58 -- Sole Source procurement of DITECH Digital Echo Cancelling equipment

The Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Mt. Weather Emergency Operations Center (MWEOC), in Bluemont, VA intends to negotiate utilizing sole source procedures with Ditech Communications, Port Orange, FL to provide sixteen Gemini T-Shelves (for SX024 Digital Echo Canceller) and eight Single Extended Digital Echo Cancellers. Interested persons may respond by identifying their capability to provide the required items to include descriptive literature and pricing. Responses shall be in writing and sent to the address identified above, ATTN: Mrs. Debi Foster or sent electronically to [email protected]. Responses must be received no later than 4:30 p.m. on 08/23/05. This notice is not a request for competitive proposals. However, all responses received by the date identified above will be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement.