Climate Model Supercomputing Environment Support

Climate Model Supercomputing Environment Support:
NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD NON-COMPETITIVE ACQUISITION
Requisition No.: 0040405181 Date of Notice: 08/16/2018
Contracting Officer: Stewart Evans Closing Date: 08/26/2018
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Description of Services: NAICS 518210: Data Processing Services. $32.5M
The U.S. Geological Survey Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center, requires support of the DOI climate model supercomputing environment. These services include providing information to resources managers and related information delivery systems for global monitoring and reporting. The award will be a base year with one option year.
Accordingly, the USGS intends to award this requirement non-competitively IAW FAR 13.106-1(b) (2), to Oregon State University (OSU), College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR. OSU has been the sole provider of this vital information for several years. Interested concerns having the ability to furnish similar services shall submit a capabilities statement to the Contracting Officer no later than the closing date of this announcement. This is NOT an RFQ. This may represent the only written notice of this acquisition.
Services will be performed at the Contractor¿s facilities.
Any resulting order will be IAW FAR FAC 2005-99, 16 July 2018
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For further information, please contact the Contracting Officer at (916) 278-9334 or sevans@usgs.gov.
Submission of Proposals: Proposals shall only be accepted through electronic mail addressed to sevans@usgs.gov. All proposal documents required by this solicitation must be uploaded and received in their entirety no later than 08/26/2018, 1300 EDT. Proposals submitted by hardcopy or the FedConnect web portal or Fed Connect Message Center shall not be accepted or considered.
The purpose of this notice is to satisfy the requirements of FAR Subpart 5.2. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotes. However, all responsible parties may submit a quotation which shall be considered by the agency. No solicitation will be issued. A determination not to compete this action based upon responses received is in the sole discretion of the Government.
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