Notice of Intent to Award Sole Source: Dell Hardware Extended Warranty Support

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention intends to award a sole source firm fixed price purchase order to Sterling for Dell hardware extended warranty support. The Centers for Disease Control's Office of Advanced Molecular Detection manages the agency's High Performance Computing Center of Excellence, which includes extensive computing, network and storage resources to support CDC's scientific and public health mission. These high-performance computing resources are used by the majority of CDC's infectious disease programs for pathogen surveillance, outbreak investigations and applied public health research.The core infrastructure for this environment includes a High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster, which had Dell components that require extended warranty support for base plus f