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70 -- CD-R DUPLICATOR SOL NMA201-98-R-0023 DUE 031098 POC Contracting Officer, Linda Grasso, (301) 227-2158, FAX (301) 227-2218/5573 This announcement is amendment 01 to solicitation NMA201-98-R-0023 which was originally published in the Commerce Business Daily 6 February 1998. This amendment is required to answer technical questions concerning the CD-R Duplicator requirements. The synopsis/solicitation remains for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in subpart FAR 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. Question #1: Does the user want to duplicate 20 CD's from one master simultaneously (referred to a 1 to 20) or do they want to duplicate 20 CD's from 20 different masters simultaneously (referred to as 20 to 20)? Answer: The user wants the capability to duplicate from any number of masters between 1 and 20 to any number of CD's between 1 and 20 simultaneously ('x' to 'x'). Question #2: Since RAID comes in many configurations, please be specific about the total usable RAID space required? What RAID levels are required? (0,1,0+1,3,5)? Answer: The total usable disk space required is 6.3 Gbytes. The RAID level required is RAID Level 0 (zero). Question #3: Since there appears to be a requirement to remove certain hard drives, we assume, but would like it clarified that the RAID system must be external to the server. Answer: As mentioned in the original posting, the system should have two complete sets of hard drives. Each set of drives will contain the operating system. This will allow the user to use the system to process two different levels of classified data. The ethernet card will allow the system to be connected to a server, but the system may only serve as a stand-alone system. Question #4: What is an AV rated hard drive? This is not an industry standard that I am aware of. Answer: With the advent of audio, video, CD-R writing and various other applications, the need for an uninterrupted flow of data is required. Various hard drive manufactures have developed hard drives that would perform recalibration on the fly without any interruptions to the data flow. These hard drives are labeled as "AV" drives, (aka "Audio Video" or "multimedia drives"). AV drives are capable of sustaining an uninterrupted flow of large amounts of data. Question #5: If you respond to these questions in CBD, how will we be able to locate the response? Answer: The answers will be posted on the CBD. Proposal due date is hereby extended to 10 March 1998, 3:00 P.M., local time. Facsimile requests are NOT acceptable. All other information publicized in the original synopsis is correct. (0049)

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