Health Adminstration Center (HAC) Storage and Server Augmentation (Cisco Unified Computing System servers, and NetApp Disk Array Enclosures, licenses, and and associated services)

A firm-fixed-price delivery order was issued under the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) V, Governmentwide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) on December 20, 2017, to obtain Cisco Unified Computing System (USC) servers, licenses, and switches; and NetApp Disk Array Enclosures (DAE) equipment, licenses, and associated support services. This requirement is for VA, Office of Information and Technology (OI&T), Information Technology Operations and Services (ITOPS). This procurement will expand the storage and computing capacity of the FlexPod Converged Virtualization Infrastructures (CVI) at the Denver Health Access Center (HAC) and the Atlanta Health Eligibility Center (HEC), its disaster recovery and alternative operating location. The FlexPod is a Cisco proprietary integrated virtualization, computing, and storage solution composed of NetApp and Cisco proprietary products, with brand name or equal cabling and accelerator hardware. This effort will expand existing storage system capabilities, allowing HAC and HEC ITOPS managed facilities in Region 6 to fully support the datacenter virtualization of the Veteran Access, Choice and Accountability Act of 2014 (CHOICE) dedicated Servers and associated databases used in processing payment transactions and secure data in redundant, High-Available systems capable of fault tolerances that are compliant with contingency planning regulations. This procurement allows VA to modify existing systems to virtualize storage and computing space required for use by existing and future applications in direct support of VA Chief Business Office, CHOICE, and community care payment system. It will allow VA to perform analytics and development environment for application upgrades, which directly supports CHOICE and Patient Care, in order to be compliant with National Institute of Standards 800-53 Contingency Planning and Media Protection requirements.