Mathematica_FBO_Notice_SS.pdf

Posting on NLM’s Acquisition Opportunities Board

(07/24/2015)

Mathematica software Premier Service Maintenance & Software License Renewal

General Information

Document Type: Notice of Intent to Award

Solicitation Number: Not Applicable

Posted Date: July 24, 2015

Response Date: August 24, 2015

Classification Code: 99 – Miscellaneous

NAICS Code: 511210 – Software Publishers

Contracting Office Address

Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, 6707 Democracy Blvd, Suite 105, Bethesda MD 20892-5488.

Description

This is a notice of intent to award a non-competitive purchase order to Wolfram Research, Inc., 100 Trade Center Drive, Champaign, IL 61820 renewal of Premier service maintenance for existing Mathematica Software, for a 12-month period and two 12-month option periods.to be used by biomedical researchers at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

This requirement will be awarded to Wolfram Research, Inc. based upon the authority at Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 6.302-1(a)(2), as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This requirement is being awarded by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) for the Center for Information Technology (CIT), NIH.

First released in 1988, Mathematica has evolved as a standard tool in many businesses, universities, and Government agencies in computer science and software development, being able to seamlessly integrate a numeric and symbolic computational engine, graphics system, programming language, documentation system, and advanced connectivity to other applications;

which, in combination, offers a unique capability for addressing technical issues in biomedical science that cannot be obtained from any other brand name software application. Mathematica contains three unique environments to achieve this unique functionality: computational, language, and a knowledge base.

The product has been in use at NIH prior to 2003. Mathematica® is used by approximately 40 NIH ongoing, high-priority biomedical research projects. Mathematica® presents a unique product that can be used by various scientific and non- scientific environments via the thousands of built-in functions for computation, modeling, visualization, development, and deployment.

Wolfram’s Function Library currently contains over 307,000 formulas and over 10,750 visualizations. Some of the function categories include elementary functions, constants, Bessel- Type functions, polynomials, Hypergeometric, elliptic integrals, elliptic functions, zeta functions & polylogarithms, Mathieu & Speheriodal functions, complex components, number theory functions and generalized functions. Some examples of current uses of Mathematica® include:

Determining the dynamic properties of cells and enzymes, and other applications in cellular and molecular biology; Bacterial colony counting, computer-aided cell analysis, estimation of infected leaf area and chlorophyll, and other applications using built-in image processing techniques; Real-time agent-based simulation and modeling of ecosystems; Design and analysis of clinical trials; Genomics, population genetics, and statistical genetics in populations to link a variation in genotype with a variation in phenotype.

Wolfram Mathematica® includes access to a unique documentation center. This center provides highly valuable resources in core language; mathematics and algorithms; visualization and graphics; data manipulation; computable data; dynamic interactivity; notebooks and documents (program-constructible symbolic documents with uniquely flexible formatting); and systems interfaces and development. Also contained are built-in genomic, proteomic, and chemical data, ready for use without preprocessing.

Sources having the ability to provide a software product(s) and maintenance that include all of the functionalities described above shall provide clear and comprehensive information that supports their commercial software product and maintenance support. RESPONSES ARE DUE

BY AUGUST 24, 2015, 2:30 PM EST LOCAL PREVAILING TIME AND SHALL BE SENT

VIA E-MAIL TO: is Elizabeth McDannell, 301-451-3410, EMAIL: liz.mcdannell@nih.gov.

Point of Contact

The Point of Contact for this solicitation is Elizabeth McDannell, 301-451-3410, EMAIL:

liz.mcdannell@nih.gov.