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The contract involves the Internal Revenue Service's intent to award a delivery order under an existing agreement to enhance the resiliency of Unisys QProcessor appliances used in the IRS’s Enterprise Computing Centers located in Martinsburg, VA, and Memphis, TN. These appliances are part of the critical infrastructure that handles Integrated Data Retrieval System (IDRS) traffic, with IBM's WebSphere MQ serving as the interface between IBM and Unisys mainframes. Due to the essential role of the QProcessor in message processing, the IRS has installed backup units to provide redundancy across production and disaster recovery partitions. However, current recovery procedures require manual intervention by staff. The purpose of this acquisition is to implement full resiliency by automating recovery, reducing outage recovery time, preserving active messages, and maintaining session continuity after failover. The procurement will include additional hardware and contract services, specifically featuring EMC VNX 5300 disk array components, with a brand name justification that excludes consideration of alternatives to meet the Government’s technical needs. While the acquisition is justified for other than full and open competition, all responsible sources are invited to submit capability statements, proposals, or quotations for consideration. The contract is associated with solicitation number q3qf0100u14000, posted in September 2013, with the place of performance in Oxon Hill, Maryland. The contracting officer overseeing this action is Harry Haraseyko, available at the provided contact information.

General Info

IRS contract awards delivery for automating Unisys QProcessor backup recovery, enhancing appliance resiliency.

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NAICS

334111 - Electronic Computer Manufacturing

Place of Performance

6009 Oxon Hill Road, OXON HILL, MD, 20745, USA

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PostedSep 18

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Harry HaraseykoContracting Officer

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Full Description

This is a notice of IRS's intent to award a delivery order containing a Brand Name description under an existing contract. 1 Background The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) operates Enterprise Computing Centers in Martinsburg, VA (ECC-MTB), and in Memphis, TN (ECC-MEM). In each Center, Unisys Dorado 780 mainframe processors run a tax processing application called the Integrated Data Retrieval System (IDRS). Recently the IRS migrated all IDRS production traffic to a new configuration that is based on IBM's WebSphere MQ and which serves as an interface between the IBM and Unisys mainframes. To address performance issues, Unisys elected to offload a portion of MQ message processing on to a new device integrated into the mainframe, called a QProcessor. The QProcessor is now functioning in the critical path of IDRS traffic. Because of its critical role, the IRS installed backup QProcessor appliances for all of the production and DR partitions. This provides a measure of resiliency; however the current process for recovery is manual, requiring intervention by Database Administrators or by computer operators. The objective of this acquisition is to implement full resiliency on the Unisys QProcessor appliances that operate on the IRS Production and DR partitions in the Memphis and Martinsburg Computing Centers. In addition to reducing the time to recover from an outage, the proposed technology will also store all active messages and attempt to recover all open sessions after failing over to the backup QProcessor. This will require additional hardware and contract services. It is anticipated that the following brand name items will be purchased: - EMC VNX 5300 disk array components 2. Brand Name Justification The use of a Brand name description is essential to the Government's requirements, thereby precluding consideration of a product manufactured by another company. Reference the attached u14 JOFOC (Justification for Other Than Full and Open Competition) document. All responsible sources may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation, which shall be considered by the agency.