Sources Sought 23-3A8.pdf

Number: HQ072723R0004

Notice Type: Sources Sought

Synopsis:

IAW DFARS PGI 206.302-1, the Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA), McClellan, CA is issuing this Sources Sought Notice to find potential sources to provide rapid access to Cadence software tools. Industry responses to this Notice will assist the Government in determining the appropriate acquisition method, and will provide the Government information about the availability of qualified companies technically capable of meeting the requirement. Information received in response to this Notice will also help the Government determine whether a competitive procurement and/or small business set-aside is possible. All authorized resellers are invited to respond to this Notice. Proof of legal ability to re-sell requested.

This Notice is relative to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 513210, Software Publishers. The Small Business size standard for NAICS 513210 is $47,000,000.00.

The Product Service Code (PSC) is 7A20, It And Telecom - Application Development Software (Perpetual License Software).

The approximate Period of Performance is 20FEB2023 –19FEB2028, a 5-year ordering period (no options).

Scope:

Software: Product support for software installs, updates, bug fixes, enhancements, maintenance for all products identified as needed. May include both time based and perpetual type licenses. Software installs will be performed by local personnel and/or contractors. Software for design, layout, extraction, modeling, simulation; Software Products may include, but is not limited to: Virtuoso, Spectre, Diva, Assura, SKILL, Conformal, Quantus, Tempus, Xcelium, Modus, OrCAD.

Technical support: Telephone and electronic support services to DMEA personnel and system administrators, including Technical Interchange Meeting (TIMs). Access to an online Cadence support portal website consisting of design solutions, product release notes, application notes and pertinent documentation of Cadence software to which DMEA has licenses. Regular communication of major software releases or service package upgrades of Cadence software license material to DMEA engineers and system administrators listed as points of contract in task orders. Printed and/or soft copy (electronic version) of user, maintenance and installation manuals of Cadence software.

Such support may also include services to migrate, validate, develop, update, and verify Process Design Kits (PDKs), cell libraries, as well as quality assurance (test and verification), characterization, validation, and training.

Hardware Support: Hardware platforms to support design, testing, simulation, verification of Cadence designs, including maintenance and warranties.

Data: Process Design Kits (PDKs) or information to support PDK development, process cell libraries, design rules, specifications, and updates. Data may also include status reports, TIM minutes, and other task reports as required by specific task order requirements.

End of Life (EOL) Products: The vendor shall provide DMEA an annual a list of all vendor products that will be procured that will be approaching EOL during the upcoming bid year. If a product is determined to be an EOL product, the vendor shall provide a recommendation to DMEA for evaluation at that time.

Responses & Capability Statement: Vendors having the ability to provide the requirements are encouraged to submit a statement, not to exceed three pages, documenting their capabilities of meeting all of the requirements listed above, to include facilities requirements for the operation of the source, recent corporate experience in fulfilling this type of requirement, and,

a) Company name and address, to include email address(s) and URL(s),

b) Point of Contact (POC) name,

c) POC telephone number and email address,

d) Organizational Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) code,

e) Organizational Unique Entity ID (UEI) number,

f) Business size status for the applicable NAICS code.

Any organization responding to this Notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization's qualifications to perform the work. Interested vendors are instructed to provide only the data requested in this Notice. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information or provide feedback to respondents with respect to information submitted. After reviewing responses received, a synopsis, a pre-solicitation notice or solicitation may be published to the Government Point of Entry (GPE), SAM.gov.

No proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should be included in responses.

The Government reserves the right to use any non-proprietary technical information in any resultant solicitation.

Disclaimers and Important Notes: This Notice is for information and planning purposes only and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government, implied or otherwise, to issue a solicitation or award a contract. This is not a request for quote (RFQ) or a request for proposal (RFP), and responses will not be considered as proposals or quotes. The Government will not pay for any cost incurred in responding to this Notice. Any information submitted by respondents to this Sources Sought synopsis shall be voluntary.

The information submitted in response to this Notice will not be utilized to determine vendor standing in any future or potential RFP or RFQ, whether a vendor is qualified to submit an RFQ or RFP for any future requirement, or how well respondents can perform a requirement, which can only be evaluated in response to a solicitation.

Vendors will not receive formal notification or feedback on any information submitted in response to this Sources Sought Notice. The Government reserves the right to reject, in whole or in part, any response to this Notice. Any future submissions in response to a solicitation to the GPE will be evaluated independent of any information submitted in response to this Notice.

Responses to this Sources Sought will not be returned. Not responding to this sources sought does not preclude participation in any future and potential solicitation. The Government will not provide potential vendors information on solicitations issued on the GPE based on this Sources Sought Notice.

Submission deadline date is 02FEB2023 by 5:00PM PST. Send electronic responses to this notice to: makenzie.a.murphy.civ@mail.mil and robert.d.crandell.civ@mail.mil