SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- MID- ATLANTIC TERASCALE PARTNERSHIP ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP
- Notice Date
- 6/14/2004
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 518210
— Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Ames Research Center, JA:M/S 241-1, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000
- ZIP Code
- 94035-1000
- Solicitation Number
- 4200067369DTP
- Response Due
- 6/29/2004
- Archive Date
- 6/14/2005
- Point of Contact
- Dunamis Pedraza, Contract Specialist, Phone (650) 604-5467, Fax (650) 604-3020, Email Dunamis.T.Pedraza@nasa.gov - Jill Willard, Contracting Officer, Phone (650) 604-3007, Fax (650) 604-3020, Email Jill.Willard-1@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
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Email your questions to Dunamis Pedraza
(Dunamis.T.Pedraza@nasa.gov)
- Description
- NASA/ARC has a requirement to acquire membership in the Mid-Atlantic Terascale Partnership (MATP) for terascale research with computational and communication infrastructure, develop optical network infrastructure and serve as a node for the National Lambda Rail. This will enable the right to use the corporation?s transcontinental advanced communications network infrastructure and the responsibility to facilitate access for research institutions within the geographic areas of District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. NASA/ARC intends to purchase the items from Viriginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Communications Network Services, 1770 Forecast Drive, Blacksburg, VA 24061. The purpose of MATP is to promote the research competitiveness of institutions in the region with the intent to accomplish the following: 1. Provide a forum for cooperation among participating institutions to implement terascale research computational and communication infrastructure reaching participating institutions in the region to support research requirements. 2. Support a National Lambdarail (NLR) node location in the Washington DC metropolitan area and facilitate use of NLR for research. 3. Cooperate for implementation of state and regional optical research network infrastructure connecting participating institutions to one another and to the NLR initially with multiple 10 Gbps channel capability and ultimately capable of scaling to terabit capacity. 4. Collaborate where appropriate to establish Teragrid infrastructure by acquiring and combining computational and storage resources and to pursue related research funding opportunities. This sole source is made under the authority of FAR Part 13.106-1(b), for the acquisition of supplies and services determined to be reasonably available from only one source. The Government intends to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12 and the procurement will be conducting under Simplified Acquisition Procedures set forth under FAR Part 13. Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform the effort in writing to the identified point of contact not later than 4:00 p.m.(PST)local time on June 29, 2004. Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed effort on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the government. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency. An Ombudsman has been appointed. See NASA Specific Note "B". Any referenced notes may be viewed at the following URLs linked below.
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- Record
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