SOURCES SOUGHT
70 -- ABAQUS LICENSE RENEWAL
- Notice Date
- 6/12/2008
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 511210
— Software Publishers
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 1640, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1640
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1640
- Solicitation Number
- NB861020805218
- Archive Date
- 6/20/2008
- Point of Contact
- Maria M. Gray,, Phone: (301)975-5577, Joseph L. Widdup,, Phone: (301) 975-6324
- E-Mail Address
-
maria.gray@nist.gov, joseph.widdup@nist.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Acquisition Management Division, on behalf of the NIST Building and Fire Research Laboratory, intends to negotiate with Dassault Systemes Simulia Corp., Providence, RI, on a sole source basis under the authority of FAR Subsection 13.106-1(b), for the purchase of renewal of special Abaqus License Configuration3 - 5 tokens (annual lease) for the period of July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009. Brand Name Justification: This requirement is for ABAQUS general purpose finite element software product offered by Dassault Systèmes. The product is designed to provide robust solutions to highly nonlinear problems such as prediction of complex structural behavior under fire. The software allows for modeling of heat distribution in structure exposed to realistic fire and a nonlinear analysis of structural behavior as a result of heat propagation. Although there are other FEM software available in the market, the ABAQUS software seems to provide the best possible approach in using different types of finite elements for separate thermal and structural analyses and incorporating the thermal results in structural analysis and vice versa. Based on the recent market research, NIST believes that Dassault Systemes Simulia Corporation is the only entity that can satisfy NIST’s requirement for renewal of annual lease of Abaqus license tokens. NIST anticipates negotiating and awarding a firm-fixed-price type purchase order to Dassault Systemes Simulia Corporation for this requirement. Interested parties that are authorized by Dassault Systemes Simulia Corporation to sell renewal of the aforementioned Abaqus tokens software licenses may clearly and unambiguously identify their capability to do so in writing on or before the response date for this notice. Such written responses will be used solely to determine whether competitive procedures could be used for this acquisition.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 1640, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1640, United States
- Zip Code: 20899-1640
- Zip Code: 20899-1640
- Record
- SN01592682-W 20080614/080612221107-c7a8300f8ff7a0d7d433f4dd9ba0ad29 (fbodaily.com)
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