ICF_Catalog_Backup__Recovery_Software_and_Maintenance_RFQ__-_AG-64WC-S-14-0001_revised_0616.pdf

AG-64WC-S-14-0001 - ICF Catalog Backup and Recovery Software and Maintenance

Request for Quote (RFQ) for Catalog Recovery Software for NITC Page 1 of 4

BACKGROUND: The National Information Technology Center (NITC) is an organization of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of the Chief Information Officer

(OCIO) with a mission to “provide secure, reliable, and cost effective IT solutions to achieve effective mission performance and program delivery for our valued customers”. The NITC is responsible for the operation and management of USDA Enterprise Data Centers in Kansas

City, Missouri and Saint Louis, Missouri as well as a facility in Beltsville, Maryland for development, test, and disaster recovery purposes. The NITC-managed Enterprise Data

Centers provide enterprise-class computer operating environments that enable optimal availability for mission-critical systems and applications that utilize “green” industry best practices as much as possible to improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The NITC manages storage systems at USDA facilities in Salt Lake City Utah, Fort Collins Colorado, and Fort Worth Texas. NITC also manages a Software Development

Center of Excellence in Fort Collins, Colorado to provide a full complement of Enterprise

Information Technology solutions and services to support the missions of agencies and offices both internal and external of USDA. The systems and applications hosted at the NITC facilities are national in scope, mission critical, and essential for the operations of the United

States government. NITC is a 24 hour per day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year continuous operation. For more information on NITC, see www.ocio.usda.gov/nitc/index.html.

PURPOSE: The NITC has a requirement for software that will backup, recover and provide diagnostic capability to ICF Catalog structures. The ICF Catalog is an important critical system dataset that requires backups to repair errors in the catalog structures. There are thousands of datasets that are cataloged in an ICF Catalog structure. NITC’s current backup process is prone to errors and potentially could provide an unsuccessful recovery and cost our

Mainframe systems substantial downtime.

SCOPE: The Contractor shall deliver and provide OEM new software and maintenance in accordance with the requirements identified in this RFQ.

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS: The software vendor shall provide software meeting the general requirements identified in this Section. Software must be able to:

1. The software vendor must provide only ICF Catalog Recovery software tools under this contract.

2. The software backs up all BCS (Basic Catalog Structures) with a single command.

3. The backup of ICF structures can be forward recovered if an ICF Catalog is broken using current SMF data to roll catalog updates to current recovery.

4. A reorganization of an ICF Catalog is dynamic and doesn’t require an outage to the systems. Today, NITC has to incur a system outage during maintenance windows to reorganize an ICF Catalog.

5. An updated MERGECAT process is used by this software that isn’t available with the current IDCAMS utility that is supported with Operating System software.

6. The software provides an easy mechanism to build new ICF catalogs for update to Z/OS

Operating system software. Our current process has to use IBM utility that is prone to errors and requires approximately 3 days customizing. The catalog software ought to be able to allow this process to be completed in a two-to- three hour timeframe.

http://www.ocio.usda.gov/nitc/index.html

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COMPATIBILITY: The products proposed under this RFQ will need to be compatible with:

1. NITC’s existing IBM mainframe hardware and operating system:

USDA Shared mainframe IBM Model EC12 – 2827-H20 cm-405, Frame Serial #

461A7, zOS V 2.1, 128 GB Memory, 5 GP-PUs Active - 1087 MIPS; 2 ZiiPs

Active - 3028 MIPS

2. This software will create multiple copies of the backup – one copy on virtual tape, one copy on disk and the copy on virtual tape will be replicated to St. Louis for recovery if our Data Center in Kansas City was not accessible. It will run on our current backup hardware with no modifications.

a. The catalog software is compatible with our current operating systems support and requires no interface to any other backup utility.

Software TRADE-IN: As a part of this proposal, USDA intends to drop maintenance on

OpenTech Tapecopy and replace with the software awarded as a part of this solicitation.

Mfr Mfr Part # Description QTY

OpenTech TapeCopy

The TapeCopy software was used initially during 2008 migration from 3490 technology to new IBM Virtual Tape subsystem. 1

This product is maintenance is under order AG-64WC-P-14-0012 to Rocket Software

(formerly OpenTech Systems) NITC Site ID is 429.

If the Government accepts the trade-in offer, the Government will de-install and remove this software from NITC’s computer systems in Kansas City, Missouri.

DELIVERY OF NEW SOFTWARE: The contractor shall deliver all software to the National

Information Technology Center, 8930 Ward Parkway, Kansas City, Missouri 64114.

Delivery of new software shall be within 30 calendar days of date of award.

MAINTENANCE/Technical Support: The Contractor shall provide manufacture maintenance under the standard warranty offering, or any upgraded warranty coverage, as specified in specified requirements. The government requires maintenance support during duration of the contract.

WARRANTY: Warranty means a promise or affirmation given by a contractor to the

Government regarding the nature, usefulness, or condition of the supplies or performance of services furnished under the contract. Warranty is generally referred to as the manufacture’s standard warranty. The Contractor shall provide a minimum of twelve (12) months warranty for the software acquired as a result of this solicitation, or the manufacturer’s standard warranty, whichever is longer. Warranties shall be identified for each piece of software furnished on the quote.

508 COMPLIANCE REQUIREMENTS: The Government is required to take taken to determine if the acquisition meets 508 compliance requirements. See the 508 section with this document and https://app.buyaccessible.gov/baw/ or http://www.section508.gov/ for more information. Many vendors have their VPATs listed on http://buyaccessible.net/VARC/. Additional information is included 508 clause attached to https://app.buyaccessible.gov/baw/ http://www.section508.gov/ http://buyaccessible.net/VARC/

Request for Quote (RFQ) for Catalog Recovery Software for NITC Page 3 of 4 this RFQ. If the manufacture feels their products are exempt from Section 508 Regulations, please supply an official manufacture’s statement on exemption determination referencing the appropriate section of the Section 508 Regulations. (See Section 508 Relevance in the

Glossary at http://app.buyaccessible.gov/baw/Main.jsp). Responses shall include the VPAT or other determinations the manufacture has made regarding 508 compliance of the products.

INSTALLATION, PLANNING AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT SUPPORT: Installation, installation planning and project management support is not required as a part of this contract. The installation of this product will be configured by NITC MSB (Mainframe

Systems Branch) and would only require technical support/maintenance acquired with purchase of new software.

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INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTAL OF OFFERS:

Responses Due: Responses (Quotes) and Past Performance Questionnaires are due at 5:00 p.m.

EST, June 23, 2014.

Technical:

Software: Offerors must provide information on the product(s) proposed, showing one hundred percent (100) compliance with the specified configurations. The Offeror must provide an affirmative response showing compliance with each technical requirement contained in the attached configurations.

Past Performance: Provide a listing of at least three references using the ICF Catalog Recovery tool in their IBM Mainframe environments. Have those references complete the attached past performance questionnaire and returned completed questionnaires with quote.

Price: Prices must be offered for each of the following mandatory items to permit the calculation of total acquisition costs:

Software License (and delivery) with license basis (Processor, MIPS, user, etc.)

Trade-in Allowance (if applicable)

Maintenance of new software (after expiration of offered warranty)

Offerors must provide an affirmative statement that the software proposed exactly matches the specified configurations, and that the Offeror has taken no (zero) exceptions to the stated requirements. Offers that deviate from, or take exception to, any configuration item will not be considered for award.

Responses should include the following items: Discount for Prompt Payment, Remit to Address, Delivery Time After Receipt of Order, Warranty Period, Federal Tax ID Number, DUNS, Size/Type of Business, and Contract Number (GSA/SEWP, etc.). (Note: Offerors must provide a copy (or link to website containing) of their GSA schedule/NASA SEWP contract; or, at a minimum, a copy of the page(s) applicable to the product proposed coupled with a copy of the schedule/contract cover showing schedule number and effective dates. If the items are no available on any Federal contract, the quote should clearly state it is Open Market.)

BASIS FOR AWARD: The Government currently has Fiscal-Year 2014 funds available for the acquisition of this software due to transfer of maintenance contract for acquisition of this software. The Government intends to award a single order using a Lowest Price Technically

Acceptable Source Selection Process. The Government reserves the right to award without discussions. The following factors will be used to evaluate offers:

Evaluation Factors:

Technical:

o Compliance with Technical Requirements (software and warranty/maintenance) o Past Performance

Price and Price-Related Factors:

Software Purchase Price

Warranty Period

Maintenance (technical support) of Catalog Recovery software

Trade-In Allowance