Commanding Officer, U.S. Coast Guard Operations Systems Center, 175 Murall Drive, Martinsburg, WV 25401

70 -- HARDWARE UPGRADE FOR THE MARINE SAFETY INFORMATION SYSTEM (MSIS) POC Contact: Contracting Officer: Kathy P. Klein, Ph: (304) 264-2566 The U.S. Coast Guard intends to purchase a RAID7 brand disk suite system to allow for on-line storage expansion of the MSIS system. This system will replace four 496MB, ten 770MB, twenty-one 817MB and sixteen 1.34GB disk drives. MSIS needs at least 24GB of usable on-line storage to accomodate all of the information in the present system and to allow for growth until the current PRIME sytem can be replaced. This RAID7 system upgrade is believed to be the only reasonable and cost-effective solution. PRIME computers, specifically the PRIMOS operating system, writes data to its storage devices in 2080-byte increments, not industry standard 512-byte increments. Because of this, most RAID devices now available do not effectively utilize all of the storage space on each hard disk. Additionally, read-write access in terms of performance is significantly impacted. Further, not all current RAID devices/suites on the market are capable of communicating with the PRIMOS operating system, even using industry-standard SCSI interfaces. RAID7 is the only known system that will interface with the PRIMOS operating system. NEED a couple of sentences to EXPLAIN PRIMOS or whatever. The alternative is procurement of new minicomputers to replace the current PRIME computers. There is no other known short-term solution to allow for on-line storage expansion of the MSIS system. This acquisition is for the following: (1) 1 Rackmount Enclosure, (2) 1 486DX-66 Processor/CPU Controller, (3) 1 Array computer board/P1 Parity/16MB Cache, (4) 1 Dual Host I/F SCSI-2 (10MB/sec), (5) 3 Triple adapter SCSI device Interface/adapter, (6) 1 RAID7 Virtual Storage OS Run-Time License, (7) 1 RAID7 System Performance Monitor, (8) 1 RAID7 Set-up and Configuration Utility, (9) 1 RAID7 System Diagnostic Utility License, (10) 7 3.5'' 4GB Disk Drives. The government requires delivery within 30 days after contract award. Interested firms who can furnish RAID7 brand equipment or equal are invited to submit clear and convincing data substantiating their capability to furnish the entire requirement. This information, including any GSA Schedule Contract, if applicable, and firm pricing information, shall be included in your written response. All responses from responsible sources will be evaluated; however, vendors failing to provide complete information will not be considered. All responses must be in writing to the above address, ATTN: Kathy P. Klein. See Numbered Note 22. (0143)

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