DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY, Internal Revenue Service, (M:P), 6009 Oxon Hill Road, Suite 700, Oxon Hill, MD 20745

70 -- RAID ARRAY FOR HEWLETT PACKARD 9000/K400 SOL TIRNO97Q00166 07J9J837A60 DUE 060597 POC Contract Specialist, Elva G. Hooper, 202-283-1183 The Internal Revenue Service intends to award a purchase order for the Raid Array for Hewlett Packard 9000/K400. The minimum specifications must be compatible with Hewlett Packard 9000/K400 under HP/UX 10.01 Operating System; 250GB Array in Single Cabinet (expandable to 440GB Array in Base Cabinet using 9GB (Maximum) Drives; Cabinet which consist of 19" Welded Frame Vertical Rack, RETMA Compliant, Capable of Supporting a Minimum of 1100# of Rack-Mountable Equipment, Vented Rear Door, Left Hinged, Filler Panels for Unused Equipment Slots, 30 Amp DC Power Controller, Each Occupied Equipment Shelf Configured with Minimum 2 Fans; Expandable to 1,500GB Array in Multiple Cabinets; Minimum of 28 High Performance Disks which consist of Maximum 9GB per Disk Formatted, Maximum Average Latency Time 4.17msec, Maximum Average Seek Times of 10msec Read (8msec Nominal)/ 11.5msec Write, 3.5" Drives, Areal Density of 800Mbits/square inch +/-, Magneto-resistive Heads, 1,000,000 hours MTBF, RLL 8/9 Recording Code, Ultara-SCSI; Redundant RAID Disk Array Controllers (2) which consist of Supports Hardware Based RAD 0,1,1+0,4, and 5 Operational Modes, Capable of a Minimum 6400 I/Os/sec, Capable of a Minimum 70MB/sec Sustained Throughput, Minimum 80MB/sec, 36-bit Internal Data Path, Supports Dual Controller Option for Load Sharing and "No Single Point of Failure", Supports Global Hot Spare Option for Automatic Rebuilding of Data, Supports up to 32 LUNs/Controller, Supports up to 1,500MB Array, Transparent to Host System; Requires no Software Drives, Minimum 4x32MB Data Cache Configured, Supports Minimum of 512MB SIMM-based Read/Write-Back Data Cache/Controller, Supports Minimum of 8 SCSI Disk Channels, Supports Minimum of 4 Fast/Wide SCSI Host Interfaces; 20MB/sec each, Supports Differential Interface Option, Supports Spanning, Partitioning, JBOD, and Pass-Through Device, Minimum 1024MB Main Memory Configured for K400; Hot Swappable Drive Canisters; Warranty which consist of the Controller for 3 years (Advance 48 Hour Hot Swap), the Disk Drives for 5 years (Advance 48 Hour Hot Swap), and the Cabinet Modules for 3 years. All responsible sources who can provide comparable equipment and maintenance services as described in the above requirements shall submit written quotations which shall include a price breakout which identifies separate prices for the purchase and maintenance equipment and provides technical specifications in sufficient detail to allow for a technical evaluation for acceptability. All other proposed costs must be clearly broken out and identified in the price quotation. The quotation also must provide FOB point, GSA contract number if applicable, payment terms, delivery dates(s), Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) if required in accordance with FAR Clause 52.204-3 (Mar 1994), and business size status (i.e., large, small, minority, or women-owned). No RFQ will be issued for this requirement. Request for such will not be considered responsive. All questions or quotations must be submitted in writing and can be mailed to the Contract Specialist at the address identified above or faxed to (202) 283-1511. Only quotations under 10 pages in length may be fascimiled. Quotations must be received by 2:00 p.m. EDT on the due date identified in the header of this announcement. Award will be made soon after receipt of quotations to the technically acceptable offeror providing the lowest price. This requirement is 100% set-aside for small business concerns. Please submit (two) 2 copies of your quote. (0164)

Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0320 19970617\70-0012.SOL)