Basic Ordering Agreement for Supercomputer Technology Insertions

Added: Mar 17, 2017 7:14 pm

COMBINED SYNOPSIS/SOLICITATION

This notice is being posted as an avenue to provide Request for Proposals, W912HN-17-R-0032. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information in this notice. This solicitation document incorporates provisions and clauses in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2005-95, effective 19 January 2017. North American Industrial Classification Code (NAICS) 334111 applies to this procurement, and the business size standard is 1,250 employees. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONSTITUTES THE ONLY SOLICITATION; PROPOSALS ARE BEING REQUESTED AND A WRITTEN SOLICITATION WILL NOT BE ISSUED. This will be a full and open competition procurement.

Title of Requirement: Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) for supercomputer Technology Insertions (TI).

Description of Requirement: The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center in Huntsville (CEHNC) is issuing this combined synopsis/solicitation to interested firms with the capability to on-ramp onto an existing suite of BOAs for supercomputer Technology Insertions (TIs) in support of the High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP). The existing CEHNC HPCMP BOAs current capacity is $60M. The existing BOA suite was established in June 2013 with a 5 year life cycle, ceasing in June 2018. This notice is an invitation to any size business concern to provide a capability statement in response to this requirement.
This announcement seeks to evaluate industry's ability to provide sustainable, state-of-the-art, HPC capability for the DoD research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) community. This requirement is in direct support of the DoD HPCMP's mission - to accelerate the development and transition of advanced defense technologies into superior warfighting capabilities by exploiting and strengthening U.S. leadership in supercomputing, communications, and computational modeling. The HPCMP continues to enhance its ability to support DoD and the warfighter through the acquisition of balanced HPC systems for five DOD Supercomputing Resource Center (DSRCs). The Government is interested in uncovering industry's ability to deliver balanced, commercially-available, production-grade HPC systems, which contain an appropriate combination of processor, memory, disk I/O, interconnect, and operating system (OS) capabilities in order to conduct complex, tightly-coupled, large-scale, scientific calculations.

Submission Requirements: Proposals should be e-mailed to Mr. Christopher M. Barnett at Christopher.M.Barnett@usace.army.mil by March 31, 2017 at 3:00 PM Central Standard Time. Please courtesy copy, Ms. Tezra J. Hamilton at Tezra.J.Hamilton@usace.army.mil.

Basis for Award: The BOA will be made to firms that are technically acceptable, responsible and reponsive. This is in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) 52.212-2, Evaluation - Commercial Items, and FAR 9.104.
The Government reserves the right to cancel this solicitation. This announcement does not obligate the Government to award a contract nor does it obligate the Government to pay for any preparation costs.