SolicitationNo.165-Q-08-002-ITEquipmentandSoftware.doc

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Subject:

Solicitation for IT Equipment and Software

Reference No.:

165-Q-08-002 Date:

February 19, 2008

Dear Sirs, USAID Macedonia is seeking your Quote for the supply of IT Equipment and Software.

Terms and Conditions of the Purchase

1. Funding Source The Funding Source for this purchase is USAID Macedonia.

2.

Product Source Eligibility

Any area or country except the foreign policy restricted countries, namely: Iran, Iraq, Syria, North Korea, Laos, Cuba and Libya are authorized source countries or areas.

3.

Product Description and Quantity

· See enclosed IT Equipment and Software Specifications.

· 220/Volt/50Hz Equipment operating power option is desirable, but 110V is acceptable as well.

4.

Price Presentation

In preparing the Financial Proposal, the bidder is expected to take into account the:

· Cost of the items; and

· Delivery requirements outlined in this document.

The delivery destination for the goods is Airport Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, thus the total delivery price should include:

(a) Freight Charge

(b) Insurance cost

(c) Other eligible expenses 5.

Awards Multiple US Government Purchase Order/Contract awards are expected to be made against this solicitation. The totally requested quantity of each item is the Minimum quantity that may be ordered. In case a complete and competitive quote is received – single award shall be made respectively.

6.

Price Validity

The quote must be expressed in $US and must remain valid until at least April 11, 2008.

7.

Payment

(1) Items accepted. Payment shall be made for items accepted by the Government that have been delivered to the delivery destinations set forth in this contract.

(2) Prompt payment. The Government will make payment in accordance with the Prompt Payment Act (31 U.S.C. 3903) and prompt payment regulations at 5 CFR Part 1315.

(3) Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT). If the Government makes payment by EFT, see 52.212-5(b) for the appropriate EFT clause.

8.

Warranty

A three-year warranty is requested for all computer/network equipment and a one-year warranty for all peripherals, such as printers and scanners.

9.

Selection The quote(s) shall be evaluated on the best value principle on the following bases:

a) Completeness of the quote(s)

b) Technical responsiveness of the offered goods

c) Warranty

d) Total Price 10.

Quotes Submission Quotes must be submitted to Mr. Rade Knezevic, EXO Procurement at rknezevic@usaid.gov on or before COB on 11 March 2008.

If in need of Additional Information

Any question(s) or items clarifications you might have in regard to this RFQ should be e-mailed to rknezevic@usaid.gov, NO later then February 29, 2008.

11.

Late Submission

Quotes received after the deadline will not be considered.

12.

Award Commitment This Request for Quotation is not a commitment that an award of contract will be made. USAID Macedonia will make no payment for cost incurred prior to entering into a contract.

USAID Macedonia reserves the right to reject any or all quotes, award only parts of them, split the requirements and award separate contracts and to negotiate with any source it may consider.

13.

Language

All documentation should be in the English language.

14.

Important Tags

The bidders are requested to submit the EFT data and the DUNS Number prior to being issued a Purchase Order/Contract (the EFT form and DUNS number obtaining guidance are attached to this RFQ).

15.

Information

The winning offeror(s) will be submitting the following information before the issuance of purchase order/contract.

1. DUNS (D&B) Number:

All vendors doing business with US Government are required to register and provide Dun and Bradstreet (D&B) number. Contractors located within the United States can obtain their DUNS number (at no charge) by calling Dun and Bradstreet (D&B) at 1-866-705-5711 or via the internet at http://www.dnb.com. For contractors located outside of the United States, D&B has Information Service offices worldwide. To obtain the location and contact information of the local D&B office, those contractors can also visit http://www.dnb.com. FAR 52.204-6

2. Central Contractor Register: all vendors based in the US and doing business with Federal Government are required to register with the Central Contractor Register (CCR) http://www.ccr.gov/. In order to register in the CCR, a DUNS number is required.

3. Tax Identification Number: all vendors located in the US are required to submit their TIN.

4. US vendors should provide information on their socio economic status such as large business, small business, woman owned business, veteran owned business, HUBZONE business…etc.

You are kindly requested to confirm receipt of this RFQ and to provide information on whether or not you will submit a quotation.

We look forward to future cooperation.

We remain, Sincerely Yours, Rade Knezevic

EXO Procurement Solicitation # 165-Q-08-002

Specifications for IT Equipment and Software

1U rackmount form factor, TYAN Tempest i5000VS Chipset Dual Intel® Xeon® 5300 processor sockets, (LGA 771) SSI CEB v1.04 footprint (12" x 10.5") 6x 240-pin FBDIMM (Fully-Buffered) sockets PCI-E x16 socket (x8 power) XGI® Volari™ Z7 (XG20); PCI interface, (Integrated Graphics) 4x SATA hot-swap drive bays, built-in 650W PFC power supply 1x Intel® i82551QM fast ethernet LAN controller Dual Gigabit MAC (ESB2 embedded) with i82563EB dual-PHY; total of three (3) LAN ports ESB2-E supports (2) IDE devices + (6) SATA ports running up to 3.0Gb/s

Dual Controller Configuration with Automatic Failover/Failback RAID Controllers including the controllers 12x 3.5” x 1” hot swappable hard drive trays: SAS 3Gb/s, SATA II 3Gb/s and 1.5Gb/s -- direct connect in single I/O controller configuration or using the Promise SATA MUX Adapter in dual I/O controller configuration; Staggered physical drive spin-up Supports any mix of SAS 3Gb/s, SATA II 3Gb/s and 1.5Gb/s drives simultaneously in the same system; Direct SATA LED support External I/O Ports (per controller) Dual 4Gb Fibre Channel host ports; One external 3Gb/s SAS x4 ports for JBOD expansion (up to 4 VTrak J-Class JBOD Systems) Mirrored and Shared 512MB predictive data cache (max. to 2GB);

Automatic write cache destaging; 72-hour battery backup for 512MB Command Queue Depth: 512 commands per controller RAID 0, 1, 1E, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60 – Any combination of these RAID levels can exist at the same time Configurable RAID stripe size: 64K, 128K, 256K, 512K and 1MB stripe size per disk Background task priority tuning: adjustment of minimum I/O reserved for server use during all background tasks Hot spares Multiple global or dedicated hot-spare drives with revert options Max Logical Drives per subsystem: 256 in any combination of RAID levels and array types Max Logical Drives per array: 32 logical drives (LUNs); Supports LUN Carving by allowing an array to be divided into multiple logical drives;

RAID level, stripe size, sector size and cache policy can be configured per LUN.

Supports out of order logical drive deletion and re-creation out of order logical drive deletion and re-creation Max LUNs per Target ID: Up to 256 LUN Masking and Mapping Supports up to 128 initiators based on FC WWPN Disk data formats Supports Disk Data Format (DDF) for industry wide standardization and drive roaming between systems Background Activities Media Patrol; Background synchronizing; Foreground initialization; Rebuild; Redundancy Check;

SMART condition polling;OCE (Online Capacity Expansion); RLM (RAID Level Migration); Priority Control, Rate Control and watermarking per BGA in Disk and NVRAM Physical Drive Error Recovery: PDM (Predictive Data Migration):

Replace un-healthy disk member in array, and keep array on normal status during the data transition between healthy PD and replaced PD, Bad Sector Re-mapping, Media Patrol, SMART, Intelligent error recovery mechanisms for erroneous RAID members, RAID 5/6 inconsistent data Prevent (Write Hole Table), Data Content Error Prevention (Read/Write Check Table) NVRAM event logging Supports extensive SCSI command set equivalent to SCSI/FC hard disk drives;

Variable sector size (512Byte to 4kB) to break OS 2TB limitation; 16Byte CDB support for 64-bit LBA address Supported Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Macintosh OS X, Solaris Multi-Path I/O support Management Tools: Operating System independent; Localized in multiple languages; SSL Security support; WebPAM PROe, Web based GUI, via Ethernet port; Command Line Interface and Utility via Serial Port or Ethernet (Telnet); Auto, Express and Advanced configuration support for novice and skilled users.

Seamless software failover and failback on management Ethernet port Management Interfaces/Protocols, Embedded Web server and mgmt support – No host agent is needed; Ethernet, RJ-11 Serial Port; CIM/WBEM, SNMP, SSL, SLP, Event Notification: Email, NETSEND; audible (buzzer), and visible (LEDs) alarms

2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Accessory kit Mac OS X - U.S. English 2GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM - 2x1GB SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW) 120GB Serial ATA drive Apple Wireless Keyboard & wireless Mighty Mouse (Part Number: BC792LL/A)

Part Number:Z0EM

One 16x SuperDrive

Apple Keyboard and Mighty Mouse - U.S. English

Quad-channel 4Gb Fibre Channel PCI Express card

Accessory kit

Two 3.0GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon

8GB (4 x2GB)

320GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s

Mac OS X - U.S. English

Accessory kit

Viewable Size: 30 inches (30-inch viewable image size); Pixel Pitch: 0.2505mm Response Time (grey to grey): 8ms; Viewing Angle: 178 degrees (vertical), 178 degrees (horizontal);

Luminance (Brightness): 370cd/m2 Typical; Contrast Ratio (3000:1);

Native Resolution 2560 x 1600 at 60 Hz; DVI-D (dual link) with HDCP, HDMI, S Video, Component Integrated 9-in-2 media card reader/slots, 4 Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 Ports

Viewable Size: 24 inches (24-inch viewable image size); Pixel Pitch: 0.270mm; Response Time: (Typical)6ms Viewing Angle: 178 degrees (vertical), 178 degrees (horizontal); Luminance (Brightness) 400 cd/m2 Typical Contrast Ratio (1000:1); Native Resolution 1920 x 1200 at 60 Hz DVI-D (Digital) with High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) S-Video, Composite, Component, Integrated 9-in-2 media card reader/slots, 4 Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 Ports

Viewing Angle: 160 degrees (vertical), 160 degrees (horizontal); Luminance (Brightness) 400 cd/m2 Typical Contrast Ratio (1000:1); Native Resolution 1920 x 1200 at 60 Hz DVI-D (Digital) with High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP)

- 39320 SCSI Controller Card with 4M External SCSI Cable [Included in Price]

- LRO3-060 Rack Mount Installation [Included in Price]

- Tape Media for LTO3, 400/800GB, 20 Pack

- Tape Media for LTO3, 400/800GB, 15 Pack

CPU Socket Type Dual Socket 771 Intel Xeon FSB1333/1066MHz North Bridge Intel 5000P, South Bridge Intel 6321ESB Other Chipset Winbond 83627HF Super I/O chip 8 x 240Pin DDR2 667, Maximum Memory Supported 16GB Dual Channel ECC Registered FBDIMM PCI Express x16 1 x PCI-E x16 slot (w/ x8 signal) 1 x PCI-E x16 slot (w/ x8 sig. from Blackford MCH) PCI Express x8 1 x PCI-E x8 slot (w/ x4 signal) PCI Express x4 1 x Inversed PCI-E x4 slot (w/ x8 signal) for risers, in-lined with the first PCI-X slot PCI Express x1 2 PCI-X Slots (64-bit 133MHz) 2 PATA 1 x ATA 100; SATA 6 x SATA II; SATA RAID 0/1/10/5 Onboard Video Chipset ATI ES1000 Onboard LAN: LAN Speed 1000Mbps; Second LAN Speed 1000Mbps; Max LAN Speed: Dual 1000Mbps Rear Panel Ports:

PS/2 2; COM 1; Video Ports D-Sub; USB 6 x USB 2.0 Onboard USB 2 x USB 2.0 Form Factor Extended ATX; Dimensions 13.0" x 12.0"