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The Defense Health Agency, “(DHA or Agency)” is a subsidiary of the Department of Defense-a federal government organization. It is a Joint, integrated Combat Support Agency enabling the Army, Navy, and Air Force medical services to provide a medically ready force to Combatant Commands in both peacetime and wartime. Defense Health Agency (DHA) requires File Servers useful for the management of information flow and continuity of operations supporting DHA’s Mission including component installations.

The contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, supplies, facilities, transportation, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and non-personal services necessary to perform file server assembly, component installation, and configuration in accordance with the below specification. The contractor shall deliver computer – file servers by Dell to the exact standards herein as this is a firm-fixed price supply contract for Dell Computer File Servers Technologies (2 each). Agency Standard is to have file servers equipped with applicable hardware, operating systems, and associated software, firmware, or necessary components as specified below. The successful contractor is responsible for conformance and mixture of standard elements resulting in file servers that shall store and manage data and information accordingly.

· From DHA’s perspective, the Computer File Servers shall be installed in a Dell Technologies environment where there is a network enterprise of Dell File Servers fortifying the Naval Dosimeter Center (NDC)-a DHA component organization. The federal government will assist contractor with coordination of necessary building access, applicable technical communications, and clarifications pre and post equipment delivery, and government acceptance of configured results once equipment is delivered in good standing. Government Acceptance is based on contractor responsiveness and contractor responsibility. Contractor responsibility includes an active Sam.gov Registration, where there are no adverse past performance issues listed there in the database or documented in some other form or source, for example anywhere on the World-Wide-Web (www) where there are public access rights. The Contractor shall comply with Federal, State, Local laws, and Federal Regulations as applicable to the performance of this firm-fixed price supply contract.

· The Contractor shall not accept new instructions issued by any person other than the DHA Contracting Officer (KO) and his official technical representative(s)-post contract award. Preaward instructions are provided herein.

· Services, secondarily or incidental, provided by the contractor shall guarantee that installation is in full compliance with industry standards including DoD codes and regulations.

· "Contractor's Point-of-Contact" (POC). The Contractor shall provide the name and the telephone numbers of technical counterparts to DHA technical representative(s), contractor’s primary and alternate English-speaking individual(s) shall act as vendor- representative, if applicable, for the scheduling and coordination of service calls and shall be responsible for the coordination of the contract with the federal government prior to contract expiration, but during the warranty period of file server equipment and associated technologies attached.

DHA requires price quotations for matching this specification below:

GRAND TOTAL PRICE:

YOUR GRAND TOTAL PRICE HERE

· CUSTOMERIZE CONFIGURATION DESCRIBED-Agency requires two each of this complete system, this means for example, 8 each of the 32GB RDIMM, 3200MT / s, Dual Rank 8Gb BASE x4 - 370- AEVN is repeated to cover two (2) systems each totaling 16 of the 32GB RDIMM, 3200MT / s, Dual Rank 8Gb BASE x4 - 370- AEVN. The same goes for the 1.92TB SSD vSAS. Reiteration - The above configuration is MANDATORY -but CUSTOMIZED; however, it may not be exclusive to DHA in terms of marketing and being sold to other organizations by Dell. There are system elements that specify Part Numbers and then in the description, it begins with “no, not, or non-required…” this is to show the permanence of the request for the customized configuration supporting DHA exclusively for this particular solicitation. The government understands that the items with “No, Not or NON-Required...” will be unpriced in “DESCRIPTION” because that is what is required for Agency need of configurative file server.

· The government realizes this file server description has many elements; however, this is an “all or none”-“exact match” requirement. The award shall go to the contractor that can provide the complete match to aforementioned configuration. If an element is not priced then the government views that the unpriced element is included in the “bottom line” or grand total price, if your proposal is an exact match to what Agency is requiring then it is technically acceptable, for this is a “LOW COST – TECHNICALLY ACCEPTABLE” PROCUREMENT. Not responding exactly the way it is solicited may cause the government to reject your quotation.

· DUPLICATE ITEMS SPECIFIED HEREIN ARE PURPOSED – PLEASE DON’T IGNORE. Agency intends to purchase the quantity of two (2) System CONFIGURATION OF FILE SERVER; therefore, duplicate items are for that purpose. When pricing please govern yourselves accordingly. In reiteration, you’ll find that some system elements are repeated. Please view this as part of our customizations and please address, at maximum, with a priceable line-item as the applicable regarded value. There are fifty (50) elements to this configuration as specified above.

INFORMATION SECURITY:

It is the government’s intention to purchase computer file servers and associated components herein that do not counter act the government’s information security apparatus. In accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulations, Information Security means the government shall procure file server technology that does not compromise government information and information systems and does not promote unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, unauthorized modification, or destruction of any government information stored on these new file servers after procuring them and attaching them to a government network enterprise.

(1) The contractor awarded a contract that complies to the standards and specifications herein shall promote integrity, which means guarding against improper information modification or destruction, and includes ensuring to the best of its ability information “nonrepudiation” and technological “authenticity”. The government is buying information technology that shall be used for storage and management of its information (computer files), and any other use form is prohibited by the federal government, no other forms of storage shall be aided by the vendor awarded a contract for supply of file servers.

(2) Confidentiality, which means preserving authorized restrictions on access and disclosure, including means for protecting personal privacy and proprietary information; and,

(3) Availability, which means ensuring timely and reliable access to, and use of information technologies installed in file servers purposed for fulfilling federal government’s need for server attributes as a solution to file management requirements.

WARRANTY:

The federal government shall have the Manufacturer’s warranty provided by Dell Technologies, Inc. plus five (5) years extended warranty for the file servers. Agency expects price of warranty to be included in the total price.

“KEEP YOUR HARD DRIVE” AMENITY:

This is a notification. The Federal Government shall keep hard drives of all replacement computer file servers whether defective or not. This fortifies the federal government’s information assurance integrities where DHA strives for certainty to protect all information generated by Agency while executing its mission requirements and program standards.