The White House Communications Agency (WHCA) intends to award a sole source purchase order to General Dynamics, C4 Systems, 1306 Concourse Drive, Suite 310, Linthicum, MD 21090. The services required by this purchase order is to provide On-Site Training classes for TACLANE Operator & GEM Systems located on Anacostia Annex, DC. The principal effort will teach operators to install, configure and maintain TACLANE & GEM encryptors in an operational enviorment. Thesr interactive, (5) Five-day courses combines classroom presentations and hands-on excercises to give operator practical experience. General Dynamics C4 Systems is the only known source that is able to provide the necessary level of support in conjunction with the high level of security needed for this requirement without risk of delay or mission impact. This synopsis is a notice of intent to issue an award that is other than full and open competition and should not be considered a request for competitive quotations. The determination of the Government not to open this requirement to full and open competition was made IAW 6.302-1 and 10 U.S.C. 2304 (c) 1 and is solely at the discretion of the Government. Interested persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement NO LATER THAN 07 APR 03 or 7 days following the publication of this notice no later than 2:00 p.m. EST to Warren Riley, Code: AQN3, by fax (202) 757-5264, or email
[email protected]. Award is anticipated in 8 April 2003.