VA has issued a sources sought related to Premium maintenance support for Dell EMC/Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) vBlock Systems 340.
VISN 8 purchased eight Dell EMC/VCE vBlock systems 340 in 2014 which consists of virtualization software, blade servers, switches, and storage devices which constitutes the Converged Infrastructure (CVI). There are eight sites currently utilizing this CVI to support server virtualization operations, site Files Shares, critical medical and administrative systems. There are three large systems located at Gainesville, Tampa and Lakemont/Orlando and five small systems located at Bay Pines, Miami, San Juan, West Palm Beach and Lake Nona/Orlando.
Responses are due February 13, 2018.