Subject Matter Experts (SME)

The USACE, Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), has a need to procure services to support the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL), US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), located in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Solicitation Number W912HZ-17-R-0001 is being issued as a request for proposal (RFP) with the intent to award as an IDIQ contract using negotiated procedures with a five year ordering period. Task orders will be issued to support the ITL with Subject Matter Expert (SME) services for the High Performance Computing Modernization Program at Vicksburg, MS and remote field sites if applicable; CORs will be appointed to oversee tasks at all locations. The Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) is a joint program that serves the Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) community of the Department of Defense. The HPCMP is a technology-led, innovation-focused program committed to extending high performance computing to address the DoD's most significant challenges in the Science & Technology and Test & Evaluation (S&T and T&E) communities and in acquisition programs for new and modified defense systems in a timely fashion. This requirement is to provide the HPCMP with specialized analysis and to support robust, integrated strategic, operational, and tactical processes for HPCMP in the areas of organization effectiveness; and RDT&E to include the development of processes and metrics to achieve HPCMP missions and goals to support the Warfighter and protect the nation.

Detailed specifications will be available on the FedBizOpps website at http://www.fedbizopps.gov on or about 05 December 2016. Hardcopies will not be available. Offerors should check the FedBizOpps web page often for new solicitations and/or changes (AMENDMENTS) to existing ones. THIS PROCUREMENT IS 100% HUBZONE SET ASIDE UNDER NAICS CODE 541611 WITH A SIZE STANDARD OF $15,000,000.00.

No questions will be considered prior to the release of the solicitation.