70 -- COMPAQ COMPUTER STAGING, LOADING, AND IMAGING

Notice Date

December 28, 2000

Contracting Office

Peace Corps, Office of Planning Budget and Finance, Office of Contracts, 1111 20th Street, N.W., Room 4413, Washington, DC, 20526

ZIP Code

20526

Solicitation Number

PCORPS-QWB-Compaq

Response Due

January 10, 2001

Point of Contact

Jean Lamb, Procurement Technician, Phone (202) 692-1626, Fax (202) 692-1621, Email jlamb@peacecorps.gov -- Jean Lamb, Procurement Technician, Phone (202) 692-1626, Fax (202) 692-1621, Email jlamb@peacecorps.gov

E-Mail Address

Jean Lamb (jlamb@peacecorps.gov)

Description

The Peace Corps is conducting market research to determine if this service is being provided routinely. If you are currently providing this service to another agency, or you have provided this service in the past, please list the contract numbers, points of contact and phone numbers for validation. The loading, staging, and imaging are critical elements that must be supported by your past performance documentation. Review the requirement thoroughly and submit questions to me at (202) 692-1625, or e mail qblanchard@peacecorps.gov. Your response is required not later than 10 Jan 2001. Again, this is a draft requirement for market research. Thank you in advance for your support and expeditious response. AWARD WILL BE MADE USING FAR PART 8 PRIORITY REQUIREMENTS. Quentin W. Blanchard Contract Specialist STAGING REQUIREMENTS Introduction The Peace Corps requires a vendor to procure, configure, and ship servers and workstations to sixty-two (62) locations overseas as part of the Agency_s project to upgrade overseas post computer infrastructure. The Peace Corps will order each shipment for equipment separately based on the overseas location. Each order will be sent to one overseas location and the average order will include approximately 25 desktops, six laptops, and one server. The Agency will procure a minimum of 300 workstations this calendar year to be sent to approximately twelve locations overseas. The Agency will provide the first seventeen servers to the vendor and thereafter will include servers in each order. The Agency will procure approximately 1500 workstations and 45 servers over the life of the project depending on available funding during the next two fiscal years. Ordering Requirements The Peace Corps will provide the vendor with the following information for each order no less than SIX (6) weeks before the shipment is required to arrive at its Delivery Location: Country of Delivery Express Mail Address (address to send the Bill of Lading to) Delivery Location Date of Delivery (this is the latest date that the product can be received in country) Number of workstations, laptops, docking stations, and servers Country-Specific Configuration Information including: Domain Name Small Business Server Batch User Import Spreadsheet Voltage settings Language Requirements Time Zone Internet Service Provider Information Paper size Hardware and Software Requirements With each order, the vendor will procure the required hardware and software based on the following specifications for desktops, laptops, docking stations, and servers. The Peace Corps will review and may change the hardware and software requirements annually or in the case of discontinued products. Hardware Server Compaq Proliant ML370 Server [Tower Form Factor] PIII _ 667 Mhz Coppermine CPU/133 Mhz Bus (or current compatible processor available) 512 MB, 133MHz SDRAM [2 DIMMS] Compaq RAID 431 Controller 6 X 9GB 10,000RPM Hot-Swap Hard Drives 20/40 GB DDS4 DAT Drive 40X CD-ROM 1.44 MB Floppy Drive Integrated Management Display Intel 10/100 Pro Integrated NIC Intel 10/100 Pro PCI NIC Redundant Power Supply Module Compaq S710 17_ Monitor (16_ viewable) Workstations Compaq Deskpro EN _ Small Form Factor [Tower] Intel Pentium III 733Mhz/133Mhz (or current compatible processor available) (All workstations within one order should be from the same lot) Intel PIII 733 MHz/133Mhz Bus Intel 815E Chipset 256MB, 133Mhz SDRAM (1 DIMM) 10GB Ultra ATA 66 Hard Drive (7200 RPM) 10X DVD-ROM (requires Audio & No ZIP) 1.44 MB Floppy Disk Drive nVidia TNT2 Pro AGP (with 16MB SDRAM) Integrated Intel audio w/Internal Speaker Embedded Intel PRO/100 NIC Compaq 2-Button Mouse Compaq Easy Access Keyboard Auto-switching Power Supply (If Possible) Compaq S710 17_ Monitor (16_ viewable) Laptops Compaq Armada E500 PIII -- 667 Mhz CPU (or current compatible processor available) 128 MB RAM 8 GB IDE Hard Drive 40X CD-ROM 3.5_ Floppy Drive 10/100 Ethernet _ 56K Modem mini PCI Card 14_ Active Matrix LCD Docking Stations Armada Station EM Intel NIC Compaq S710 17_ Monitor (16_ viewable) Carbon Mouse Carbon Keyboard Software Software Server Microsoft Small Business Server v4.5 . MS Windows NT Server v4.0 _ SP4 . MS Exchange Server v5.5 . MS SQL Server v7.0 . MS Proxy Server v2.0 . MS DHCP Server . MS IIS Server v4.0 . MS Index Server v.?.? . Small Business Server Integrated Console . Microsoft Internet Explorer v5.0 Veritas Backup Exec _ Small Business Server Suite _ v7.3 . Backup Exec Server for Windows NT . Microsoft Exchange Agent . Microsoft SQL Agent . Intelligent Disaster Recovery Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition v7.0 . Symantec System Console . NAV for Server . NAV for Exchange . Live Update . NAV Quarantine PowerChute Plus v.5.2 Workstations MS Windows NT 4.0 (SP 4) Microsoft Winsock Proxy Client Microsoft Small Business Server Client Microsoft Office 2000 Professional . MS Internet Explorer v5.0 . MS Word 2000 . MS Excel 2000 . MS Powerpoint 2000 . MS Access 2000 . MS Publisher 2000 Aladdin Dropstuff / Expander v5.0 (Peace Corps will provide licensing for this application) Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition _ Client v.7.0 Adobe Acrobat Reader v4.0 HP Laserjet 4050TN PCL6 Drivers Laptops MS Windows 2000 (need to test) Microsoft Winsock Proxy Client Microsoft Small Business Server Client Microsoft Office 2000 Professional . MS Internet Explorer v5.0 . MS Word 2000 . MS Excel 2000 . MS Powerpoint 2000 . MS Access 2000 . MS Publisher 2000 Aladdin Dropstuff / Expander v5.0 (Peace Corps will provide licensing for this application) Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition _ Client v.7.0 Adobe Acrobat Reader v4.0 HP Laserjet 4050TN PCL6 Drivers Configuration Requirements After the vendor has procured the required hardware and software for the order, the vendor will configure each desktop, laptop, and server. The Peace Corps will provide the vendor with one pre-configured server, one pre-configured laptop, and one pre-configured desktop to be used as the images for each type of machine. The vendor will use these Peace Corps provided images to configure all equipment. The Peace Corps can provide new images to the vendor between orders as necessary in order to incorporate changes to the configuration. In addition, each order will require country and user specific configuration requirements for the servers, workstations, and laptops after imaging. The following configuration changes will be required: Server Once imaged, the vendor will make the following changes to the server configuration based on information provided by the Peace Corps for the current order. . Domain Name . User Accounts/Associate Users to Workstations . Time Zone . Exchange Internet Domain Name . Internet Service Provider Information . Incorporate all Workstations into Norton Anti-Virus Group Workstations & Laptops Workstations should be set up with the default image and then configured to work within the Small Business Server environment with the following specific changes to the configuration. Country Specific Changes: . Voltage Setting for Power supply (if not auto-switching) . Language Dictionaries/Grammar . Keyboard Layouts . Paper Size Changes . Domain Name . Time Zone User Specific Changes: . Computer Name = Flast (first initial, last name) . User Folder Alias on Desktop . Default Directories set to User folder . U drive Mapped to User folder Reporting Requirements For each order, the vendor will provide a report no later than one week after the shipment date with the following information to the Headquarters office for each piece of equipment of the shipment: Order Number Country Model User Name Serial Number Peace Corps Property Tag Number License Number of operating system The vendor will send ALL ORIGINAL SOFTWARE LICENSES and ALL ORIGINAL INVOICES to the HEADQUARTERS OFFICE no later than one week after the shipment date. The license information should include Microsoft Small Business Server 4.5, Microsoft Small Business Server Client Access Licenses, Microsoft Office Professional 2000 licenses, Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition Licenses, Veritas BackUp Exec 7.0, and Window NT 4.0 Workstation. Shipping Requirements The vendor will pack all configured equipment with associated manuals, accessories, software, drivers, and peripherals in the original packing materials and label each box with the following information: Model Name (i.e. Desktop, Laptop, Server) User Name Serial Number Peace Corps Property Tag Number Address For each order, the vendor will then pack all of the labeled boxes onto pallets and shrink wrap the pallets. The vendor will ship the pallets for each order to the Delivery Location no later than the Date of Delivery as provided by the Peace Corps. The vendor will send via express mail the original Bill of Lading that will include the serial numbers, property numbers, models, prices, the airway bill number and the flight information for the shipment to the Express Mail Address of the Country of Delivery. The vendor will send a copy of the Bill of Lading via express mail to the Headquarters office. The vendor will track the shipment and guarantee timely delivery of the equipment so that it is received at the Delivery Location by the Date of Delivery. The vendor will make any necessary contingency plans and change any flights as necessary to guarantee the shipment to arrive to the Delivery Location by the Date of Delivery. Service Level Agreement Something about what happens if the delivery dates aren_t met__. Add section about having vendor provide tool for re-imaging workstations to restore them to the standard configuration (this tool can be used by the MIS at post for support reasons) Appendix A Current Peace Corps Posts Armenia Bangladesh Belize Benin Bolivia Bulgaria Burkina Faso Cameroon Cape Verde China Cote D'Ivoire Dominican Republic Eastern Caribbean Ecuador Gabon Ghana Guatemala Guinea Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kyrgyz Republic Lesotho Macedonia Madagascar Mali Mauritania Micronesia Moldova Mongolia Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nepal Nicaragua Niger Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Philippines Russia-Moscow Russia-Vladivostok Samoa South Africa Suriname Tanzania Thailand The Gambia Togo Tonga Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine Uzbekistan Vanuatu Zambia Zimbabwe AWARD WILL BE MADE USING FAR PART 8 PRIORITY

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Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010102/70SOL003.HTM (D-363 SN5097W3)