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COTS Ceph Storage Cluster Expansion

Department of Energy · PRINCETON LAB - DOE CONTRACTOR
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Solicitation details

Solicitation number
RFQ-260026002
Notice type
Solicitation
NAICS
334112
Product service code
7K20
Set-aside
No Set aside used
Posted
2026-08-14
Response deadline
Aug 19, 2026, 8:30 PM UTC
Place of performance
Princeton, NJ
Contracting contact
mzara@pppl.gov

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Statement of work, as posted

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), managed and operated by Princeton University under Prime Contract DE-AC02-09CH11466 with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), is soliciting firm-fixed-price proposals for the provision of enterprise COTS Seagate storage drives, high-density server hardware, gateway nodes, and specialized deployment services for an expanded highperformance Ceph Storage Cluster.

Contact

Point of contact
Marissa Zara
Role
not stated on this notice — SAM publishes a role for only about 5% of them, so this may be a contract specialist rather than the contracting officer
Email
mzara@pppl.gov
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