Contracting Office Address: US Army CECOM Contracting Center, C4ISR Contracting Sector S, Attn: Building 61801, Fort Huachuca, AZ 85613-6000 The US Army is conducting a Request for Information (RFI) for a 24-Port Ferrule Connector (FC) Switch under Solicitation Number W9128Z-09-T-0200. NOTE: The use of a solicitation number in this RFI is for tracking purposes only. This RFI is for planning purposes only. This is not a request for Quotations or Proposals. No solicitation document exists and formal solicitation may or may not be issued by the Government as a result of the responses to this RFI. The Government will not be liable for payment of any response preparation expenses. Interested parties are responsible for adequately marking proprietary or competition sensitive information contained in their response. All interested firms that possess the capabilities addressed herein are encouraged to respond to this RFI. The government is seeking possible vendors and manufacturers that can provide a 24-Port FC Switch to be used as an environment to test patches, firmware and database upgrades, and performance testing that is compatible with existing government CISCO software/Operating System (OS) for a CISCO MDS 9134 Switch. Information Requirements are as follows: 1) Describe your Switch and demonstrate how it is compatible to the software and operating system noted above in a small narrative to include a product name and model number. 2) Describe your standard commercial warranty, and indicate if your switch when integrated with existing government software and equipment will void any warranty of the existing government software/equipment. 3) Describe the expandability of your 24-Port FC Switch. (The government anticipates a quantity of 1.) 4) Describe your power cables. (The government anticipates a quantity of 2.) 5) Describe your 4 Gigabyte-per-second shortwave small form-factor pluggable (SFP). (The government anticipates a quantity of 24.) 6) Describe your 24-Port switch rackmount kit. (The government anticipates a quantity of 6.) 7) Describe your optical 50-micron 2 Gigahertz per kilometer multimode local connector 15meter cables (The government anticipates a quantity of 6.) Please respond to all questions above. The information submitted should consist of no more than three pages using Microsoft WORD (product data literature is not included is this page limitation). In addition to the above, please include the following: 1) A cost estimate using anticipated quantities stated above. 2) Please indicate if you are a small business, and identify your small business status, size standard(s), number of employees and amount of annual receipts. Please include your current and complete company names, address, small business category and Cage Code on the front page. Technical questions and responses to this RFI must be submitted via e-mail. There is a 5 MB e- mail limit. Interested parties may forward questions and responses to Karen LaChance, Contract Specialist, at
[email protected], and Terri L. Harrison, Contracting Officer, at
[email protected] . If you choose to submit proprietary information, mark it accordingly. Provide the information specified above on or before 12:00 (noon) Arizona Time on January 27, 2009.