office Procurement (OS:A:P), 6009 Oxon Hill Road, Suite 500, Oxon Hill, Maryland, 20745
- ZIP Code
- 20745
- Solicitation Number
- TIRNO08D00003068
- Archive Date
- 1/15/2011
- Point of Contact
- Harry Haraseyko, Phone: 2022836983
- E-Mail Address
-
harry.haraseyko@irs.gov
(harry.haraseyko@irs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a notice of IRS’s intent to award a delivery order containing a Brand Name description under an existing contract. It is anticipated that the following equipment will be purchased. Two five cell Unisys Dorado 780 mainframe computer systems (hardware only). Each system will include: 1DOR781-4Dorado 780 with 4 IPs, one partition, 1GW memory 1DOR7800408-UPGAdds 2nd cell (4 IPs, 1GW) to a DOR781-4/DOR791-4 1DOR7800812-UPGAdds 3rd cell (4 IPs, 1GW) to a 2 cell Dorado 780/790 1DOR7801216-UPGAdds 4th cell (4 IPs, 1GW) to a 3 cell Dorado 780/790 1DOR7801620-UPGAdds 5th cell (4 IPs, 1GW) to a 4 cell Dorado 780/790 2DOR3224-OPSDorado Operations Server Model 4 36CBL171-50Cable: 50m Fiber OM2 2/4Gb 50/125 LC-LC 48SBN1001-P64I/O:Dorado SBCON channel host bus adapter (HBA) 48CBL143-50CABLE:SBCON 50M 9ETH10022-PCXIO: Dual port copper Gigabit Ethernet NICs 16FCH1042-PCX, 4GB fibre channel card for Dorado 700 & 4000 10DOR385-EXTDorado PCI-X Channel Module 4DOR1-WSWRKST:HMP WORKSTATION 1ETH10021-PCXIO: Dual port fiber Gigabit Ethernet NICs 1DOR700-CAB2nd cabinet to house cells 5 through 8 1RCK4019422-AXPRCK:Without Sides + Power Strips 1CPH40-FDRClearPath 40U Front Door 6DOR700-SIOI/O: Dorado 700 Series PCIOPE w/ storage u-code 4DOR700-CIOI/O: Dorado 700 Series PCIOPE w/ comms u-code Brand Name Justification The use of a Brand name description is essential to the Government’s requirements, thereby precluding consideration of a product manufactured by another company. The IRS today has 87 tax processing applications which can run only on Unisys mainframes. The IRS also has 2,260 utility and supporting application programs that were developed to run in a Unisys environment. To function, both the tax processing and supporting applications require a Unisys mainframe operating system, utility, and other support software from Unisys and from four Independent software vendors (ISVs). Sixty five brand name products were and are needed, and have been licensed from Unisys, and from ISVs through licenses managed by Unisys, over many years. Without the continued licensing of these products, our 87 tax processing applications would not run as currently developed. FAR 6.302-1(b)(4) authorizes acquisition of specific brand names “When the Agency head has determined in accordance with the agency’s standardization program that only specified makes and models of technical equipment and parts will satisfy the agency’s needs for additional units or replacement items, and only one source is available.” IRS’s current AS-Built Architecture document, lists the 87 tax processing applications mentioned above as running on UNISYS mainframe computers. Therefore the brand name products supporting these applications can be considered de facto standards. The hardware upgrade will constitute “replacement items” within the definition and scope of FAR 6.302-1(b)(4). The end of hardware support for the current UNISYS Dorado 280 mainframe, which will occur on 12/31/2011, would leave the IRS without the guaranteed response time and guaranteed parts replacement that are required for a critical mainframe. The end of hardware support for the current UNISYS Dorado 280 mainframe, which will occur on 12/31/2011, would leave the IRS without the guaranteed response time and guaranteed parts replacement that are required for a critical mainframe. All responsible sources may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation, which shall be considered by the agency.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/TREAS/IRS/NOPAP/TIRNO08D00003068/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: 11720 PLAZA AMERICA DR STE 300, RESTON, Virginia, 20190-4757, United States
- Zip Code: 20190-4757
- Zip Code: 20190-4757
- Record
- SN02352532-W 20110101/101230233729-d0a0ebe52f6e67e9f2b48a9994af3400 (fbodaily.com)
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