U.S. Postal Service, Headquarters Purchasing, Room 4541, 475 L'Enfant Plaza, SW., Washington, DC 20260-6230

D -- ESCON FIBER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM UPGRADE POC Deanna J. Middleton, Purchasing Specialist, 202-268-6035 The U.S. Postal Service is soliciting proposals from IBM, General Signal Networks, and Amdahl to upgrade the ESCON Fiber Management System (EFMS) at the San Mateo Computer Operations Service Center. The system will expand from one that serves 4-128 channel CPUs to 8-128 channel CPUs. The ESCON directors will increase from 6-124 to 10-124 port units. The I/O capacity will serve 18-8 path DASD control units with support for 24-8 units, 192 tape control units similar to STK's Timberline technology, and 32 channel to channel connections used for base sysplex operations. The contractor must be an industry expert on current IBM MVS or OS/390 ESCON technology, coordinate the MVS I/O gens that the project requires, and a MVS mainframe supplier of ESCON Directors. The requirement is for services in upgrade of EFMS including installation, maintenance support, documentation, and some materials. It is anticipated that the solicitation will be issued on or about February 7, 1997 by Internet. Contractors will be notified. No telephone calls. (0030)

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