Notice ID: 246-23-Q-147
Description
The Indian Health Service (IHS) Oklahoma City Area Office has a need to backup and protect the server infrastructure and data. We are currently using backup software called Microsoft DPM. This product performs backup to disk as well as tape drives. These tapes are then taken to an offsite facility for disaster recovery. We have 6 field facilities, plus the Area Office, using the Microsoft product. This product has no software support, is out of date, and does not offer any new features. We are looking to replace our backup software. We need software that can replicate backup data to other facilities, and provide us a disaster recovery solution. This would also provide us the ability to have an entire Oklahoma City Area Disaster Recovery plan. Our plan is to acquire a modern backup software package before the end of FY23. We are using currently using Microsoft DPM to backup to data and tape that has no vendor support.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
The contractor shall supply:
- Backup Software must be able to do backups and do replication.
- The backup software has to work on-premises.
- Software must work with 2019 or 2022 Windows Server and Microsoft Hyper-V.
- Backup Software must have vendor support for technical issues and software updates.
- Software must have the ability to do tape backups and restore, with Spectra Logic Tape Libraries.
- Backup software, must be able to communicate with Spectra Tape Libraries, using SAS interfaces.
- Software must have replication option.
- Contractor must provide Backup Software only, NO backup Appliances needed.
- Contractor should provide backup software that will be installed on the local facility’s server.
