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Page 6 of 6 Page 6 of 6 Request for Information Brand Name or Equal Palantir Business Intelligence Tool THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI), ONLY, issued in accordance with Federal Acquisition Reg... Page 6 of 6 Page 6 of 6 Request for Information Brand Name or Equal Palantir Business Intelligence Tool THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI), ONLY, issued in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation 15.201(e), for the purpose of conducting market research. Accordingly, this RFI constitutes neither a Request for Proposal (RFP) nor a promise to issue an RFP in the future, and it does not commit the Government to contract for any supply or service described herein. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is not, at this time, seeking proposals and therefore, will not accept, review or evaluate unsolicited proposals received in response hereto. Please be advised that the U.S. Government will not reimburse Respondents for any costs incurred in the preparation and/or submission of responses to this RFI; all costs associated with responding to this RFI will solely be at the Respondent s expense. Companies are encouraged to respond if they have the capability and/or capacity to provide the items identified below. Not responding to this RFI does not preclude participation in any future RFP, if issued. Any information submitted by respondents to this RFI is strictly voluntary; however, any information received shall become the property of the Government and will not be returned to the Respondent. Interested parties are responsible for adequately and clearly marking proprietary, restricted, or competition sensitive information contained in their response. PRODUCT REQUIREMENTS The Veterans Health Administration seeks to acquire multi-functional production copiers to replace two units currently in service. These machines are used by the Communications Service to support the VA Healthcare System for all high-volume printing needs to include training manuals, educational books, flyers, pamphlets and posters for both Veterans and staff. These two units will have the Base Period s Maintenance included in the proposed pricing. There are also four Option Periods included for the continuation of maintenance on the two units. CLIN Brand or Equal Description Quantity 0001 Cannon ImagePRESS C810 1 0002 Cannon ImagePRESS C810 (Long Sheet) 1 SALIENT CHARACTERISTICS GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS Must be new equipment, not remanufactured or used and must be Trade Agreement Act Compliant Must run at a minimum of 80 letter images per minute on stocks up to 80 lb. Cover Must have the ability to allow printing at rated speeds on uncoated stocks up to 130 lb. Cover Must have three standard feeding sources that hold up to 550 sheets (20 lb. Bond) each and support stocks from 3.94" x 5.83" to 13" x 19.2" and 14 lb. Bond to 110 lb. Cover Must support stocks up to 13 x 19.2" in size and 130 lb. Cover in weight Must have the ability to auto duplex stocks up to 130 lb. Cover in weight Must have the ability to support stocks up to 51.2 in length Must have a minimum paper capacity of 7,650 sheets from 6 different paper drawers Contract Line Item Number (CLIN) 0001 Must have a minimum paper capacity of 5,150 sheets from 4 different paper drawers CLIN 0002- Long Sheet Must be able to use various brands of media including uncoated, coated, envelopes, textured, specialty, and synthetic stocks Must have the ability to detect and prevent multiple sheets from entering the press Must be able to replace toner and paper without stopping the press Must have a print resolution of 2400 x 2400 dpi Must use a RED Vertical-cavity Surface-emitting Laser to create images on the drum Must use a 32-beam imaging laser where every dot is imaged twice on the drum Developer unit must precisely control internal environment and airflow to help maintain consistent, high-quality images across print runs Toner level gauges must be displayed in one-percent increments Must utilize a flexible transfer belt that aids in proper toner laydown helping ensure full coverage on textured and embossed stocks Must have the ability to print all transfer voltage settings on multiple sheets to quickly and easily locate the optimal secondary transfer media parameter Must utilize a translucent toner that allows the properties of the media to show through and help match the quality of the toner across the entire sheet Must have a front to back registration of +/- 1.0 mm Must utilize a compact registration method where the paper buckle is moved forward and is slowly released to help prevent misregistration Must have a way to scan a test sheet on the copy glass to quickly adjust front to back registration Must have the ability to manipulate any corner individually to improve front to back registration Must incorporate an advanced twin belt fusing method that utilizes induction heating and cooling technology helping to allow high efficiency when switching for mixed media jobs Fusers must not use oil Must have the ability to automatically match the gloss level of the media to the printed image Must measure 20 different color patches (five of each color channel) at least between every 86 sheets to ensure color consistency this must not require operator intervention Must have an automated method to preform press calibration (linearization) Must support a duty cycle of 500,000 letter impressions and an average monthly volume of 157,000 letter impressions First copy output time for a color print must be 7.7 seconds or faster The warm up time after turning the press on must be six minutes or faster Must have the ability to have common parts be easily replaced by an operator Must be restricted of hazard substances (RoHS) Compliant Toner bottle must be recyclable Must not have any Volatile Organic Compounds in consumables Must meet ENERGY STAR standards with reduced power consumption and must be rated EPEAT Gold Must Include Electronic Systems Protection Next Generation Power Filter for Marking Engine Must provide Hard Drive Replacement Service COPYING AND SCANNING Must have a minimum scan speed of 230 originals per minute (opm) (B&W) and 150 opm (color) at 300 dpi Must have the ability to scan originals at least 600 dots per inch Automatic Document Feeder must have a minimum paper capacity of 300 sheets Automatic Document Feeder must scan both sides of the sheet in a single pass Must have a double sheet detection feature that will halt scanning if more than one sheet is fed at one time Automatic Document Feeder must support up to 80 lb. Cover and 12" x 17" originals for simplex and duplex scanning Must have the ability to create scan templates that can retrieve commonly used parameters FINISHING ACCESSORIES All vendor owned and third-party accessories must communicate back to the main engine on its status Must have the ability to produce multiple types of folds in-line, including Z-fold, C-fold, letter fold out, and half fold. Folding unit must receive power from finisher Must be equipped with a finisher that can stack up to 5,000 sheets with inline joggers for neat straight or offset stacking Must have the ability to corner or double side staple up to 100 sheets Must have the ability to 2- or 3-hole punch stocks up to 110 lb. Cover in weight Must have an in-line booklet maker that can create 100-page booklets (25 sheets) on paper sizes up to 13" x 19.2" and support weights up to 110 lb. Cover Booklet maker must have saddle press technology to help flatten booklets before stacking PRINT SERVER Must use Fiery print server Processor: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz up to 3.6GHz W/ Turbo Memory: 8 GB Hard Drive: 2 TB OS: Windows 10 Must process jobs using the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) Print Engine Raster Image Processor (RIP) then print, print while RIP, streaming multi job processing Streaming - ability to print, receive, and erase jobs all at the same time Must support PostScript level 3, PDF 1.7, PDF/X, Personalized Print Markup Language, and PDF/VT PDLs Must have the ability to manage jobs in a hold and print queue, edit job parameters, and optimize system and color settings from a single application Must have the ability to have multiple PDF files dropped into marked folders where a predefined job template is automatically applied and sent to the digital press Must have the ability to configure specific File-Print submission process for an output device so users don t have to specify print settings for multiple jobs Must have the ability to create, edit, and optimize spot and named colors Must have the ability to impose a booklet via an intuitive step by step wizard Must offer on-the-fly correction of individual images without the need to go back to the original design files Must securely overwrite a deleted job at least three times preventing further access Must have the ability to view the Natural-language user interface directly on the monitor connected to the front-end controller (Unity Display) Must have the ability to create and optimize medias, assign a media to a drawer, open/lock a drawer, and organize them into groups for easy location from a single intuitive interface that directly connects to the digital press (Media Librarian) Must Provide Furniture stand with 27 monitor, mouse, proximity sensor, auto- adjustable height and tilt, and optimized cable management Must have X-Rite i1PRO spectrophotometer Must have Spot-on license SERVICE AND TRAINING Toner Inclusive Maintenance to begin on day of installation Must only charge one click price for actual usage and color click must be the same charge regardless of coverage percentage 11x17/12 x 18 prints counts as one click Must have a four-hour average onsite response time for service; Supplies must be delivered within 48 hours of being ordered Must be provided from an Authorized vendor and include genuine supplies and parts. Maintenance must include toner, staples, parts, onsite labor The Contractor shall provide comprehensive Operator Training along with Print Controller Training All delivery, installation, and training are to be included with quoted price CONTRACT MANAGEMENT The Contractor shall designate a Project Manager with full authority to interact with the VAMC points of contact The project manager shall be available for meetings, telephone calls, and emails as needed throughout the life of the contract. The Contractor shall ship all necessary equipment to location and POC as stated in section 5.0. The Contractor shall invoice VA financial service center via Tungsten in a timely manner per established contract. Additionally, if your company sells products on a Federal Supply schedule or GWAC contract, please indicate such, along with your contract number and business size designation. Submissions are due NO LATER THAN November 21, 2019 at 3:00 p.m. and may be made by emailing a response to: William.Freer@va.gov. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION. Do not submit a proposal or quote. Contracting Office Address: Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Acquisition Operations Technology Acquisition Center 23 Christopher Way Eatontown, New Jersey 07724 Primary Point of Contact: William Freer Contract Specialist Email: William.Freer@va.gov