SOLICITATION NOTICE
W -- ABAQUS SOFTWARE LEASE RENEWAL
- Notice Date
- 2/6/2004
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- NASA/George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Procurement Office, Marshall Space Flight Center, AL 35812
- ZIP Code
- 35812
- Solicitation Number
- 8-4200048216
- Response Due
- 2/13/2004
- Archive Date
- 2/6/2005
- Point of Contact
- Sherry H Landers, Contract Specialist, Phone (256) 544-4375, Fax (256) 544-6560, Email sherry.h.landers@nasa.gov - Roxanne C. Melton, Contracting Officer, Phone (256) 544-6561, Fax (256) 544-6560, Email roxanne.c.melton@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
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Email your questions to Sherry H Landers
(sherry.h.landers@nasa.gov)
- Description
- NASA/MSFC plans to issue a Request for Quotation (RFQ) for ABAQUS Software Lease Renewal. This procurement is being conducted under the Simplified Acquisition Procedures (SAP). NASA/MSFC intends to purchase the software lease from ABAQUS South, Inc. 3700 Forums Drive, Suite 101, Flower Mound, TX 75028, under FAR Part 13.106. Competition is impractical for the following reasons: (1) ABAQUS has proprietary copyright of the ABAQUS software. Review of current technical literature substantiates that only ABAQUS can provide the software and associated technical support. (2) No other software has the extensive capabilities ABAQUS has for performing highly nonlinear finite element analyses necessary to support the structural analysis of flight hardware. (3)ABAQUS has been in use at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) for eleven years. A significant number of training hours have been invested in learning and using ABAQUS software. This knowledge base and efficiency can not easily be transferred to another offeror?s software package. There now exists at MSFC a significant number of analytical models created in ABAQUS. A significant amount of time and resources would be required to recreate and revalidate these models for use with any other software. (4)Renewal of the ABAQUS software lease is necessary and urgent to support Space Shuttle Return to Flight efforts at the Marshall Space Flight Center that rely on ABAQUS as a structural analysis tool. The Government intends to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12. Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform the effort in writing to the identified point of contact no later than 4:30 p.m. (local time) on February 13, 2004. Such capabilities/qualification will be evaluated solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed effort on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. An Ombudsman has been appointed. See NASA Specific Note ?B?. Any referenced notes can be viewed at the following URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nasanote.html
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