SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- GW Archive
- Notice Date
- 11/8/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 517910
— Other Telecommunications
- Contracting Office
- Library of Congress, Contracts Services, Contracts Section, 101 Independence Ave SE LA-325, Washington, DC, 20540-9411, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- CRS20070023
- Response Due
- 11/29/2006
- Archive Date
- 12/14/2006
- Description
- The Library of Congress intends to purchase through sole source from Messaging Architects, 180 Peel Street, Suite 333, Montreal, QC, H3C 2G7, for storage hardware, software, and support to implement and enterprise-wide email archive system. The Messaging Architects is the only vendor that sells GW Archive. They developed the product and provide support for it. The Messaging Architects works with Nexsan to provide support for the Assureon Storage device and integrate it with GW Archive. The Library of Congress intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the statutory authority of 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1); the regulatory authority is FAR 6.302-(1). Award is anticipated on November 30, 2006. It is the Library's belief that Messaging Architects is the only contractor presently qualified to provide this critical software without significant interruption of the operation of the Library's service, and aor significant duplication of effort and cost to the Government. This notice of intent in not a request for competitive proposals; however, any other company that is either legally incorporated as U.S. business entity, or is capable of demonstrating through its business plan its intention to fully incorporate as a U.S. business; and believes it can meet the performance requirements of the specifications noted above with signficant interruption of the operations of the Library's system, and with significant duplication of effort and cost to the Government, is invited to apply to the Library for consideration. All written proposals including capabilities/facilities statements and past performance summaries that are received within fifteen (15) days of date of publication of this synopsis will be considered by the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement, and a determination not to compete the proposed contract based upon responses to this notice remains solely within the discretion of the Govenment.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Washington DC
- Zip Code: 20540
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 20540
- Record
- SN01178587-W 20061110/061108221259 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)
| FSG Index | This Issue's Index | Today's FBO Daily Index Page |