Purchase Order N0017315P0042

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) awarded a $3,225 firm fixed-price purchase order to The Mathworks, Inc. on October 8, 2014, for software products with an ultimate completion date of October 22, 2014. The contract, with no set-aside designation, represents a small-value procurement of mathematical computing software from The Mathworks' MATLAB and Simulink platform, which are essential technical computing and data analysis tools widely utilized across the Department of Defense and federal research agencies for advanced engineering applications and scientific computation.

The Mathworks, headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts, is a leading provider of mathematical computing software to the federal government and maintains an extensive portfolio of prime contracts across multiple defense and civilian agencies, including NASA, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the Air Force Research Laboratory. Beyond individual purchase orders like this ONR award, The Mathworks holds significant enterprise license agreements and blanket purchase agreements with federal agencies, including an $8.4 million enterprise license agreement with ONR through June 2028 and a $750,000 blanket purchase agreement with the Army Corps of Engineers' Engineer Research and Development Center. The company's strategic position as a primary software vendor across federal research and development operations underscores the critical importance of its computing infrastructure to government technical initiatives.