The National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center, has a need to obtain maintenance support, training, and enhanced capabilities for the Multimodality Radiology Image Processing System (MRIPS) on the National Institutes of Health Bethesda Maryland campus and satellite campuses in Baltimore Maryland and Washington DC. The Contractor shall furnish, as required, software maintenance, hardware maintenance, training, installation and other services in support of the NIH the Multimodality Radiology Image Processing System. The NIH Multimodality Radiology Image Processing System (MRIPS), consists of the following: a. AFS (Andrew File System) - based data servers consisting of a combination of seven (7) superSPARC CPUs with approximately 350 Gbyte of magnetic disk storage; one (1) SPARC station 2 AFS/ AFP gateway; one (1) superSP ARC station 20/61 AFS/NFS gateway; one (I) HP 9000/730 AFS-client database and Kerberos server; associated networking and communication subsystems; and other miscellaneous peripherals. b. A set of three (3) hierarchical storage management (HSM) servers consisting of superSPARC station CPUs and, respectively, a 350 GbytE DISC magneto-optical jukebox, a 1 Tbyte ATL DLT jukebox, and two (2) 50 Mb StorageTEK DAT carousels. c. Numerous AFS-based and NFS-based workstations consisting of SPARC stations and superSPARC stations running both Sun OS 4.I.x and Solaris 2.x, DEC station 5000s running Ultrix, DEC station Alphas running DEC UNIX, HP 700s running HP-UX, SGI workstations running IRIX, and Pentiums running LINUX. d. Special data set transfer, format conversion, and data-management routines including Kerberos-based security mechanisms and a data set registry. e. The MEDx and MEDx II image processing software packages, consisting of special medically-related image handling and processing modules developed on behalf of NIH. A firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity task order type contract is contemplated. The Government anticipates that the total life of the contract shall not exceed 60 months. The base period of performance will be 12 months from the date of award. Thereafter, the contract shall be renewable as provided in FAR 52.217-9, Option to Extend the Term of the Contract. This solicitation is being issued as a 100 percent small business set-aside and will contain the following North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and Size Standard: NAICS 541511, Size Standard: $21 million dollars. The National Institutes of Health anticipates that the RFP will be available approximately ten (10) days from the posted date of this notice. The closing date will be approximately fifteen (15) days after release of the RFP. This requirement will be awarded using the procedures prescribed under FAR Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items. A copy of the RFP may be obtained by submitting a written request to: National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center, Office of Purchasing and Contracts, Attn: Julius Y. Tidwell, Contracting Officer, 10 Center Drive, Room 1N262, MSC 1189, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1189 or e-mail
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