THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE ONLY. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR QUOTE. The NCO 12, Great Lakes Acquisition Center, 115 S. 84th Street, Suite 101, Milwaukee, WI  53214, is performing market research to determine if there is a sufficient number of qualified: (1) Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB); (2) Veteran Owned Small Business (VOSB); or (3) Small or emerging small business firms, or (4) Large business firms, to provide four (4) rack mounted servers; six (6) drives; six (6) rack mount 19 Switch consoles; and five (5) Microsoft SQL licenses for the Clement J. Zablocki VAMC, 5000 W. National Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53295, as described below. General Requirements: BRAND NAME (DELL) OR EQUAL: Four (4) DELL PowerEdge R430 Rack Servers. SPECIFICATIONS: Item Specification Server Manufacturer and Model Dell PowerEdge R430 Rack Server Trusted Platform Module No Trusted Platform Module Chassis Configuration Chassis with up to four, 3.5 Hot Plug Hard Drives Processor Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 2.4GHz, 20M Cache, 8.00GT/s QPI,Turbo,HT,8C/16T (85W) Max Mem 1866MHz or equivalent Additional Processor Upgrade to two Intel® Xeon® E5-2630 v3 2.4GHz,20M Cache,8.00GT/s QPI,Turbo,HT,8C/16T (85W) or equivalent PCIe Riser Riser must have two x16 PCIe Gen3 LP slots Processor Thermal Configuration Must have 2 CPU Standard Memory DIMM Type and Speed Must have 2400 NT/s RDIMMs Memory Configuration Type Advanced ECC Memory Capacity At least eight 16GB RDIMM, 2400MT/s, Dual Rank, x8 Data Width RAID Configuration Must be RAID 1 for H330/H730/H730P (2 HDDs or SSDs) RAID Controller PERC H330 RAID Controller or better Hard Drive At least three 4TB 7.2K RPM NLSAS 12Gbps 512n, 3.5 hot-plug hard drive Network Card On-board Broadcom 5720 Quad Port 1Gb LOM or equivalent Additional Network Card Intel Ethernet I350 QP 1Gb Server Adapter, Low Profile or equivalent Systems Management iDRAC8 Enterprise, integrated Dell Remote Access Controller, Enterprise or equivalent Internal Drive none Bezel No bezel Rack Rails Must have Ready Rails Sliding Rails without cable management Performance Management BIOS Setting Performance BIOS Setting Power Supply Dual, Hot-plug, Redundant Power Supply (1+1), 550W required Operating System Must have Windows Server® 2012R2,Standard Ed, Factory Inst, No MED,2SKT,2VM,NO CAL Operating System Media Kit Must have Windows Server® 2012R2,STD Ed, Media Kit w/Factory Inst STD DGRD Images  Client Access Licenses Must have 5-pack of Windows® Server 2012 User CALs (Standard or Datacenter)  Hardware Support Services At least 7 Year Next Business Day On-site Service  Keep Your Hard drive At least 7 years BRAND NAME (INTEL) OR EQUAL: Six (6) Intel Solid-State Drives P3520 Series, 2 TB PCIe. SPECIFICATIONS: Part Number SSDPEDMX020T701 Product Type Solid state drive Storage Capacity 2 TB Drive Type Internal Drive Interface PCI express 3.0 x4 (NVMe) Maximum Read Transfer Rate 1.66 GB/s Maximum Write Transfer Rate 1.32 GB/s Encryption Standard 256-bit AES Warranty 5 years BRAND NAME (TRIPP LITE) OR EQUAL: Six (6) Tripp Lite Rackmount KVM Switch Consoles. SPECIFICATIONS: Part Number B040-016-19 Number of Ports 16 Rack Space 1U Display 19 LCD Resolution 1366x768 BRAND NAME (MICROSOFT) OR EQUAL: Five (5) Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Standard Core Licenses. SPECIFICATIONS: Part Number 7NQ-00599 Category License License Quantity Two cores Licensing Program Microsoft Select, Microsoft Select Plus Platform Windows All interested firms who can meet the requirements stated above should respond, in writing, INCLUDING ALL OF THE FOLLOWING: Company name. Address. Point of contact (name/title/telephone number/e-mail address). SEWP Contract number, if applicable. DUNS number. Tax ID number. Indication of which business category (SDVOSB, VOSB, Small Business or Large Business) for which the organization qualifies. A capability statement that addresses the organizations qualifications and ability to provide the requirement depicted above. Submit responses to the Contracting Officer, Thomas Chesak, at [email protected] no later than 10:00 a.m. (Central Standard Time), 26 April 2017. VA69D-17-N-0966 Servers-Drives-Consoles-Licenses for Milwaukee VAMC shall be referenced on all correspondence regarding this announcement. TELEPHONIC INQUIRIES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. The NAICS Code 334111, Electronic Computer Manufacturing, is applicable to this acquisition; the size standard is 1,250 employees. Interested firms are reminded that in accordance with FAR 4.12, prospective contractors shall complete electronic annual representations and certifications in conjunction with FAR 4.11 required registration in the Systems for Award Management (SAM) database prior to award of a contract. The Government will use responses to this notice to make an appropriate acquisition decision. This is the only notice, no other copies of this notice will be provided.

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