The closing date for the tender is August 18, 2006 and requires three key deliverables: information and intelligence management relating to alleged breaches, management of investigations and evidence management.

The successful tenderer will provide costing scenarios for data storage of 12, 20 and 40 terabytes split across two DEWR sites and must also provide archive and back-up models.

Documents stipulate the system must integrate with single sign-on using Windows and Active directory, comply with two-factor authentication and SQL Server and be compatible with the Windows Kerberos authentication system.

Request for tender documents obtained by Computerworld state the department has no estimates on the projected annual growth rate of data, nor the number of servers needed and as this is the first EDS (electronic data systems) project for the department, tenderers are also invited to outline the best scenario for the D2D2T (disk to disk to tape) exchange.

"There are now only 43 servers to be connected to the EDS at site A (primary) and only 13 servers to be connected to the EDS at site B (disaster recovery) via Fibre Channel," according to the RFT documents.