EMC Hardware and Software Maintenance

Synopsis: The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) intends to award a firm fixed price task order for a period of 1 year under the authority of FAR 16.505(b)(2)(i)(B) - Only one awardee is capable of providing the supplies or services required at the level of quality required because the supplies or services ordered are unique or highly specialized. EMC is the only responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. The sole source requirement was competed among IT re-sellers on the NASA SEWP GWAC contract vehicle. The awardee is Blue Tech Inc., 2251 San Diego Ave, San Diego, CA 92110-2926. The task order will be awarded against Blue Tech's NASA SEWP GWAC contract. This is Notice of Intent to award this order to Blue Tech Inc. This is not a request for competitive bids. FHFA's Office of Technology and Information Management (OTIM) has a requirement to purchase renewals of yearly software and hardware maintenance agreements in order to maintain FHFA's EMC SAN. The EMC SAN is the primary repository for all of the agency's data to include email, documents, and databases. The renewal of the maintenance agreements will ensure that FHFA has vendor support in case problems arise. In addition, this maintenance renewal is required for on-site engineers to maintain current security requirements, service level agreements, and to continue to provide operating system updates and improvements to critical systems. See attached Justification.