Amendment_01_continuation_pages.doc

SSA-RFP-13-1010

Amendment No. 000001

This solicitation amendment is hereby issued to:

1) Incorporate Attachment 1 to this amendment entitled “Questions and Responses #1” dated March 1, 2013 to provide Government responses to questions from the vendor community;

2) Amend Section C.2.2 “Definitions”; Section C.3.3.1 “General”; Section C.3.3.2 “OS SAN Storage Subsystems”; and Section C.3.8.2 “On-site SE Services” to include additional language to further define and clarify the Government’s requirements.

To that end, the following amendments are hereby made:

A. Attachment 1 - “Questions and Responses #1” dated March 1, 2013 is incorporated and attached to this amendment.

B. Attachment 2 – “SSA-RFP-13-1010_0001” is incorporated and attached to this amendment changing the following:

a. Section C.2.2 “Definitions” - ADD “2.2.26. 2.5 Inch Form Factor Drive - A storage device with a width of 3 inches or less.”

b. Section C.3.3.1.2. - REPLACE the words “a migration” in the first sentence with “local and remote migrations.” ADD after the last sentence “For a local migration, both the old and new storage subsystems will be located in the same data center. For a remote migration the two storage subsystems are located at different data centers and are connected via SSA’s Replication Network as defined in Section E, Attachment A.”

c. Section C.3.3.2. - ADD after the first sentence “Each drive in the subsystem with a storage capacity of less than 1 TB must be a 2.5 Inch Form Factor Drive.”

d. Section C.3.8.2.11. - REPLACE in its entirety with “Assist with the design of the NSC storage infrastructure.”

e. Section C.3.8.2.12. - ADD “3.8.2.12. Assist with developing procedures to migrate data from the NCC to the NSC (Refer to SSA’s current storage infrastructure outlined in Section E, Attachment A).”

f. Section C.3.8.2.13. - ADD “3.8.2.13. Assist with testing procedures to migrate data from the NCC to the NSC (Refer to SSA’s current storage infrastructure outlined in SECTION E, Attachment A).”

g. Section C.3.8.2.14. - ADD “3.8.2.14.

Assist with the migration of production data from the NCC to the NSC (Refer to SSA’s current storage infrastructure outlined in SECTION E, Attachment A).”

h. Section C.3.8.2.15. - ADD “3.8.2.15.

Assist with the movement of the hardware from NCC to the NSC.”

C. An amended solicitation document Attachment 2 - “SSA-RFP-13-1010_0001” is provided incorporating the above amendments. All changes are highlighted in yellow.

No extension of the due dates listed in Section F-2.5 or F-2.6 are changed as a result of this amendment. PROPOSALS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 3:00 p.m. EST on MARCH 27, 2013.