Apple Workstations and Notebooks

Description(s): Sources-Sought Synopsis: This is a Sources-Sought Synopsis. The Air Force Test Center (AFTC), PZRB Edwards AFB, CA is seeking sources with demonstrated expertise and experience to meet the following requirement for a contract to provide the following products. REQUIREMENTS: AFRL/RQOF needs new complete Apple Mac Pro graphic arts work stations that meet the below requirements. The industry life expectancy of this equipment is three years but is also determined by how they are used. The following configurations are required: -- Two Mac Pro (6c/64gb/1TB/D700), (Intel Xeon E5 with 12MB L3 cache and Turbo Boost up to 3.9GHz), 3.5GHz 6-core with 12MB of L3 cache, 64GB (4x16GB) of 1866MHz DDR3 ECC, 1TB PCIe-based flash storage, Dual AMD FirePro D700 GPUs with 6GB of GDDR5 VRAM each, User's Guide (English), Software: Mac OSX, iMovie, iPhoto, GarageBand, pages, numbers, keynote -- Two Mac Pro (Z0PK) (4c/32gb/512gb/D500), (Intel Xeon E5 with 10MB L3 cache and Turbo Boost up to 3.7GHz), 3.7 GHz quad core with 10MB of L3 cache, 32GB (4x8GB) of 1866MHz DDR3 ECC, 512 TB PCIe-based flash storage, Dual AMD FirePro D500 GPUs with 3GB of GDDR5 VRAM each, User's Guide (English), Software: Mac OSX, iMovie, iPhoto, GarageBand, iLife -- One MacBook Pro 15-inch w/ Retina Display: 2.5GHz Quad-core Intel, Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.7GHz (MJLT2LL/A), 16GB 1600MHz memory, 512GB PCIe-based flash storage, Intel Iris Pro Graphics+ AMD Radeon R9 M370X (2GB RAM), Built-in battery (8 hrs Force Touch trackpad, Backlit Keyboard (English) & User's Guide, Accessory Kit, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, MACOS X 4 Ea Apple Thunderbolt Display 4 Ea Apple USB Keyboard w/numeric Keypad 4 Ea Apple USB Mouse 4 Ea OWC Slim USB2 Portable Blu-Ray 6X Burner External Bus Powered Solution with Roxio Toast 11 Ti+HD 5 x AppleCare Protection Plan for Mac Pro (MD008LL/A) / Total of 3 years Hardware Warranty / System Level Telephone Support /Includes support for 1 Apple branded display. The estimated delivery date is 31 August 2016. Responses shall include sufficient information to demonstrate the capability of delivering the required workstations as part of a qualification package. The statement of capability shall include relevant background and experience, with contract numbers, names and telephone numbers of contracting office and technical office point of contacts (POCs) for each contract. Please note that this synopsis is for planning purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation for competitive bids/proposals and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government. Firms responding to this notice must reference solicitation # F1SRQ46167B001 and indicate whether or not that they are a small business concern as defined in FAR 52.219-1. The NAICS code is 334111. The Small Business size standard is 1,000 employees. The information received as a result of this synopsis will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. A determination by the Air Force not to open the requirement to open competition, based on responses to this sources sought synopsis, is solely within the discretion of the Air Force. The Government does not intend to pay for any information provided under this sources sought synopsis.