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AMENDMENT OF SOLICITATION/MODIFICATION OF CONTRACT

1. CONTRACT ID CODE PAGE OF PAGES

1 I 1

2. AMENDMENT/MODIFICATION NO.

000001

3. EFFECTIVE DATE

05/10/2016

4. REQUISITION/PURCHASE REQ. NO. 5. PROJECT NO. (If applicable)

6. ISSUED BY CODE OCFO-PROC 7. ADMINISTERED BY (If other than Item 6) CODE OCFO-PROC

U.S. I n t e r n a t i o n a l Trade Commission O f f i c e o f Procurement 500 E S t r e e t , SW Room 315 Washington DC 20436

U.S. I n t e r n a t i o n a l Trade Commission O f f i c e o f Procurement 500 E S t r e e t , SW Room 315

Washington DC 20436

8. NAME AND ADDRESS OF CONTRACTOR (Wo., street, county, State and ZIP Code) (X)

FACILITY CODE

9A. AMENDMENT OF SOLICITATION NO.

ITC-RFQ-16-0022

9B. DATED (SEE ITEM 11)

04/28/2016

10A. MODIFICATION OF CONTRACT/ORDER NO.

10B. DATED (SEE ITEM 13)

11. THIS ITEM ONLY A P P L I E S TO AMENDMENTS OF SOLICITATIONS

[x ]The above numbered solicitation is amended as set forth in Item 14. The hour and date specified for receipt of Offers d i s extended. [Mis not extended.

Offers must acknowledge receipt of this amendment prior to the hour and date specified in the solicitation or as amended , by one of the following methods: (a) By completing

Items 8 and 15, and returning copies of the amendment; (b) By acknowledging receipt of this amendment on each copy of the offer submi t ted; or (c) By separate letter or telegram which includes a reference to the solicitation and amendment numbers. FAILURE OF YOUR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT T O BE RECEIVED AT

THE PLACE DESIGNATED FOR THE RECEIPT OF OFFERS PRIOR TO THE HOUR AND DATE SPECIFIED MAY RESULT IN REJECTION OF YOUR OFFER If by virtue of this amendment you desire to change an offer already submi t ted , such change may be made by telegram or letter, provided each telegram or letter makes reference to the solicitation and this amendment, and is received prior to the opening hour and date specified.

12. ACCOUNTING AND APPROPRIATION DATA (If required)

13. THIS ITEM ONLY A P P L I E S TO MODIFICATION OF C O N T R A C T S / O R D E R S . IT MODIFIES THE C O N T R A C T / O R D E R NO. A S D E S C R I B E D IN ITEM 14.

CHECK ONE A. THIS CHANGE ORDER IS ISSUED PURSUANTTO: (Specify authority) THE CHANGES SET FORTH IN ITEM 14 A R E MADE IN THE CONTRACT

ORDER NO. IN ITEM 10A.

A. THIS CHANGE ORDER IS ISSUED PURSUANTTO: (Specify authority) THE CHANGES SET FORTH IN ITEM 14 A R E MADE IN THE CONTRACT

ORDER NO. IN ITEM 10A.

B. THE ABOVE NUMBERED CONTRACT/ORDER IS MODIFIED TO REFLECT THE ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES (such as changes in paying office, appropriation date, etc.) S E T F O R T H IN ITEM 14, PURSUANT TO THE AUTHORITY OF FAR 43.103(b).

C. THIS SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT IS ENTERED INTO PURSUANTTO AUTHORITY OF:

D. OTHER (Specify type of modification and authority)

E. IMPORTANT: Contractor • Is no t Dis required to sign this document and return copies to the issuing office.

14. DESCRIPTION OF AMENDMENT/MODIFICATION (Organized by UCF section headings, including solicitation/contract subject matter where feasible.)

The purpose o f Amendment #000001 t o t h e s o l i c i t a t i o n i s t o :

1) P r o v i d e t h e Government's responses t o t h e q u e s t i o n s r e c e i v e d f r o m p o t e n t i a l o f f e r o r s r e g a r d i n g t h e ITC-RFQ-16-0022 - see Attachment I

2) A t t a c h e d , r e v i s e d page 10 o f 48 o f t h e RFQ t o i n c l u d e an a d d i t i o n t o S e c t i o n 2.6.1 -

T e c h n i c a l Requirement(Phase I-Purchases)#3 - see "q".

O f f e r o r s a re r e q u i r e d t o acknowledge r e c e i p t o f t h i s amendment, as s t a t e d i n B l o c k 11 o f t h i s Standard Form 30.

Except as provided herein, all terms and conditions o f t h e document referenced in Item 9 A or 10A, as heretofore changed, remains unchanged and in full force and effect.

15A. NAME AND TITLE OF SIGNER (Type or print) 16A. NAME AND TITLE OF CONTRACTING OFFICER (Type or print)

T e r r i S. L o n g - M i l l e r

15B. CONTRACTOR/OFFEROR 15C. DATE SIGNED 16B. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 16C. DATE SIGNED

(Signature of person authorized to sign)

15C. DATE SIGNED

(Signature of Contracting Officer)

16C. DATE SIGNED

NSN 7540-01-152-8070 STANDARD FORM 30 (REV. 10-83)

Previous edition unusable Prescribed by GSA

FAR (48 CFR) 53.243

Attachment I ITC-RFQ-16-0022 Amendment 000001

Question 1: The RFQ contains make and model numbers for NetApp products, are you accepting NetApp products only?

Answer 1: As stated in Appendix 1, tables 1 through 5, all products are described as brand name or equal.

Question 2: What is the fast storage, 15K RPM Hard Disk or Flash Storage (SSD: Solid State Drives)?

Answer 2: As stated in section 2.6.1.2 e and f, fast storage is 1 OK SAS or faster, and slow storage is 7.2K SAS or faster

Question 3: In section 2.6.1 there is mention of Implementing FIPS 140-2 validated encryption.

Are you looking for encryption data at rest to be provided in the storage array and backup solution?

Answer 3: The Government requires encryption data at rest only for backup solution

Question 4: Can you provide information about your network infrastructure?

a. Is the existing network a 1 Gbit and/or 10Gbit infrastructure?

b. Is there a management network separate from the data/user network?

Answer 4a: Both: 1Gbit and 10Gbit Answer 4b: Yes

Question 5: For CIFS and NFS support, does the government require 1 Gbit Ethernet or 10Gbit Ethernet connectivity?

Answer 5: 10 Gbit Ethernet connectivity.

Question 6: Upon move who will be performing the unracking of the equipment and the re-racking of equipment at the Primary Data Center?

a. Can the IT equipment be shipped in existing rack(s)?

Answer 6: The contractor in conjunction with the government will perform the unracking and re-racking of equipment.

Answer 6a: No. IT equipment cannot be shipped in existing racks.

Question 7: Clarify if the SAN storage to tape connectivity is required to be Fiber Channel attached in addition iSCSI attached?

a. Do you require Fiber Channel interfaces to be in the storage array initially?

Answer 7: Fibre Channel is not required for the SAN storage.

Answer 7a: No.

Question 8: How many VM hypervisors hosts do you plan on purchasing?

Answer 8: Not determined at this time. The VMware ESXi environment for customer use should be fully redundant.

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Question 9: What is the retention period for the backup data?

Answer 9: Currently indefinite. As slow storage begins to fill, older backups will be migrated to tape.

Question 10: Are there any physical hosts that are not virtualized in this environment?

Answer 10: Yes

Question 11: Are you using a public, private or hybrid cloud solution?

Answer 11: None at present

Question 12: Will there be cross replication of the backup data between the two sites vs a traditional DR solution?

Answer 12: Yes

Question 13: What percentage of the overall capacity requirement is File based storage?

Answer 13: Approximately 80%

Question 14: How many Windows File Servers are in use?

Answer 14: Three.

Question 15: Is there a defined RPO/RTO for data recovery at the DR site?

Answer 15: No.

Question 16: Are you leveraging path management failover software on the 12-ESXi servers?

Answer 16: Yes.

Question 17: Are you looking for data encryption at rest or in flight or both?

Answer 17: The WAN acceleration solution must implement FIPS 140-2 validated encryption in flight. The backup solution must implement FIPS 140-2 validated encryption for data at rest and in flight.

Question 18: Are capacity requirements listed in 00001a, b c RAW or Usable capacities?

Answer 18: As stated in section 4.2.2.1.2, "Storage capacities are specified in usable space after accounting for overhead due to RAID, etc."

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Question 19: What is USITC asking for, Contractor to provide a VMware ESXi environment?

a. Please provide additional details of the desired ESXi environment

Answer 19: As stated in section 2.6.1.1 .c, the WAN acceleration and caching solution must provide a VMware ESXi environment for customer use. The intent is to have a VMware environment that remains at HQ after Phase V.

Answer 19a: Among the requirements in section 2.6.1.1 are:

o. Optimal compression and data reduction elements: ... Data Store RAID, RAID 10 Support, 12

TB Data Store, and SSD Data Store.

z. Compute Virtualization elements: VMware Hypervisor, Multiple Guests, vSphere Hypervisor, Dedicated Partition, Windows Guests, and Proprietary Guests

aa. Storage Virtualization elements: Virtualized storage for VMs, Up to 12 TB data storage, iSCSI virtual storage, Cached virtual storage ...

Question 20: 2.6.1- 2s states "Expand and reduce volume sizes on the fly". Can USITC please define "on the fly"?

Answer 20: While the affected hypervisors and virtual machines are up and running

Question 21: What is the anticipated award date for this RFQ?

Answer 21: May 23, 2016 is the quotation due date. The Government anticipates award on or before June 20, 2016

Question 22: Please clarify if this was meant to be "raid 6.0" or equivalent?

Answer 22: RAID 6 + striping (RAID 0)

Question 23: Page 8 Section 2.6.1 & Page 43 Table II - The RFQ requests a certain amount of SAS 10k disks for fast storage. In the example BOM only SATA7.2k disks are shown. Since these are two different types of disks; should bidders propose equivalent storage to that which is in the BOM or should bidders propose equivalent storage to that which is described on page 8 section 2.6.1?

Answer 23: All disks should be SAS.

Question 24: The RAID 60 requirement limits the number of vendors that can propose a solution.

Will USITC consider removing this requirement to open the competitive landscape?

Answer 24: No.

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Amendment 000001 ITC-RFQ-16-0022

g. Seamless snapshot integration

h. Single managemen t point

i. Granular RPOs j . Self-service access to da ta with vCenter plug-in and w e b console for restores

k. Integration of archiving capabilit ies with backup agents that allows for one-pass archiving with no addit ional d a t a movement over normal backup I. Ability to c reate integrated snapshots to c reate ca ta loged , appl icat ion aware recovery copies m a n a g e d from a single interface

m. Ability to c reate addi t ional copies to addit ional tiers of storage

n. Ability to monitor backup a n d archive system VMs a n d physical servers at multiple locations with a single managemen t portal

o. Ability to coexist with existing Symantec Backup Exec during transition per iod

p. 24/7 - 4 hour response main tenance

q. FIPS 140-2 validated encrytion at rest and in-flight for backup solution

4. Contractor shall review all purchased items a n d confirm all items have been satisfactorily del ivered. (Deliverable 9)

5. Contractor shall not be responsible for racking purchased hardware. Government personnel will rack a n d stack procured hardware a t HQ a n d Primary Data Center.

6. Contractor shall conduc t a closeout meet ing. (Deliverable 7)

7. Phase I will be comple te upon delivery of all items to the government site and a c c e p t a n c e of complet ion by the government .

2.6.2 Phase II - WAN Accelerat ion and C a c h i n g Solution (Deliverables 8, 10, 11, and 12]

Con t rac to r shall con f igu re WAN c a c h i n g a n d a c c e l e r a t i o n for b o t h HQ a n d Primary D a t a Cen te r sites. O n c e Phase III is c o m p l e t e , c o n t r a c t o r shall i n tegra te s to rage w i th WAN c a c h i n g a n d a c c e l e r a t i o n . Speci f ic requi rements are further d e l i n e a t e d b e l o w .

1. C o n t r a c t o r shall p rov ide t echn i ca l staff 1 for c o m p l e t i n g t h e requ i rements listed b e l o w a n d in format ion in A p p e n d i x 1, Table 1.

2. C o n t r a c t o r shall install a n d con f igu re WAN ac c e l e r a t i on a n d c a c h i n g ope ra t i ng system, administ rat ion a n d mon i to r ing p roduc ts . (Deliverables 10 and 11)

3. C o n t r a c t o r shall set u p WAN a c c e l e r a t i o n a n d c a c h i n g f rom HQ to Primary D a t a Center .

4. Con t rac to r , in con junc t i on w i th g o v e m m e n t resources, shall verify:

a . W A N a c c e l e r a t i o n a n d c a c h i n g system integrates w i th existing network env i ronmen t a n d existing V M w a r e t o p rov ide c a c h i n g of d a t a over WAN.

b. W A N a c c e l e r a t i o n a n d c a c h i n g of existing s to rage rep l i ca t ion a n d o ther pro toco ls .

c. W A N a c c e l e r a t i o n a n d c a c h i n g system provides the WAN a c c e l e r a t i o n a n d c a c h i n g promised b y vendor .

5. C o n t r a c t o r shall verify tha t :

a . C a c h e , loca l s torage a n d V M w a r e env i ronment a t HQ is on l ine a n d access ib le .

6. O n c e Phase III is c o m p l e t e , con t rac to r shall reestablish s to rage rep l i ca t ion a t t he Primary Da ta Cen te r a n d veri fy d a t a rep l ica t ion .

7. C o n t r a c t o r shall p rov ide d o c u m e n t a t i o n a n d t w o days o f k n o w l e d g e transfer (Deliverables 8 and 12) i nc lud ing :

a . Adminis t rat ion o f h a r d w a r e a n d so f tware solut ion.

b. In tegrat ion w i th existing V M w a r e .

c. Performing a n d t roub leshoot ing Firmware upg rades .

d . In tegrat ion w i th n e w s to rage solutions in this Purchase Order (Section 2.6.3).

2.6.3 Phase III - Storage Solution (Deliverables 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17]

The g o v e r n m e n t current ly provides d a t a s to rage a t t w o locat ions a n d c o n t r a c t o r must p rov ide p r o c u r e d s to rage solutions t ha t a re rep l i ca ted a t b o t h sites. For migra t ion a n d synchronizat ion o f the d a t a , all p r o c u r e d s to rage solutions f rom Sect ion 2.6.3 will b e de l i vered to HQ. (500 E Street, SW, Wash ing ton , DC)

O n c e all d a t a residing a t HQ is m i g r a t e d to t he n e w s torage solut ion, t h e s to rage solution for t he Primary D a t a Cen te r will b e t ranspor ted by con t rac to r , in con junc t i on w i th g o v e r n m e n t t o Primary D a t a Cen te r l oca t i on . Con t rac to r should b e a w a r e tha t wh i l e this p rocu remen t a n d s torage solution is b e i n g d e p l o y e d b y con t rac to r , t h e g o v e r n m e n t is o n a para l le l p a t h to m ig ra te HQ d a t a to the Primary D a t a Cen te r a n d as a result, c o n t r a c t o r shall b e p r e p a r e d to m ig ra te add i t i ona l d a t a to the s to rage solution o n c e the solution arrives in Sterling. Speci f ic requi rements a re further d e l i n e a t e d b e l o w .

1. C o n t r a c t o r shall p rov ide t e c h n i c a l staff 2 for c o m p l e t i n g t h e requi rements listed b e l o w a n d for t h e in fo rmat ion in A p p e n d i x 1, Table 2.

1 For e f f i c iency a n d ef fect iveness, all services shall b e p r o v i d e d by e m p l o y e e s o f the WAN ac c e l e r a t i on solution v e n d o r p rov id ing t h e p r o d u c t in the c o n d u c t of this ef fort .

2 For e f f i c iency a n d ef fect iveness, all services shall b e p r o v i d e d b y emp loyees of the s to rage solution v e n d o r p rov id ing t h e p r o d u c t in t he c o n d u c t of this ef fort .

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