SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- New DOT Headquarters IT Infrastructure ? SAN Storage Design
- Notice Date
- 11/17/2004
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541512
— Computer Systems Design Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Transportation, Office of the Secretary of Tranportation (OST) Procurement Operations, OST Acquisition Services Division, 400 7th Street SW, Room 5106, Washington, DC, 20590
- ZIP Code
- 20590
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-SAN1
- Response Due
- 11/29/2004
- Archive Date
- 12/14/2004
- Description
- The Department of Transportation?s (DOT) New Headquarters Building?s is sited on approximately 11 acres located in the Southeast Federal Center, at the intersection of M Street and New Jersey Ave, SE. It will be a two-tower building complex of 1.35M usable square feet connected through below-ground level floors. The new building has three major cost components: Core, warm building shell (exterior walls/windows/doors, floors, elevators, HVAC, utilities, life/safety); Tenant improvements/interior build-out (interior walls, lighting, carpet, systems furniture; IT infrastructure/common administrative services (all building network, telephony/VoIP, and other communications cabling, raised-floor data and command center areas, servers/routers, data back-up systems, secure areas, media center, roof antenna array, emergency cooling and generator power). DOT tenants at the new location will include approximately 5,600 government and contractor personnel. Common IT services and consolidated IT support for building tenants is planned. Operational services include data center computer systems hosting and administration, telephony, network infrastructure and monitoring services, help desk, seat management, information security, and secure facilities. In planning for the new building?s IT requirements it is important to identify and document various IT related requirements and functions associated with the standup, relocation and maintenance of DOT?s IT infrastructure and support assets at the new facility. The Office of the Secretary of Transportation, Office of the Chief Information Officer is seeking sources able to develop and document numerous and varied IT plans and implementation activities associated with the preparation for, migration to, and implementation at the new DOT headquarters building. This would involve: the research, collection, analysis, condensation, documentation, and reporting of required information and its supporting data; the creation and development of strategies, plans, designs, architectures, standard operational procedures, processes and their documentation for a varied array of IT activities; the review, documentation and integration of established and best practice IT services and support activities; the development and selection of IT planning, design and implementation alternatives, recommendations, and their supporting detail; and, the creation, compilation, and editing of data, information and materials necessary to adequately and accurately document and report results of these activities. Specific Requirements: The contractor would perform a review of the current storage infrastructure, analyze current and future storage requirements, design a minimum of three possible storage design architectures, and develop a detailed implementation plan. The contractor would complete the following activities and develop the following deliverables as part of the Storage Planning phase of the project: 1. Current DOT-ITS storage infrastructure overview 2. Requirements analysis a. Identify applications throughout the Department which would benefit from SAN storage and/or Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) i. 1 technical and 1 managerial meeting with each mode, arranged by DOT b. Detailed analysis of current and expected Departmental (DOT-ITS) requirements: i. file, email, database, application storage ii. off-site replication iii. Exchange and other databases backups iv. Common management platform for heterogeneous storage environment v. records management vi. building move c. Deliverables 1. list of people interviewed 2. list of Departmental and modal applications, to include: a. current state (meets needs, stable, obsolete hardware/software, etc.) b. storage requirements c. availability requirements d. performance requirements e. growth projections f. backup requirements g. COOP requirements 3. recommended follow-up interviews, if any 4. Analysis of compiled data and follow-up interviews a. Follow-up interviews as necessary b. Deliverable: for each application, provide SAN/HSM recommendation, to include SAN/HSM benefit, and SAN/HSM savings. For benefit, analyse and report on improvements related to application requirements as determined in 1b. For savings, project an ROI. 5. Architecture design a. Deliverables i. Preliminary description and diagrams of a minimum of 3 possible storage and HSM architectures, to include all necessary hardware and software. Architectures should be as distinct as possible, not minor variations on a theme. After DOT review, proceed to following deliverables. ii. Comparison matrix iii. Estimated useful life iv. Cost estimates for each architecture, projected 3 years forward v. Presentation of findings to DOT b. DOT analyzes proposed configurations and selects an architecture 6. Detailed implementation plan a. Deliverables i. business-level description ii. detailed description iii. detailed storage architecture diagram iv. detailed HSM implementation plan per application v. detailed storage implementation plan, to include: 1. installation of hardware and software 2. test plan 3. pilot plan 4. full data migration 5. growth strategy vi. detailed plan to migrate storage to the new building vii. training plan for DOT support staff 6. Close out and knowledge transfer a. Deliverables: b. Six itemized binders with all data collected, analysis, findings, and all prior deliverables i. Six soft copies of the binder information in CD format. ii. Review the binders with DOT personnel to ensure they understand and can easily locate all data collected, and understand basis for findings. All work described herein should be completed within 10 weeks. The engineers assigned to perform the analysis and design work must have significant experience designing and implementing storage systems in a large-scale, heterogeneous storage environment. The engineers must have relevant storage industry certifications. The contractor must provide examples of successful design and implementation using storage products from a variety of vendors. ONLY small business sources interested in this requirement should send relevant background information establishing technical ability and a description of their independence as a consultant, work performed as such, and methods to assure such independence and any commercial literature such as description of the services offered, and any other necessary information that demonstrates the above requirements can be met. Information should be submitted (two copies are requested) by 4:00 PM EST, November 29, 2004, to the Department of Transportation, OST Acquisition Services, 400 7th Street, SW, Room 5106, Washington, DC 20590, to the attention of Mark Welch. Sources are cautioned that only uniformed carriers (US Postal Service, FedEx, DHL, UPS, etc) are allowed access to the building. DOT will NOT accept email submissions and employees of DOT will NOT be responsible for retrieving submissions at the door. Sources MUST indicate whether they are 8a, HUBZONE certified, or a Service Disabled Veteran Owned small business under NAICS 541512. The Government does not intend to pay for information furnished in response hereto.
- Place of Performance
- Address: N/A
- Record
- SN00709381-W 20041119/041117211812 (fbodaily.com)
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