FY25 Cadence Support for Fidelity Pointwise Renewal

NASA's Shared Services Center has issued a Special Notice for FY25 Cadence Support for Fidelity Pointwise Renewal, a specialized software requirement for NASA Ames Research Center. The agency intends to award a sole source contract to Cadence Design Systems in San Jose, California, under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i), having determined that Cadence is the sole provider of this particular software support. The procurement will be conducted using commercial acquisition procedures under FAR Parts 12 and 13, with the NAICS code 541519 for Other Computer Related Services. Performance will be located at NASA Ames Research Center, with NASA/NSSC serving as the procuring center. The Special Notice was posted on June 24, 2025, with a tight response deadline of June 26, 2025.

The purpose of this procurement is to acquire support licenses for Fidelity Pointwise mesh generation software, which is critical for computational fluid dynamics modeling and supports Code YAA engineers in developing CFD models for large-scale parallel computers. The requirement includes 3 support licenses for one system and 2 support licenses for another system at Moffett Field, California, with a performance period from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026. Interested organizations must submit their capabilities and qualifications in writing to the designated points of contact by 3:00 p.m. Central Standard Time on June 26, 2025, with oral communications not being acceptable. The government will evaluate these submissions solely to determine whether to conduct the procurement on a competitive basis, though the final decision remains at the government's discretion. The software enables rapid cleaning and preparation of geometries from CAD formats and generation of high-quality meshes for complex geometries, supporting Department of Defense acquisition programs and advanced computational fluid dynamics simulations.