FDR Compuware Software Service Renewal

The Department of State, Office of Acquisition Management on behalf of Bureau of Information Resource Management, Enterprise Server Operations Center (IRM/SIO/ESOC)  issues this special notice of its intent of a sole source purchase order with Compuware Corporation for FDR Compuware Software Service Renewal.  Period of performance 1/1/2021- 12/31/2021.

The requested services would provide software support, software patches and revisions, and licensing proprietary products: FDR/CPK, ABR and FATS/FATAR are products the Department requires ensuring data is managed in a recoverable manner.

FDRABR is a suite of powerful, flexible and high-performance z/OS DASD Management tools, which provide a range of features including: 

Managed volume and incremental backup (FDRINC)

Application backup (FDRAPPL)

Ad-hoc volume and data set backup (FDR)

Data archive/migration and space management (FDRARC)

Dataset copy/move (FDRCOPY)

DASD Management Reporting (FDREPORT)

            FDR provides standard, high-performance; “non-managed” volume and data set backup and restore services, which can be used to meet special handling or retention requirements outside of the regular automated backups taken with FDRINC.

                                FDRCOPY allows you to copy or move data sets to/from one or more DASD

volumes using flexible data set selection criteria and powerful rename facilities when copying data sets to a new name. When used in conjunction with FDRINSTANT, FDRCOPY can create copies of 1000s of datasets in a matter of seconds.

This software renewal will provide the necessary system coverage to ensure that the mission critical Compensation Support Processing System maintains little or no down time. Without renewal, there is no guarantee that the IBM Z Series Compensation Support Processing System would provide accurate payroll processing and could directly affect the Department’s Employees.

Awarded contract 19AQMM21P0147 to COMPUWARE CORPORATION for 6984.00 on 2020-12-31.