AspenOne Engineering Desktop

SUBJECT: ASPEN ENGINEERING SUITE SOFTWARE BUNDLES

Description: The U.S. Chemical Safety Board intends to award a purchase order on a sole-source basis to ASPEN Technology Inc., Burlington, MA for the following:

ASPENONE Engineering Desktop Software Bundle (ASPEN Plus/ASPEN Custom Modeler/ASPEN Dynamics Software) based on 1-year license term with 2 option years.

This purchase order is being issued to ASPEN Technology Inc because it is required by the government to perform systems analysis in connection with CSB incident investigations. The CSB uses the ASPEN Technology Inc process simulation software to better understand the process in each investigation including potential failure modes. No other software can supply ASPEN Plus, ASPEN Dynamics and ASPEN Custom Modeler. ASPEN Technology Inc is the developer and only supplier of ASPEN Plus, AD, and ACM.

This purchase is being issued to ASPEN Technology Inc because there is no alternative since they are the only source who can provide the items being requested by the government. This request is considered to be sole source to ASPEN Technology Inc. All responsible sources may submit a bid proposal, or quotation which shall be considered by this agency. Offerors shall provide sufficient technical literature, documents, etc, in order for the Government evaluation team to make an adequate technical assessment of the quote as meeting technical acceptability. Therefore, no solicitation will result from this announcement. The North American Classification Code (NAIC) is 511210. This award shall be made using FAR Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures. All interested firms must respond to CSB-12-RFQ-0007 by 05:00 P.M. EST, June 22, 2012. Request for information should be addressed to the Contracting Officer, Allen Smith at 202-261-7638 or via email at allen.smith@csb.gov. All proposals should be e-mailed to contracts@csb.gov.