Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt, Division of Procurement, 200 Third Street, Room 207, Parkersburg WV 26101-5312

70 -- SOFTWARE, UTILITIES AND MAINTENANCE POC Point of Contact, Sandy J. George, 304/480-7661, Contracting Officer, Wayne Jeffers, 304/480-6529 WEB: Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt,, http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/oa/oaprocr.htm. E-MAIL: Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt,, procurement@bpd.treas.gov. Subject to final approval, the Bureau of the Public Debt intends to award a sole source contract to BMC Software Inc. of Sugarland, 6901 Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20817, to acquire license to the following proprietary BMC DB2 software products: C+/Modify and Recovery Manager/DB2, plus maintenance, new releases, and upgrades for a system life through September 30, 2001. We will consider comparable products which can be shown to meet the following requirements: All products must be capable of operating on an IBM 9672-R35 CMOS or compatible mainframe system with OS/390, IMS/ESA, VTAM, JES2, CICS, and CA-ACF2. Alternatives to C+/Modify must meet the following functional requirements: 1) allow for selective deleting of the syscopy information, 2) allow synchronization of the ICF catalog and the syscopy tablespace for maintaining information on only those image copies that are available for recovery, 3) have the capability to ensure that all tablespaces are recoverable, and 4) provide audit capability todetermine the number of logs used since the last image copy and the number of days since processed. Alternatives to Recovery Manager for DB2 must meet the following functional requirements: 1) 100% compatible and interface with Public Debt's current BMC back-up and recovery software utilities which include Copy Plus, Check Plus, Recover Plus, R+/Change Accum, R+/Resource Maximizer and Patrol DB-Log Manager, 2) capability to predefine recovery groups by referential integrity relationships, plan or package dependencies, disk volumes, and name patterns. Automatically track predefined groups and generate recovery JCL as needed, 3) capability to generate the most optimal backup/recovery JCL by tracking the image copies and change accum groups that are stacked; and, to generate the recovered JCL accordingly so jobs are not waiting for cartridges, 4) allow for volume recovery that does not require DB2 to be shut down, 5) track all tablespaces on each volume to reduce the time needed to determine what was on a volume if it becomes unavailable, 6) interface with image Copy Plus and Check Plus to allow image copies, check data, and check index to be done in the same job, and 7) eliminate the manual process of setting up and maintaining the recovery jobs in advance. All affirmative responses must be in writing, must be received within 15 days after publication of this notice, and must be accompanied by clear and convincing evidence that they will meet the functional requirements outlined above. No solicitation document is available. A request for documentation will not be considered an affirmative response. If no affirmation written response is received, within 15 days after publication of this notice, to the effect that comparable items are available, and that it is more advantageous to the Government than obtaining these items from BMC, we will proceed with a sole-source award. Posted 07/27/99 (W-SN359402). (0208)

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