SOURCES SOUGHT
70 -- Computer Storage Device
- Notice Date
- 7/30/2014
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 334112
— Computer Storage Device Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Virginia Contracting Activity, Virginia Contracting Activity (ZD50), 200 MacDill Boulevard, Post Office Box 46563, Washington, District of Columbia, 20035-6563
- ZIP Code
- 20035-6563
- Solicitation Number
- 07302014-ComputerStorage
- Archive Date
- 8/30/2014
- Point of Contact
- Michael,
- E-Mail Address
-
michael.worthington@dia.mil
(michael.worthington@dia.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- REQUEST FOR INFORMATION 1. Summary and Background Virginia Contrating Activity (VACA) office of the CIO is currently accepting RFIs to develop, design, deploy and support new information storage architecture and services. The existing architecture is now more than 5 years old and in need of a capital refresh. In order to better serve the war fighter, a replacement is sought to replace its current architecture with one that is more robust, efficient, easily managed and cost effective. The purpose of this Request for Information (RFI) is to solicit RFIs from various candidate organizations, conduct a fair and extensive review based on submission that best represents the IT goals of (VACA) end-users. The VACA and CIO-3C3, supports the war fighter by providing excellence in data services. It maintains and operates multiple data centers and storage systems throughout the world in support of this mission. 2. RFI Guidelines This RFI announcement serves as the RFI of the VACA contractor community pursuant to FAR 15.201(E) "Exchange with industry". Response to this RFI will be assessed to identify and consider best qualified from various sources that best represents the greatest depth and breadth of skills, experiences and knowledge relevant to the agency's mission, IT goals and objectives. This RFI represents the requirements for a possible open competitive process in the future. Vendors' submitting a response to this RFI may suggest the type of contract vehicle (i.e. FFP, IDIQ, FFP-LOE) that they think that would be best suited for this RFI. The government may decide in the future to do a full and open competition or set aside all or part of an anticipated procurement for small businesses, service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses or eligible socially and economically disadvantaged businesses that are certified by the Small Business Administration (SBA) for participation in the SBA's 8(a) Program. The Principal North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) size standard code for this requirement is 334112 Computer Storage Device Manufacturing with a size standard of 1,000 employees. Response will be accepted until August 15, 2014, 5:00PM EST. Vendors' RFI packages received after the stated date and time will not be reviewed and/or considered for this RFI request. Responses received late will be destroyed and not returned. This RFI announcement is not intended to guarantee procurement of the services, and shall not be construed as a commitment by the Government to enter into a contract. The Government is not liable for costs associated with the preparation, submittal of inquiries or responses for this announcement and will not reimburse any firm for costs incurred in responding to this public announcement. Since this is a RFI announcement, no evaluation letters and/or results will be issued to the respondents. All responding to this request must be signed by an official agent or representative of the company submitting the RFI. RFIs will be accepted until 5pm EST August 15, 2014. If the organization submitting a RFI must outsource or contract any work to meet the requirements contained herein, this must be clearly stated in their RFI response. Additionally, all costs included in RFIs must be all-inclusive to include any outsourced or contracted work. Any RFIs which call for outsourcing or contracting work must include a name and description of the organizations being contracted. All costs must be itemized to include an explanation of all fees and costs. 3. Project Goals Primary goals include, but are not limited to: 1) Consolidation of and replacement of present architecture where practicable. The number of DIA devices is currently too large to sustain with shrinking operations personnel. It is therefore necessary that DIA consolidate to as few devices as possible while providing a resilient infrastructure capable of meeting DIA IT needs. 2) Reducing Total Cost of Operations. The final product will need to be as cost effective as possible. 3) Simple and effective disaster recovery. In the event of a loss of any single site, failover to the disaster recovery location SHALL be able to be managed through a GUI interface. This disaster recovery process SHALL take no more than 1 hour and the disaster recovery resources SHALL be automatically maintained as new resources are brought online. 4) Non disruptive upgrades and maintenance. For an operating system or firmware upgrade, there SHALL be no disruption of data services, paths or access. 5) The system SHALL have a single interface through which the administrator can manage all routine system functions. 6) The system SHALL have a single interface though which system administrators can monitor all systems resource. 7) The system SHALL be able to monitor and report on all system faults and performance issues down to the component level both in real time and historical utilization. 8) The system SHALL be able to concurrently handle CIFS and NFS file shares on the same volume 9) It is desirable that the system will have a global name space through which all global data can be easily managed. 10) It is desirable that the system will be capable of redirecting data to the lowest cost system medium automatically and without user impact. 11) The systems SHALL be able to instantaneously provide non-disruptive manual and scheduled snapshots of data for point in time recovery. 12) These snapshots SHALL be capable of providing the ability to restore of individual files and/or complete shares and do so with minimal to no downtime to both minimize storage needs. 13) The storage system SHALL provide the capability to do block level deduplication to reduce bandwidth utilization when doing incremental updates of remote copies. 14) This deduplication should be able to be scheduled and manually enabled. 15) It is desirable to be able to clone and split snapshots creating writable, independent copies of the original share. 16) Installation technicians/engineers SHALL have no less than Top Secret/SCI clearance 17) Field service engineers SHALL have no less than Top Secret/SCI clearance 18) The vendor SHALL provide 4 hour onsite technical support for any maintenance or operational problems. 19) The proposed system SHALL include technology to migrate from existing EMC SAN or NetApp storage in a manner with as little downtime as possible. Final vendor RFIs will be reviewed against each other with value placed on the solution with minimal migration downtime. The vendor should be prepared to demonstrate this migration as part of the engineering review. 20) The vendor SHALL provide technical support access with direct line to US Citizen/English speaking engineers 21) The vendor SHALL provide installation of their proposed system in their RFI. 22) The systems SHALL have simple and effective mechanism to provide thin provisioning to both NAS and SAN storage 23) The system SHALL provide the capability to move a volume within a storage virtual machine from one device to another device at the same or different location and must be non-disruptive for all supported protocols such as NFS, CIFS, FC, FCoE, and iSCSI. 24) The systems SHALL be capable of operations within multi-lateral and bi-lateral systems at the TS/SCI, collateral secret and unclassified Domains (note if secret and unclassified are not required then don't specify them) 25) The system SHALL utilize advanced RAID technology that can survive at least 2 simultaneous disk failures in a single RAID group with no data loss. Capacities configured to meet the requirements of the attached tables shall include said RAID technology. 26) The system SHALL provide flash media and solid state disk capabilities to increase spinning disk performance and provide caching techniques that incorporate data reduction capabilities such as data de-duplication. 27) The system SHALL include HA capabilities and show proven 99.999% uptime. 28) The proposed system and solution SHALL be N+1, with no logical or physical single point of failure 29) The systems SHALL provide both scale-up and scale-out capabilities 30) The proposed systems SHALL have the ability to expand beyond the minimum requirements of the attached tables without replacing the existing systems (storage expansion of proposed systems). 31) The proposed system SHALL have the capability to replicate data to small sites (for instance with less than 20 TBs of data) for cached storage capabilities where users at these remote sites can access files stored locally (pulled on demand from the central systems) but where the site would not cost justify placing a dedicated storage device. 32) The proposed system SHALL have the ability to be integrated into VMWare and by supported by VMware. One factor in the consideration for the overall suitability of the vendor's RFI will be the supportability of the proposed solution to provide storage to VMware virtual servers and support VMware features such as vmotion. These goals and objectives are not listed in order of priority, and the government can remove items from this list, or weigh the relevance of these capabilities at its own discretion-- an inability to provide one or more capabilities does not necessitate exclusion of any vendor. 4. Project Scope The scope of this project SHALL include all design, development, testing and acceptance, engineering, deployment, data migration and training for their proposed storage systems. The vendor must provide training adequate to train all CIO-3C3 staff on the administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, upgrading and maintained of the storage systems. Specifics in terms storage data size, type and I/O requirements are TB 150 - IOPS 8000. 5. Request for Information and Project Timeline Questions related to this RFI should be submitted August 8, 2014 between hours of 12P.M. - 3 P.M. EST to the email address from this RFI. No phone calls or faxes will be accepted. NOTE: Maximum amount of data for sending email 8Mb. Government's response should be available by August 13, 2014 by COB. No evaluations of RFIs will be conducted or formal feedback given to anyone of the RFIs submitted. If additional information or discussions are needed the vendor(s) will be contacted All RFIs in response to this RFI are due no later than 5pm EST August 15, 2014. Send (1) electronic RFI response to Michael.worthington@dodiis.mil and ryan.corcoranluhman@dodiis.mil. Note: Maximum amount of data for sending email 8Mb 6. Budget All RFIs must include proposed costs replace DIA storage infrastructure and to complete the tasks described. 7. Bidders Bidders should provide the following items as part of their RFI for consideration: • Description of experience in planning, deploying and managing large storage infrastructure • Examples of 3 or more large commercial and government deployments in excess of 5 PBs • Testimonials from past clients on past storage infrastructure work • Anticipated resources you will assign to this project (total number, role, title, experience) • A full testing plan • Timeframe for completion of the project • Project management methodology NOTE: Maximum amount of data for any email 8MB 8. RFI Review • Overall RFI suitability: proposed solution(s) must meet the scope and needs included herein and be presented in a clear and organized manner • Organizational Experience: Bidders will be reviewed on their experience as it pertains to the scope of this project • Previous work: Bidders will be reviewed on examples of their work pertaining data storage architecture • Value and cost: Bidders will be reviewed on the cost of their solution(s) based on the work to be performed in accordance with the scope of this project • Technical expertise and experience: Bidders must provide descriptions and documentation of staff technical expertise and experience Note: Since this is a RFI announcement, no evaluation, no evaluation letters, no reviews and/or results will be issued to the respondents.
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