D Attachment 1 Purchase Description.pdf
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- Two Rocky Linux Annual Licenses Federal contract opportunity
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- 75N95024Q00487
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This document is a Purchase Description for 2 each annual subscriptions for the Rocky Linux operating system to support the High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The support is required to ensure availability of the NCATS HPC cluster, which is used for scientific computing and analysis, such as imaging, data processing, virtual screening, and molecular simulations.
The requirement is for a non-competitive, brand-name sole-source acquisition with a firm fixed-price purchase order. The period of performance is a base year from September 16, 2024 to September 15, 2025, with two option years. Delivery is required within 3-5 days of order placement. The government anticipates awarding the contract to the only vendor currently providing Rocky Linux support, CTRL IQ, Inc. Responses are due by August 27, 2024.
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| File | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| D Attachment 2 FAR 52.204-24 (Nov 2021).pdf | ||
| D Comb_Synop-Solicit-NONCOMPETITIVE -75N95024Q00487.pdf | ||
| D Attachment 4 FAR 52.212-4_Addendum_Supplier_Licenses.pdf | ||
| D Attachment 6 Invoicing Instructions With IPP 3-23.pdf | ||
| D Attachment 5 FAR 52.212-5 (May 2024).pdf | ||
| D Attachment 3 FAR 52.204-26 (Oct 2020).pdf |
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Version 11-30-2016-1 FAR Part 11—Describing Agency Needs
PURCHASE DESCRIPTION
1. Statement of Need and Purpose: The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
(NCATS) Division of Preclinical Innovation (DPI) Scientific Computing Infrastructure (SCI) team at the Information Technology Resources Branch (ITRB).requires 2 each Rocky Linux annual licenses.
2. Background Information and Objective:
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the nation’s leading medical research agency and the primary Federal agency whose mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability, conducting, supporting and making medical discoveries that improve people’s health and save lives.
The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) is a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which mission it is to catalyze the generation of innovative methods and technologies that will enhance the development, testing and implementation of diagnostics and therapeutics across a wide range of human diseases and conditions.
Rocky Linux is a free Linux-based open-source enterprise operating system, a downstream of Red Hat Enterprise Linux or RHEL. This request is to get high-level technical support for this operating system.
At NCATS we have several systems that use Linux-based operating systems opposed to Microsoft Windows or Mac OS systems from Apple. The High-Performance Computing cluster at NCATS is a Linux-based system which uses Rocky Linux as operating system. As Rocky Linux is a free operating system, we need high-level support to ensure availability of the NCATS HPC cluster. The support for the operating system used on the NCATS HPC cluster is in support for scientific computing and a requirement to move forward with scientific analysis to be done using the HPC cluster, i.e., imaging analysis data processing, N3C data processing, Multi-Omics, Virtual Screening, Protein Folding, Docking, Molecular Dynamics Simulations, etc.
3. Generic Name of Product: Support for Rocky Linux operating system
4. Purchase Description: 2 ea. Annual Subscriptions CIQRPSTD: one Base Year consisting of 12 months ARO, then Option Year 1, and Option Year 2 following consecutively at the sole discretion of the government.
Base Year – September 16, 2024 to September 15, 2025 Option Year 1- September 16, 2025 to September 15, 2026 Option Year 2- September 16, 2026 to September 15, 2027
5. Salient characteristics
Rocky Linux is a trusted successor to CentOS, offering broad industry support, compatibility, and value and is now available on every major cloud platform.
6. Quantity: 2 concurrent annual licenses
Version 11-30-2016-1 FAR Part 11—Describing Agency Needs
7. Delivery Date:
Access to be available within 3-5 days upon receipt of order from NCATS
8. Period of Performance:
This is an annual subscription, for 12 months starting within 3-5 days ARO for the Base Year, and then for two Option Years after that if the government decides to exercise those options.
9. Option(s): N/A
| 2. Background Information and Objective: |
| 4. Purchase Description: 2 ea. Annual Subscriptions CIQRPSTD: one Base Year consisting of 12 months ARO, then Option Year 1, and Option Year 2 following consecutively at the sole discretion of the government. |
| Base Year – September 16, 2024 to September 15, 2025 |
| Option Year 1- September 16, 2025 to September 15, 2026 |
| Option Year 2- September 16, 2026 to September 15, 2027 |
| 5. Salient characteristics |
| Rocky Linux is a trusted successor to CentOS, offering broad industry support, compatibility, and value and is now available on every major cloud platform. |
| 7. Delivery Date: |
| 8. Period of Performance: |
| 9. Option(s): N/A |
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