ADS-ICCAP Software Maintenance Agreement

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Acquisition Management Division intends to negotiate with Keysight Technologies located in Colorado Springs, CO on a sole source basis under the authority of FAR Subpart 13.106-1(b), soliciting from a single source, for Keysight Advanced Design System (ADS) Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA). The maintenance support required for this software needs to be compatible with the software used at these foundries.

Specific Requirements for the ADS-ICAPP Software Maintenance Agreement are as follows:

Software Maintenance Agreement – 1 year

W2202BP/12812830, ADS Core, Layout, Advanced Layout, Harmonic Balance bundled software license, 1 Year

W2205BP/12417893, ADS Core, Layout, Advanced Layout, Harmonic Balance, Momentum, Interoperability bundled software license, 1 Year

W2302EP/12704073, Transient Convolution + Channel Sim element software license, 1 Year

W8500BP/12629652, IC-CAP Device modeling platform bundle license, 1 Year

W2205BP/13441339, ADS Core, Layout, Advanced Layout, Harmonic Balance, Momentum, Interoperability bundled software license, 1 Year

W8541EP/13441341, IC-CAP Keysight HBT model extraction software license, 1 Year

ISM-HEMT extraction package software license, 1 year

This shall be provided and accomplished in accordance with the Statement of Work attached herein.

NAICS Code is 511210 – Software Publishers, with a Size Standard of $41.5 million in annual receipts. NIST anticipates negotiating and awarding a firm-fixed-price purchase order to Keysight Technologies, Inc. for this requirement.

Interested parties that can demonstrate they could satisfy the requirement listed above for NIST must clearly and unambiguously identify their capability to do so in writing on or before the response date for this notice. This notice of intent is not a solicitation. Information submitted in response to this notice will be used solely to determine whether competitive procedures could be used for this acquisition. If competitive procedures are not used it is estimated that an award will be issued by 5/23/2023. Any questions regarding this notice must be submitted in writing via email to lia.arthofer@nist.gov . All responses to this notice of intent must be submitted to lia.arthofer@nist.gov no later than the date and time provided herein this posting.