D -- Intent to Sole Source

Notice of intent to negotiate a sole source contract with EMC Corporation for Maintenance Service Support for EMC Software and Hardware equipment. The Department of Commerce (DOC), Office of Computer Services (OCS) has the need for maintenance support for EMC Symmetrix 8830 equipment and software used to support a wide variety of customers. This is used to support the workload at the OCS that is running on the IBM Enterprise servers and for storage of our financial data warehouse system processed on a SUN server in support of the Department of Homeland Security and for the requirement to provide enterprise storage with proper backups for the over 100 Windows servers that are used at OCS. The hardware and software were installed in 2005 for the support of OCS?s variety of database applications. The period of performance will be April 1, 2008 through 30 September 2009 with 3 option periods starting 1 October 2008 and ending 30 September 2011. This acquisition will be negotiated in accordance with FAR Part 13 and has an estimated value of less than $1,000,000.