CADE2 Infrastructure Support DASD

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to award a delivery order containing a Brand Name description under an existing contract. It is anticipated that the following equipment will be purchased. 48 Terabytes of effective DASD capacity and associated software for use by CADE 2. The CADE 2 application requires 48 TB of DASD electrically and logically compatible with an installed IBM DS-8800, including the following software/compatible software: Hyper Parallel Access Volumes (HyperPAV), Parallel Access Volumes (PAV), High Performance FICON (z/HPF), and Global Mirror software to provide asynchronous long-distance data replication, storage array performance management, and Point in Time copies of entire logical volumes, datasets, and databases. This synopsis is a notice of intent to issue an award under other than full and open competition and should not be considered a request for competitive proposals. The determination of the Government not to open subject requirement to full and open competition was made in accordance with FAR 6.302-1 and 41 U.S.C.253(c)(1) and is solely at the discretion of the Government. Award is anticipated no later than 01 September 2012