NASA, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Procurement Office, Marshall Space Flight Center, AL 35812

70 -- HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE SOL 8-W-5-10-05711 POC Contact Glynda H. Meeks, GP24M/Contract Specialist, 205-544-0422, or Jane Maples, GP24L/Contracting Officer This notice constitutes a Request for Quotation (RFQ) for the following items -- Item 1: Qty 1 ea - Pioneer 500-Platter CD-ROM Jukebox or equal meeting the following specifications: (1) 500-platter capacity, (2) Four quad speed (or faster) ''read'' drives, ISO9660, High Sierra, Rock Ridge, Photo CD, (3) SCSI-2 interface, (4) Transparent network access, (5) Transfer rate: )600 KB/s sustained, or better, (6) 8-12 second disc change time, or better, (7) Sun OS 4.1.3 and Solaris 2.4 compatibility, (8) Local and Network File System (NFS) support -- Item 2: Qty 1 ea - Tracer HyperROM file management software or equal for Item 1 per the following specifications: (1) Shall support the CD-ROM jukebox device provided by Item 1, (2) Sun OS 4.1.3 and Solaris 2.4 compatibility - Unix file system compatibility at the system call level, (3) Local and NFS support, (4) Ability to add platters to file system as more CDs are received, (5) Automatic, transparent, on-demand platter changing on jukebox, (6) Recovery tools for system administration, (7) Ability to read platters within the jukebox, (8) File system from 1.5 to 2 Terabytes, or larger, able to transparently span CD disk surfaces, magnetic disks, and multiple CD jukeboxes - File system shall be transparent to users and be of form standard to Unix file systems - Applications and software see a ''traditional'' Unix file system, (9) CD to magnetic disk caching, prefetching, and scheduling algorithms, (10) Shall be compatible at system call level with file management software that drives an existing Magneto-optical jukebox (NKK 56 model #RJ-5330E with internal RICOH drives model #RO-5030EII:JB -- Item 3: Qty 1 ea -- Tracer Jukebox management software or equal for NKK 56 platter magneto-optical jukebox with internal RICOH drives - (1) Shall support the following magneto-optical jukebox device: (a) NKK 56-cartridge unit jukebox, (b) two internal 5.25 inch RICOH Corporation magneto-optical drives, (c) Disk library unit is model #RJ-5330E, (d) Disk drive unit is model #RO-5030E II:JB, (e) SCSI interface, (f) Erasable cartridge storage, (g) 1024 byte/sector (650 Mb), (2) Su OS 4.1.3 and Solaris 2.4 compatibility - Unix file system compatibilty at the system call level, (3) Local and NFS support, (4) Ability to add existing platters and files to file system, (5) Automatic, transparent, on-demand platter changing on jukebox, (6) Recovery tools for system administration, (7) Ability to read and write M/O platters within the jukebox, (8) File system from 1.5 to 2 Terabytes, or larger, able to span M/O disk surfaces, magnetic disks, and multiple jukeboxes - File system shall be transparent to users and be of form standard to Unix file systems - Applications and software see a ''traditional'' Unix file system, (9) Optical to magnetic disk caching, prefetching, and scheduling algorithms -- Item 4: Qty 1 ea - 1 year software maintenance including telephone support and upgrades -- Delivery to MSFC (FOB Destination) is required within 30 days -- This notice serves as the only solicitation; quotes are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued -- This procurement is being conducted under the Simplified Acquisition Threshold (SAT) portion of the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act (FASA) -- If other than the brand name identified is quoted, then the quoter shall indicate the manufacturer, brand, and model/part number quoted and provide a description in sufficient detail to show that the product quoted meets the brand name identified -- If the end product(s) quoted is other than domestic end product(s) as defined in the clause entitled ''Buy American Act -- Supplies,'' the quoter shall so state and shall list the country of origin -- The quoter shall state in their quote their size status for this procurement as well as whether they are minority or woman-owned -- The SIC code and the size standard for this procurement are 3572 and 1000, respectively -- The quoter shall identify place of performance in their quote -- Questions regarding this acquisition must be submitted in writing -- Transmission by facsimile to 205-544-9081 or by Internet e-mail to glynda.meeks@msfc.nasa.gov is acceptable -- Quotations (including Representations and Certifications that may be obtained via the internet at ''http://procure.msfc.nasa.gov/proc_ref.html'' or at ''ftp://procure.msfc.nasa.gov/reps_certs/sats/'') are due 20 days after publication of this notice in the Commerce Business Daily (CBD) to the address specified above to the attention of Glynda Meeks/GP24M -- Selecton and award will be made on an aggregate basis to the lowest priced, technically acceptable quoter -- Technical acceptability will be determined by information submitted by the quoter providing a description in sufficient detail to show that the product quoted meets the Government's requirement -- The period of time expected for the Contracting Officer to solicit/evaluate vendor quotes and issue the purchase order will be approximately 35 days from publication of this notice in the CBD -- This procurement is a total small business set-aside -- This solicitation and any related documents to this procurement will be available over the Internet -- These documents will be in ASCII format and reside on a World-Wide Web (WWW) server, which may be accessed using client browsers, such as, MOSAIC -- The WWW address, or URL, of the MSFC Procurement home page is: ''http://procure.msfc.nasa.gov''.(0269)

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