FY25 Cadence Support for Fidelity Pointwise Renewal (PoP Dates: 7/1/2025 – 6/30/2026)

NASA's Shared Services Center has published a Special Notice for a sole source procurement of FY25 Cadence Support for Fidelity Pointwise Renewal software services. The contract period will run from July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026, with performance taking place at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. NASA intends to award this contract solely to Cadence Design Systems Inc. of San Jose, California under FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i) authority, having determined that Cadence is the sole provider capable of delivering the required support services. The procurement falls under NAICS code 513210 for Software Publishers and will utilize commercial item acquisition procedures under FAR Parts 12 and 13. The contract will cover support for 8 units of Fidelity Pointwise software with specific system identification requirements detailed in the attached Statement of Work.

The primary purpose of this Special Notice is to inform potential contractors of NASA's intent to proceed with a sole source award while providing an opportunity for other qualified organizations to demonstrate their capabilities. Interested organizations must submit their qualifications and capabilities in writing by 12:00 p.m. Central Standard Time on June 20, 2025, with oral communications explicitly not acceptable. NASA will evaluate these responses solely to determine whether the procurement should be conducted on a competitive basis, though the final decision to maintain sole source procurement remains at the government's discretion. The contract will provide continuing software support services for Fidelity Pointwise, a computational fluid dynamics mesh generation tool used by NASA for aerospace research and development activities. Organizations responding must demonstrate their ability to provide the specialized technical support required for this proprietary software system.