Questions_and_Answers_-_12-04.pdf

Questions and Answers

Solicitation: HE1AA-P-13-0002

December 4, 2012

1. Is there current SPAM filtering technology today that would need integration into our portal? If so, what technology?

Postini

2. At what bandwidth, at how many locations, and how many points of presence does GSA have?

500 Mbps, average utilization is 150Mbps. POPS have the ability to scale upto 1GB with no reprovisioning required.

3. Do you have a percentage of emails that have attachments?

708,737 Total Inbound Message Volume at Postini Gateway 531,878 Inbound volume after SPAM & A/V filters 29,496 Qty with Attachment(s)

4. 20,000 nodes are referenced, how many mailboxes are part of this requirement?

17639 User Email and Shared Accounts (Google)

5. Are there statistics of the email traffic (peak hours, and loads) that GSA has available?

Unfortunately, reporting limitations with Postini prevents us from collecting an hourly breakdown to determine peak hour stats.

6. What is the number of (per hour peak) email loads during the 8:00am-5:00pm work day?

Reporting limitations with Postini prevents us from collecting an hourly breakdown to determine peak hour stats.

7. What average utilization of network links?

150mbps

8. What peak utilization of network links?

500mbps

9. Whether or not you'll allow a cloud solution to participate in the response. E.g in addition to the managed service are you ok with data (eg historical analysts, etc) to be kept input secure cloud?

The requested service is specific to a managed service solution with appliances vendor managed appliances kept inside GSA's network. Cloud related solutions that host agency data outside of GSAs may be permissible granted the vendors cloud solution has undergone security assessment and authorization (i.e., C&A) by a Federal agency. The effort is outside the scope of the services sought in this contract.