RFI backup solution.doc

Department of Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network

Request for Information

Project: Backup Solution for Legacy and IT MOD DR

FinCEN Mission:

The United States Department of Treasury and the U.S. Congress have designated FinCEN as a Treasury Bureau whose mission is to establish, oversee and implement policies to prevent and detect money laundering and to fight terrorism. In part, FinCEN is to support law enforcement investigate efforts and foster interagency and global cooperation against domestic and international financial crimes.

Background on FinCEN’s BSA:

FinCEN provides BSA data to agencies for tax, regulatory and law enforcement purposes in a secure manner. In order to safeguard the data across external users, proper training, monitoring and data exchanges are required. These activities are accomplished through coupling training and onsite inspections (at client site), along with routine communications and offsite inspections (audits).

Information FinCEN Desires from Contractors:

FinCEN has a requirement for a backup/archive solution for the Legacy and IT MOD Disaster Recovery. The solution includes, but is not limited to the following:

· Must be able to perform backups via Symantec Netbackup OST

· Network Solution must include the capability to integrate with 1G and 10G Ethernet

· Needs to work with the existing tape libraries. Critical for archive requirement.

· Flexibility/scalability to grow or shrink easily when IT/MOD DR backup/archive requirements are specified.

· Work with our current DataFort encryption

· Solution needs to be able to accept backup and archive requests from Multiple Symantec Netbackup Media Servers.

· Compatible with the version of NetBackup that we are using (both Windows / Unix).

· Intuitive/Easy to learn management interface (Backup / Restore / Client management etc).

· Good technical support response time for various issues (hardware / software etc).

· Up to 26TB of the backup capacity must be architected to be detached from the remaining storage and relocated to another facility at a future date

· Initial capacity must be no less than 52TB usable space

· Solution must be scalable to 1 Petabyte

· Solution must provide FIPS compliant data at rest encryption solution

· Solution must include integration and training services to implement the solution in FinCEN's production environment The contractor shall provide their capability statement ensuring the above objectives are met, in addition to supplying the information below. Responses shall be no more than 10 pages.

· Price;

· Delivery;

· Capabilities For planning purposes;

· Questions regarding the specifications of this requirements

The Government does not intend to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information requested. FinCEN will assess the ability of the market to meet the needs as stated above based on the information received. Dependent upon the results of this market survey, FinCEN may subsequently issue an RFQ to acquire the appropriate solution.

Information sent in response to this request shall be sent to the attention of Maxwell Sarpong at Maxwell.Sarpong@FinCEN.gov no later than Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. EST. Please note that no RFQ document is available at this time.

Request For Information

Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) IT MOD 06/10/11