Description
The United States General Services Administration (GSA), Federal Supply Service (FSS) Pacific Rim is interested in receiving White Papers in the area of business continuity (BC)/disaster recovery (DR) services for information technology (IT) systems in the continental United States (CONUS) and overseas, which include the following integrated components: - Alternate sites (IT data centers and offices) for mainframe systems, midrange systems, servers, workstations, and network components - Data recovery services including, but not limited to, electronic vaulting and disk mirroring - IT systems (i.e., hot sites) including, but not limited to, MVS-based IBM mainframes; UNIX-based HP, IBM, and SUN midrange systems; and Windows 2000/NT/XP-based servers and workstations - Network recovery services for wide area networks, local area networks, and the Internet - Technical and operational support services including, but not limited to, at time of testing and recovery - Voice recovery services GSA FSS Pacific Rim is also interested in White Papers regarding the following BC/DR services and supplies that could be provided independent of the integrated services referenced above: - BC/DR consulting services - BC/DR software tools - Data recovery services - Off-site tape storage This Request for Information (RFI) is issued solely for information purposes. It does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP) or a promise to issue an RFP in the future. This request for information does not commit the Government to a contract. Further, GSA is not seeking proposals, and will not accept unsolicited proposals or cost and pricing data. Industry organizations are advised that the U.S. Government will not pay for any information or administrative cost incurred in response to this RFI. All costs associated with responding to this RFI will be the sole responsibility of the industry organization. Industry organizations participating in this effort should submit White Papers and other supporting materials electronically to the e-mail address provided below. All submissions will be treated as business confidential material, become Government property, and will not be returned. Responses are requested by Friday, March 12, 2004.