T-REX_ICF_CATALOG_BACKUP_AND_RECOVERY_SOW_Renewal_FY18.pdf

IASREQ-915694

T-REX ICF Catalog Backup and Recovery Software and Maintenance.

STATEMENT OF WORK

IASREQ-915694 - ICF Catalog Backup and Recovery Software and Maintenance

Request for Quote (RFQ) T-REX ICF Catalog Backup & Recovery

Software Maintenance

BACKGROUND: The Digital Infrastructure Services Center (DISC) 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 DISC 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 DISC-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 DISC manages storage systems at USDA facilities in Salt Lake City Utah, Fort Collins Colorado, and Fort Worth Texas. DISC 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 DISC facilities are national in scope, mission critical, and essential for the operations of the United

States government. DISC is a 24 hour per day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year continuous operation.

PURPOSE: The DISC has a requirement for T-REXC ICF Catalog Backup and Recovery

Software Maintenance that will continue to 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.

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

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

1. The software vendor must provide T-REX 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 r e c o v e r y .

4. A reorganization of an ICF Catalog is dynamic and doesn't require an outage to the systems. Today, DISC currently utilizes T-REX Catalog Recovery software to perform maintenance on ICF Catalogs.

5. An updated MERGECAT process is used by this software.

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

Operating system software. The catalog software is expected to be able to allow this process to be completed in a two to three-hour timeframe.

COMPATIBILITY: The products under this RFQ are compatible with:

1. DISC's existing IBM mainframe hardware and operating system:

USDA Shared mainframe IBM Model Z14 - 3906-405, Frame Serial# 0AAB8, zOS V 2.1, 256 GB Memory, 5 GP-PUs Active - 1159 MIPS; 1 ZiiPs 1832 for total Active – 2991 MIPS

2. This software creates 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.

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

Infrastructure Services Center, 8930 Ward Parkway, Kansas City, Missouri 64114. Delivery of software shall be within 30 calendar days of date of award.

No physical delivery is expected, electronic delivery information will be provided to successful offeror

Vendors submitting a response to this RFQ that may incur a lapse in maintenance support prior to the award date, shall include as part of its response any applicable reinstatement fee(s).

OMB MEMORANDUM M-16-12

In accordance with OMB Memorandum M-16-12, Policy 16-1: Improving the Acquisition and Management of Information Technology - Software Licensing:

USDA must maintain an inventory of its software licenses, including pricing data. The contractor shall provide line item pricing data on all software licenses provided to USDA at award and/or during performance of the contract/order. The attachment entitled "Software

Template Line Item Pricing" must be completed and provided to the Contracting Officer's

Representative within 10 days of award, or within 10 days of activation for licenses provided after the award date.

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 determine if the acquisition meets 508 compliance requirements. See the 508 section with this document and http://www.section508.gov/ for more information. Many vendors have their VPATs listed on https://www.itic.org/policy/accessibility/vpat

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

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INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTAL OF QUOTES:

Responses Due: Responses (Quotes) are due at 5:00 p.m. EST, August 2, 2018.

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.

• Compatibility: 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

Price

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.)

• Maintenance of 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: Product description with unit price for base year and two option years, 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 not available on any Federal contract, the quote should clearly state it is Open Market.)

No physical delivery is expected, electronic delivery information will be provided to successful offeror.

FUNDING:

The Government has Fiscal Year 2018 funds available for the acquisition of this

Software maintenance and technical support.

ATTACHMENTS:

Attachment 1 Shared IBM Mainframe Hardware Configurations

Attachment 2 Software Template Line Item Pricing

Attachment 3 Federal Acquisition Regulation FAR Subpart 39.2 508 Compliance Requirements