KPT-53-0012- NVIDIA Sole Source_Redacted.pdf

This document is a sole source justification for the procurement of NVIDIA GPU cards and 4U computers from the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command solicitation number N0025323Q0079. The solicitation seeks to award a contract for NVIDIA GPU cards and computers compatible with the cards to support research and development projects. The justification for a sole source award is that the projects require NVIDIA GPUs with specific architecture and software to run specialized machine learning and modeling applications, so equivalent or substitute products would not meet requirements. The deadline for responses was June 15, 2022 and award is expected by July 15, 2022.