REMOTE ACCESS STORAGE The Postal Service has awarded on a sole source basis to EMC Corporation a contract to provide 500GB of storage in support of the Certificate Authority (CA) Program. The CA application will be hosted in the USPS' San Mateo, California Computer Operating Service Center (COSC) and will require a controller based concurrent backup copy of the data at the facility located in the USPS' Minneapolis, Minnesota COSC. This application is currently operating in a SUN/NT clustered environment. The requirement is for a fiber ready, mid-range (small footprint), program specific storage platform capable of extended range remote data copying all within a SUN clustered environment. This increased storage capacity is required on March 31, 2000 to support the initiation of this USPS program. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. NO SOLICITATION EXISTS. A determination by the USPS not to open the requirement to competition based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the USPS. Information received as a result of this notice will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a future competitive procurement. WEB: USPS Business Opportunities Bulletin (BOB), http://www.usps.com/business/wantad.htm. E-MAIL: Janet Crowe, Purchasing Specialist, jcrowe@email.usps.gov. Posted 03/29/00 (W-SN438985).

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