Vivado License

The Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA) is procuring renewal of three Vivado ML Enterprise Edition Floating Licenses to support their Warfighter Solutions Programs, specifically the Quick Reaction Engineering (QRE) and Side Effects Engineering Programs. This firm-fixed price contract will provide software licensing, updates, enhancements, and upgrades for Vivado simulation environment software used to program Xilinx FPGAs through July 31, 2026. The procurement is being conducted under FAR Part 13 with quotes due by 2:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on August 12, 2025, submitted via email to Contracting Officer Zonel Laborde. The government will evaluate offers based on two primary factors: quality of the product and price, with the award going to the responsible offeror providing the best value. The solicitation includes market research identifying eight authorized distributors and incorporates standard federal acquisition regulations and defense-specific provisions.

This procurement does not utilize any set-aside designations and is open for full and open competition despite being justified as a brand name/sole-source procurement from AMD/Xilinx or its authorized distributors. The solicitation identified two WOSB/HUBZone certified companies among the eight authorized distributors, specifically Spirit Electronics and Port Electronics, though a HUBZone set-aside was not expected to yield responsible offers. The contract involves exactly three Vivado software licenses with a performance period extending through July 31, 2026, as the current licenses are set to expire in July 2025. Work will be performed to support DMEA operations located at McClellan Park, California. While specific contract values are not disclosed in the available documentation, the procurement represents a renewal of existing capabilities critical to DMEA's engineering programs that would face additional costs and potential schedule impacts if alternative FPGA software were adopted.