SOLICITATION NOTICE
70 -- SB1341-13-RQ-0006 MathWorks
- Notice Date
- 10/24/2012
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- 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, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1640
- Solicitation Number
- SB1341-13-RQ-0006
- Archive Date
- 11/23/2012
- Point of Contact
- Willie W. Lu, Phone: 3019758259, Chon S. Son, Phone: 301-975-8567
- E-Mail Address
-
willie.lu@nist.gov, chon.son@nist.gov
(willie.lu@nist.gov, chon.son@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been using the Mathwork's product line for over 12 years. Mathwork's MATLAB product, and tools, has been the software suite that suit to the needs for NIST's researchers. NIST researchers in both Gaithersburg and Boulder use Mathworks products to enable them to perform high-level technical computing language and use an interactive environment for algorithm development, data visualization, data analysis, and numeric computation that serve the missions of their laboratory and the agency. The current Mathworks licensed products are critical to the success of NIST researchers for their work. Although there may be different product and maintenance service available, the institutional knowledge that has been built using the Mathworks products all these years will be extremely difficult to replace. The continued renewal of the maintenance contract with the Mathworks Software Maintenance Service (SMS) ensures uninterrupted and reliable support service from Mathworks. The twice-yearly general product releases via the Mathworks SMS are essential to ensure the latest software is available to the NIST's user community. In addition, there are multiple current projects dependent on the past and current MATLAB runs and configurations. Terminating the use of the Mathworks MATLAB and tools licenses will significantly interrupt the flow of the output of these ongoing projects and will severely hamper NIST research efforts. Furthermore, NIST researchers who have run public domain Mathworks look-alike products find those products do not satisfy their needs. Mathworks is the sole owner of the product and the software maintenance provider. Software Maintenance services (SMS) can only be purchased from MathWorks or MathWorks Authorized Resellers. The current software maintenance contract will expire on 12/31/2012. A solicitation will be issued for the renewal of NIST's Mathwork SMS. The period of performance will be for a period of one year. The NAICS code for this requirement is 541519 with a small business size standard of $25.5 million. Contracting by Negotiation shall be utilized under the authority of FAR Part 15. This requirement is 100% set-aside for small business. The competitive Request for Proposal (RFP), amendments, and all questions and answers related to this procurement shall be made available via the Internet at HTTP://WWW.FEDBIZOPPS.GOV under RFP number SB1341-13-RQ-0006. Potential offerors shall be responsible for obtaining this solicitation and related Amendments, if any, from www.fbo.gov after the solicitation has been posted. It is, and will continue to be, the responsibility of each potential Offeror to monitor www.fbo.gov for any amendments or other information related to the solicitation. The Government will not maintain a mailing list. Any communications regarding this acquisition must be made in writing and forwarded via email to willie.lu@nist.gov, and shall identify the solicitation number, company name, company address, as well as point of contact email address and phone number. Offerors must be actively registered in the Central Contractor Registration website at www.ccr.gov, in order to be eligible to receive a contract under this acquisition. NIST anticipates posting the solicitation approximately 15 days after the date of publication of this notice.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOC/NIST/AcAsD/SB1341-13-RQ-0006/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: NIST, 100 Bureau Dr., Gaithersburg, Maryland, 21704, United States
- Zip Code: 21704
- Zip Code: 21704
- Record
- SN02919117-W 20121026/121024234718-771d7e78aa6bed190f8b63a51534db1f (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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