SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Wide Area Network - Cloud B
- 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-2012-353-WANB
- Archive Date
- 4/25/2012
- Point of Contact
- Amy Sheib, Phone: 3014966546, Karen Miller, Phone: 301-496-6546
- E-Mail Address
-
ap370t@nih.gov, kr33@nih.gov
(ap370t@nih.gov, kr33@nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Wide Area Network Connectivity - Cloud B SOURCES SOUGHT - NIH-LM-2012-353-WANB 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 Wide Area Network Connectivity at the 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 how the business meets the applicable size standard designated for this project. Services provided by the Contractor would be: Wide Area Network Connectivity - Cloud B The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has a requirement for a new wide area network (WAN) to interconnect three (3) HHS Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) site locations. This new WAN will serve as the backbone transport for HHS TIC on-net traffic. Listed below are the specific physical, operational, and technical ISP requirements for each of the three HHS TIC Internet connection sites. Specific HHS TIC Wide Area Network Connectivity Requirements - Cloud B 1. Each designated HHS TIC site location requires a 10Gbps bandwidth connection into the vendor network service. 2. Service to be set up as point to multi-point. 3. The proposed vendor solution must support a minimum 99.995% availability metric. 4. The proposed vendor solution must support telecommunications service priority (TSP) to ensure rapid service restoration. 5. The proposed vendor solution average packet transit time through the vendor network is not to exceed 70ms end-to-end. 6. HHS intent is to manage traffic in and out of vendor cloud. Therefore, the proposed vendor solution must support packet traffic tagging. Provide the maximum number of unique tags supported. 7. Service must not impede IPv4 and IPv6 traffic through the vendor cloud. 8. Vendor service turn up expediency will be considered as a weighted value HHS WAN Site Locations - Cloud B Indian Health Service (IHS), 1011 Indian School Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104 Center for Disease Control (CDC), 1600 Clifton Rd NE, Building 21, Atlanta, GA 30329 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - ACC4 Datacenter, 44480 Hastings Drive, Ashburn, VA 20147 Service Options Bandwidth Capacity Upgrade Optional bandwidth capacity for future upgrade in multiple increments of 10Gbps in addition to above, including adherence to requirements numbering 2 through 8 listed 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-mail) 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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