SOURCES SOUGHT
70 -- MorphoTrak Software
- Notice Date
- 5/16/2012
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541519
— Other Computer Related Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 1640, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1640
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1640
- Solicitation Number
- 12-01636
- Archive Date
- 6/6/2012
- Point of Contact
- Carol A. Wood, Phone: 301-975-8172, Carol A. Wood, Phone: 301-975-8172
- E-Mail Address
-
carol.wood@nist.gov, carol.wood@nist.gov
(carol.wood@nist.gov, carol.wood@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS for market research purposes. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS. INFORMATION RECEIVED WILL BE USED FOR MARKET RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY. After the results of this market research are obtained and analyzed, NIST may conduct a competitive procurement and subsequently award a contract. If at least two qualified small business resellers are identified during this market research stage, then any competitive procurement that resulted would be conducted as a small business set-aside. NIST has been in collaboration with the FBI since 1968 in conducting research on automated fingerprint-matching systems. Since 2008, with the help and support from the FBI, the current legacy fingerprint-matching test environment at NIST is in a transitional phase to update the current supercomputer based architecture to the new blade-based Next Generation Identification (NGI) system currently in operation at the FBI. The new blade-based NGI system architecture utilizes a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS)fingerprint-matcher system produced by Safran MorphoTrak specifically for the FBI's current operational system. The FBI has requested NIST to install the identical software on FBI supplied hardware to remain in sync with the FBI's operational system. The FBI has provided NIST the necessary hardware as well as funds to purchase the COTS fingerprint-matcher MorphoBSS produced by Safran MorphoTrak to be installed on the provided hardware. Transition and updating of the NIST fingerprint-matching system to duplicate the subsystem of the FBI's new NGI system, specifically the MorphoBSS software provided by Safran MorphoTrak, is critical for NIST to remain in sync with the operational behavior of the FBI system, to ensure repeatability of the NIST testing framework, and to maintain this long standing collaboration. Procurement of the MorphoTrak MBSS technology allows NIST and MorphoTrak to utilize and capitalize on the technological advances that exist with fingerprint data extraction and matching presently deployed in the FBI's NGI Increment 1. NIST is seeking vendors, other than the software manufacturer, who are authorized resellers for MorphoTrak and can provide required software. Specifically, MorphoBSS SGI IdFP/RISC Testbed Software to include SW License Agreement. The following information is requested to be provided as part of the response to this sources sought notice: 1. Documentation which clearly demonstrates that the company is an authorized reseller for MorphoTrak; 2. Name and business size of the company that is an authorized reseller for the required software; 3. Indication of number of days, after receipt of order that is typical for delivery of the required software; 4. Indication of whether the required software is currently on one or more GSA Federal Supply Schedule contracts and, if so, the GSA FSS contract number(s); 5. Any other relevant information that is not listed above which the Government should consider in finalizing its market research. All documentation must be sent to Carol A. Wood, Contract Specialist, at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 1640, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-1640. E-mail address: CAROL.WOOD@NIST.GOV. Submission must be received not later than 3:30 PM local time on May 22, 2012. Vendors shall identify their business size as Small Business in accordance with North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code 541519 with Exception 2for Value Added Resellers; the Small Business Size Standard is $25.0M.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOC/NIST/AcAsD/12-01636/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Ship to:, NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, United States
- Zip Code: 20899
- Zip Code: 20899
- Record
- SN02750423-W 20120518/120517001047-ee80f9d969fa724ad75ddde63f4ac88f (fbodaily.com)
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