Flow 3-D Renewal FY26

NASA's Shared Services Center (NSSC) has published a Special Notice regarding the renewal of Flow 3-D software licensing and support for Fiscal Year 2026. The agency intends to issue a sole source contract to Flow Science, Inc., located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i), after determining the company is the sole provider of the required service. The contract will be managed by NASA/NSSC with performance conducted at NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. This procurement is categorized under NAICS Code 513210 (Software Publishers) and will utilize commercial item procedures under FAR Parts 12 and 13. The Special Notice was posted on November 17, 2025, with a submission deadline of November 20, 2025.

The primary objective of this Special Notice is to solicit capability statements from interested organizations to determine whether the procurement should be conducted on a competitive basis rather than as a sole source award. Interested parties must submit their written capabilities and qualifications by 4:00 p.m. Central Standard Time on November 20, 2025, to Laura Quave, the primary point of contact at laura.a.quave@nasa.gov. The underlying requirement is for annual maintenance and support of Flow 3-D software, including renewal of a permanent license with two solver instance tokens and 256 core tokens for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications, covering the period from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026. Contractors must be approved resellers of the software and must disclose any artificial intelligence technology used during contract performance, in accordance with OMB memo M-25-22. The government retains sole discretion to determine whether to proceed with competitive bidding based on the submitted responses, and only written submissions will be accepted for consideration.