SOURCES SOUGHT
70 -- Tivoli Storage Manager Support HSB, DCSS
- Notice Date
- 6/12/2012
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541512
— Computer Systems Design Services
- 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
- NIHLM2012398
- Archive Date
- 6/16/2012
- Point of Contact
- Damian Hurge, Phone: 3018275452
- E-Mail Address
-
hurgeda@mail.nih.gov
(hurgeda@mail.nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Office of the Chief Information Officer, NIH, is seeking capability statements from organizations (NAICS 541512), with experience with providing Tivoli Storage Manager Support. This is not a solicitation announcement. This is a sources sought synopsis only. The purpose of this sources sought synopsis is to gain knowledge of potential qualified sources relative to the NAICS code. Requirements and Tasks: Independently and not as an agent of the Government, the Contractor shall furnish all the necessary services, qualified personnel, material, equipment, and facilities, not otherwise provided by the Government, as needed to perform task assignments at the direction of the COTR in the following Task Areas specified below. The Task Areas listed below are typical of those anticipated; but others, which cannot be foreseen, may arise. 6.1 Task Area - Delivery Order Management 6.1.1 Delivery Order Management Plan The Contractor shall provide the technical and functional activities necessary for the management of this SOW and resulting Delivery Order activities. The Contractor shall employ a technical approach, organizational resources, and management controls to achieve cost, schedule, and performance requirements throughout performance. The Contractor shall prepare a Delivery Order Management Plan describing the overall technical approach, communications plan, organizational resources and management controls to be employed to meet the cost, performance, and schedule requirements throughout execution of this Delivery Order. 6.1.2 Monthly Status Reports The Contractor shall meet with the COTR on a regular basis and provide Monthly Status Reports, including status of individual task assignments. Monthly Status Reports shall include a discussion of overall personnel, financial and other issues, including potential impacts on schedules or project plans and recommended actions. Where relevant, status reports shall discuss these issues for individual task assignments. 6.2 Task Area 2 - Tivoli Storage Manager Consulting Tasks include but are not limited to: • Provide support and planning for TSM upgrade; assist with OS upgrade as needed • Provide guidance in designing the backup environment/configuration to be optimized for the available resources across the two supported locations. • Provide guidance and architecture and detailed design to split the TSM database into multiple databases for improved operation as needed. • Provide support for migration to ‘LAN free backup'. Include requirements document, architecture, detailed design, setup and implementation and support. • Domain/Pool/Management class redesign -evaluate the different backup criteria and remove the unneeded criteria sets, eliminating duplicates and near duplicates, and simplifying the overall management class environment. • Offsite data - evaluate and change the method used to store the offsite data as necessary • Evaluate the growing environment at the Sterling data center and design an appropriate TSM environment to back up the systems at that data center location. • NDMP - assist in setup of NDMP for backup from NetApp devices. • Design and test a disaster/recovery capability to enable the Campus data center TSM data to be easily restored from the Sterling Data Center library • Provide Performance Management and Tuning to insure that the devices and applications under management are optimized across all available component resources. • Provide Capacity Planning Service for storage resources under management. Monitor utilization of these critical resources, reporting actual utilization and trends, and promptly notify Customer of any risks of exceeding defined capacity thresholds. • Assist with capacity expansion plans and trending • Provide advice and assistance in migrating to backup network as well as other TSM technical support issues. • On an as needed and requested basis provide guidance and assistance with the daily management and use of local and offsite TSM facilities • The current SM environment includes: • 2 P520 servers • 2 3584 LTO libraries • TSM version 5.5.2.0 • AIX version 6.1 Information Requested: Sources having the ability to provide the professional services described above shall provide clear and comprehensive information supporting their experience, past performance and pricing. An offeror's response shall not exceed 10 pages, excluding resumes. Any questions can be submitted to Damian Hurge, Contract Specialist, at 301-496-6546. All information received will be considered as part of a competitive acquisition. RESPONSES ARE DUE BY 12PM LOCAL PREVAILING TIME ON JUNE 15, 2012, AND SHALL BE SENT VIA E-MAIL TO: hurgeda@mail.nih.gov. This requirement is being processed for CIT by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), NIH. Point of Contact The Point of Contact for this solicitation is Damian Hurge Place of Performance Address: 10401 Fernwood Road, Bethesda, Maryland Postal Code: 20892 Country: United States This notice is for information and planning purposes only and does not commit the Government to any contractual agreement. This is not a request for proposals. The Government does not intend to award a contract based on responses under this announcement nor otherwise pay for preparing any information sent or the Government's use of the information. Any proprietary information should be so marked. Interested organizations presenting a capability statement in response to this sources sought announcement must identify their size status.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: 10401 Fernwood Rd, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, United States
- Zip Code: 20892
- Zip Code: 20892
- Record
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