CalSysSmart Software License and Support
Closed Special Notice Posted
- Solicitation number
- OU63-25-NEW-200
- Agency
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National Institute of Standards and Technology
Department of Commerce
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 513210 Software Publishers
- Place of performance
- Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
- Points of contact
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), within the Department of Commerce, has issued a Special Notice for CalSysSmart Software License and Support. The notice pertains to the Materials Measurement Laboratory's Materials Science and Engineering Division's Mechanical Performance Group (MPG), which develops measurement methods, models, and standards for mechanical properties of advanced materials including high strength steel, aluminum alloys, and composites. The MPG requires specialized software to model deformation behavior of materials and extract material parameters for yield function and hardening models used in metal forming industries. The notice was posted on August 15, 2025, with a due date of August 25, 2025. This procurement falls under the Software Publishers NAICS category and involves business application software with perpetual licensing.
The purpose of this Special Notice is to announce NIST's requirement for software capable of extracting yield surface models and hardening laws from experimental stress-strain data, with automatic parameter generation without manual intervention. The software must provide capabilities for determining parameters of 9 yield functions and 9 work-hardening models with an English interface. Based on market research conducted by MPG, only CalSysSmart software has been identified as meeting these specific technical requirements. JSOL Corporation has been verified as the sole provider of CalSysSmart software and related support services, with their products being proprietary in nature. The procurement is structured as a sole source acquisition due to the unique capabilities of the CalSysSmart software platform. Contractors interested in this opportunity must respond by the August 25, 2025 deadline, though eligibility appears limited given the sole source nature of the requirement.
Notice text
The Materials Measurement Laboratory, Materials Science and Engineering Division’s Mechanical Performance Group (MPG) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) develops measurement methods, models, data, standards, and science for the mechanical properties of advanced materials (e.g., high strength steel, aluminum alloys, composites) and materials under extreme environmental and operating conditions. The MPG provides expertise needed to determine materials and system performance within and outside design limits and generates and disseminates reliable mechanical data. Essential to development and use of new materials and processes, is the ability to model the deformation behavior of materials.
MPG makes extensive use of a various of finite element-based software tools such as ABAQUS, ANSYS, LS-Dyna etc. to do this modeling.
To meet mission requirements, the MSED and the MPG requires software develop material parameters for widely used yield function and hardening models commonly used in the metal forming industries for a variety of material systems. Specific requirements include:
- Capability to extract various yield surface models and hardening laws appropriate for sheet metals from experimentally obtained stress-strain data (uniaxial, biaxial, bulge tests etc.).
- Ability to automatically provide these parameters (both yield surface models and hardening laws) from tests without any manual intervention.
- Capability in determining parameters of 9 yield function and 9 work-hardening with an English interface.
The MPG reviewed capabilities of multiple vendors and their products that are geared toward generating material card information from test data. Based on that market research, only CalSysSmart software has been identified as being able to meet the MPG’s requirements.
JSOL Corporation verified in writing to NIST that JSOL Corporation is the sole provider of CalSysSmart software and related support. JSOL products are proprietary.
Based on the foregoing, the contracting officer intends to noncompetitively solicit, negotiate and award a purchase order to JSOL Corporation for a CalSysSmart software license, including one year of support that is commercially available for that license, under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i).
The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 513210 – Software Publishers.
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