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70 -- NETWORK FILE SERVER SYSTEM. PART 2 OF 2. SOL REF NO. 2258 POC Purchasing Agent, Chris Lewis, (619)553-4465. Contracting Officer, P.A. Brown. Bid Clerk, J.C. Norris, (619)553-4331. Server/Fault Management: Server should include management software that can be integrated into 3rd-party network management software such those offered by Novell, Sun, and HP. Software must provide alerts on server and operating system status and changes in component parameters to allow proactive system management. Some examples of the types of parameters that should be monitored include: auto revision tracking, drive paramenter tracking, array accelerator tracking, network interface card tracking, AC power sensing, thermal tracking, fan operation, dynamic sector tracking, memory error tracking, and drive replacement alerting. Management software must be able to provide both in-band alerts and alerts via numeric pager. Falult Tolerance: System must provide features that allow for continue server operation in the event of a hardware component such as: disk drive or memory error. This should include hot-swappable drives and advanced ECC memory using industry-standard SIMMs. Fault Recovery: System must provide hardware and software that can notify the system's administrator of critical server errors. System should provide a method to track server health logging, corrected error log, critical error log, revision history table. The combination of hardware and software must provide a system to perform: automatic server recovery from an operating system error causing the system to hang; disk recovery to rebuild a hard drive without operator intervention; and automatic reboot process when hardware or software errors are encountered; server failure notification to a predetermined location; memory error recovery; and server recovery notification. Security Features: Power-on password, keyboard password, screen blanking, diskette drive disable and control, disable parallel and serial ports, administrator password, and network server mode. Server Warranty: There must be a provision for three-year on-site warranty for the CPU, including all parts and labor. The warranty must include both failed components and components that have been determined to be in a degregated state through a pre-failure warranty. The pre-failure warranty should cover hard drives, memory, and the systems' CPU. Technical Support: There must be lifetime, toll free technical support center available via the telephone on a 24 hours per day, 7 days a week basis. This is a notice of the Government's intent to place an order under a nonmandatory GSA schedule contract, pursuant to FIRMR 201-39.501.3. The Government has made a determination that the listed Part Number(s) for the Specific Make and Model of the Brand Name Product is/are the only product(s) that will meet the Government minimum requirement. This determination have been documented pursuant to FIRMR 201-39.601-1. However, interested parties are invited to identify their capabilities and include their price and GSA schedule contract number, if applicable. Business entities, other than the company named below, will be considered only if: (1) clear and convincing documentation including technical and pricing information is furnished within 15 days of this synopsis, (2) the proposed equipment and/or services meet the requirements of the Government, and (3) it is advantageous to the Government to consider another responsible offeror. If no affirmative written responses are received within 15 calendar days after publication of this notice to the effect that an acceptable other responsible vendor is available an order will be placed immediately with AmeriData Federal Systems against GS00K94AGS5402 or subsequent contract. If a response is received that meets the requirements, and analysis indicates competitive acquisition would be more advantageous to the Government, a formal solicitation may be issued. No contract award will be made on the basis of information received in response to this notice. This synopsis is a notice of intent to place an order against a GSA nonmadatory scedule contract and should NOT be considered as a request for offers. The Government will NOT pay for information received. A formal solicitation is NOT available. Although this is not a formal solicitation, vendors are on notice that there are no specifications available permitting an ''or equal'' purchase. If there is some question and/or issue with respect to use of Brand Name only requirements, questions must be raised no later than 15 days after this notice appears in the Commerce Business Daily. To the extent outlined above, all responses from responsible sources will be fully considered. As a result of analyzing responses to this synopsis of intent, the contracting officer may determine that (1) a formal solicitation (Request for Proposal or Invitation for Bid) will be issued, (2) it is more advantageous for the Government to place an order under the above cited GSA Scheduled contract, or (3) it is more advantageous to the Government to place an order under another competitor's GSA Schedule Contract, which ever is deemed more advantageous to the Government, ALL factors considered. If a formal solicitation is issued, no additional synopsis will be published. Any such formal solicitation will be issued to the intended schedule vendor and all firms that respond to this synopsis of intent or otherwise request a copy of the solicitation. (0061)

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