The Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City (NSWC PC), Florida intends to solicit Ardence, Inc., 266 Second Avenue, Waltham, MA 02541-1102 on a sole source basis for the development of drivers that will enable the secure erase for solid state disk drives manufactured by BitMicro networks (P/N: D2A066B001024I1N) and Memtech (P/N: AT2550-1024z). These drivers are for an embedded operating system developed using Window NT embedded tool kit. Ardence, Inc., has provided this type of skill set to the LCAC C4N project in the past and has done so with no defects in the end product. Both solid state drive manufactures have stated that they don’t have the knowledge to enable the secure erase feature in our system configuration. Ardence, Inc., is the only source that can develop the required low-level drivers to meet the secure erase function. The anticipated award date will be on or about April 29, 2005. Delivery will be the Naval Support Activity - Panama City, Receiving Offi! cer, Building 100, 101 Vernon Avenue, Panama City, FL 32407-7018. NAICS Code 541511 applies. SBA Size Standard is $21M. PSC is D308.

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