D--Special Notice of Sole Source Contract Action

Under the authority of FAR 13.106-1 (b), the U.S. Army RDECOM Acquisition Center, Natick Contracting Division, Natick, MA intends to award a Firm Fixed Price Purchase Order to QUANTUM CORPORATION located in Dallas Texas for a one year of hardware support for a Quantum Tape Drive system. Nothing herein should be misconstrued as a request for proposal. No solicitation document is available. Urgency is the circumstance of why only one source reasonably available. This tape drive system is the primary back-up system for the Network Enterprise System at the Natick Soldiers System Center in Natick, MA. The system is over 5 years old and is currently without a Hardware Support agreement. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement in the future. Interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to this requirement to the U.S. Army RDECOM Acquisition Center, Natick Contracting Division, via e-mail at [email protected] no later than 23 November 2009, 12:00 pm EDT.