Recovery- Checkpoint Provider-1 Server Appliance

RECOVERY - The Social Security Administration (SSA) intends to fund the proposed action via the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Pub. L. 111-5) (Recovery Act). The agency provides this notice for informational purposes only. SSA provides services to American public, federal and state agencies through the National Computer Center (NCC) and the Second Support Center (SSC). The NCC, which opened in 1980, has been in continuous operation as a data center for more than 30 years. Many of the NCC's facility infrastructure systems are well past their designed life cycle. Without a long-term replacement, the NCC will deteriorate to the point that a major failure to the building systems could jeopardize our ability to handle our increasing workloads without interruption. The objective of this program is to ensure the continued viability of SSA's data center infrastructure by migrating all IT services from the existing NCC to a new data center. The proposed action is only available to Checkpoint authorized reseller contractors under the under the General Services Administration Federal Supply Schedule Contract. The agency intends to issue a firm fixed-price delivery order, following the procedures of FAR 8.405-1(c)(1), for: 1) Provider-1 Smart-1 50 Multi-Domain Appliance to fulfill part of our requirement for maintaining our status as a Trusted Internet Connection Access Provider (TICAP) as per the OMB Memorandums, and 2) Standard Support and Software Subscription. This notice is for informational purposes only; contractors should not respond.