W -- Lease of Storage Area Network Equipment

Washington Headquarters Services, Acquisition and Procurement Office intends to award a sole source contract to EMC Corporation, 844 Westpark Drive Suite 700, McLean VA 22102, under authority of FAR 6.302-1. The requirement is for lease-to-own of DMX Storage Equipment and accompanying software and warranty. These products are mission essential requirements for operation and optimization of critical information storage systems supporting Continuity of Operations (COOP) for the Department of Defense (DoD). EMC is the original manufacturer of 100% of our existing enterprise ESAN equipment, which is comprised entirely of DMX storage devices with a total capacity in excess of 1.9 Petabytes. The additional storage devices being sought in this lease will be used to meet the data storage requirements of DCIN's customers. Complete and full interoperability with current storage systems is paramount to the DoD COOP mission. See Note 22.