181st IW - Servers and Drives

The 181st Intelligence Wing, Indiana Air National Guard, has a requirement to award a firm-fixed-price contract for Servers and Drives and is seeking quotations.

Please provide a price quote for the following product(s) that have the minimum specifications:

CLIN 0001: Minimum Server Hardware Requirements

Intel Xeon Gold 5315Y Processor 8-Core 3.2GHz 12MB Cache

36x Total Hot-swap 3.5" SAS3/SATA3 drive bays

350 TB Raw Storage (25x 3.5" SAS, 14TB HDDs)

16GB DDR4 1.2V 3200 ECC REG

2x 3.84TB Samsung PM9A3 Series M.2 NVMes

4 x 10 GbE ports

1x dedicated IPMI LAN Port

Trusted Platform Module 2.0 V3

3 Year Limited Warranty(minimum)

QTY: 2

Unit of Issue: Each

CLIN 0002: Software Requirements - Brand name or Equal to

Veritas Backup Exec - 1 year Subscription

QTY: 2

Unit of Issue: Each

CLIN 0003: Operating System Requirement - Brand name or Equal to

MS Server 2022

QTY: 2

Unit of Issue: Each

The software and operating system is being solicited “brand name or equal.”  The following brand name and model features the minimum specifications in order to satisfy this request:

Veritas Backup Exec

MS Server 2022

An “equal” item must meet the characteristics/features as outlined above. If providing an "equal" product, vendors must provide specifiication sheet to be used to determine acceptability. The government retains the right to evalute any number of specification of "equal" items against the attached spec sheet to determine acceptability.

Basis on which quotes will be evaluated and award will be made:  PRICE ALONE

Quotation Due Date: 20 September, 2024 at 2:00pm EST.

In accordance with (IAW) Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 4.1102(a), quoters are required to be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) (https://sam.gov/) at the time a quotation is submitted in order to comply with the annual representations and certifications requirements.

IAW FAR Part 19 and FAR Provision 52.219-6, Notice of Total Small Business Set-Aside, quotes are being solicited only from small business concerns.  Quotes received from concerns that are not small business concerns shall be considered nonresponsive and will be rejected.

North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code:  334111
Small Business Size Standard: Employees: 1,250

In accordance with Army FAR Supplement 5132.702(a)(ii)(B), funds are not presently available for this acquisition.  No contract award will be made until appropriated funds are made available.

Thank you for your consideration, and we look forward to receiving your response.