ASRmel Software Licenses
Closed Special Notice Posted
- Solicitation number
- 1232SA24P0035
- Agency
- Agricultural Research Service Department of Agriculture
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 541990 All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Place of performance
- Beltsville, Maryland 20705, United States
- Points of contact
-
- Marian Dyson marian.dyson@usda.gov (301) 504-1700
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service has issued a Special Notice for the intent to award a sole source contract for the procurement of ASReml-R software licenses. ASReml-R is a robust statistical analysis software specifically developed for linear mixed models, which the agency requires to support its work in animal, plant, and aqua breeding, agriculture, environmental sciences, and medical sciences.
The purpose of this Special Notice is to notify the public of the agency's intent to award a Firm Fixed Price contract to VSN International Limited, as they are the only qualified organization to provide the required ASReml-R software. The period of performance for this contract will be a base year from September 1, 2024, to August 31, 2025, with two optional one-year extension periods. This Special Notice is not a request for competitive quotes, and no solicitation is currently available. Interested parties are instructed to submit inquiries via email to the primary point of contact, Marian Dyson, at Marian.Dyson@usda.gov.
Notice text
NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD SOLE SOURCE:
This is a notice of intent to award a sole source contract. Pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) 13.106-1(b)(1)(i). Contracting Officers may solicit from one source if it is determined only one source is reasonably available to satisfy agency requirements, as supplemented with additional information in this notice. Sources were sought and did not satisfy the agency’s requirements.
The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) intends to award on a sole source basis a Firm Fixed Price contract to VSN International Limited. ARS has the need for ASReml-R. ASRmel-R is a robust statistical analysis software specifically developed for linear mixed models. It harnesses the power of linear mixed-effects models to provide a versatile and adaptable solution for analyzing various types of large and complex data sets commonly encountered in animal, plant, and aqua breeding, agriculture, environmental sciences, and medical sciences. ASReml-R performs Genomic Prediction and complex multi-trait and multi-environment analyses.
• Compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.x and Rocky Linux 9.x
• Based on the R programming language
• Capable of operating within a high-performance, multi-user computing cluster environment.
• Capable of efficiently handling large and extremely large data sets (100,000 or more observations/effects).
• Employ Residual Maximum Likelihood (REML) estimation.
• Support of linear mixed-effect models.
• Accommodate nested and crossed effects, along with arrays of complex structures on random effects and residuals.
• Support spatial analyses, repeated measures, random regression, and correlated structures in breeding datasets.
• Perform Genomic Prediction
• Perform complex multi-trait and multi-environment analyses.
VSN International Limited is the only qualified organization to supply the required software.
Period of Performance:
Base Year: 09.01.2024 – 08.31.2025
Option Year I: 09.01.2025 – 08.31.2026
Option Year II: 09.01.2026 – 08.31.2027
THIS NOTICE IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE QUOTES; AND NO SOLICITATION IS AVAILABLE.
Inquiries will only be accepted via email to the primary point of a contact, Marian Dyson at Marian.Dyson@usda.gov.
Notice history
| Notice | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| ASRmel Software Licenses | Special Notice | |
| ASRmel Software Licenses | Pre-Solicitation |
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