SOLICITATION NOTICE
70 -- ST-Developer software maintenance and renewal
- Notice Date
- 5/9/2008
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541512
— Computer Systems Design Services
- 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
- NB823120-8-04781
- Point of Contact
- Janice M Moten, Phone: (301)975-6307
- E-Mail Address
-
Janice.Moten@nist.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) intends to negotiate, on a sole source basis under the authority of FAR 13.106(b)(1), with Step Tools, for purchase of Part Number STS21000-2 ST-Machine Software Maintenance STA2000-1 Software for Seimens 840D Computer numerical controller. Period of Performance 4/24/08 through 4/24/09. ST-Developer is a software library that provides a C++ programming interface for reading and writing data in ISO 10303 (STEP) format. Although ISO 10303 data is a standard, the C++ functions for reading and writing this data are vendor-specific. Several vendors provide software programming libraries for STEP, such as STEP Tools (our sole source) and EPM Tools. NIST has extensive software written using the STEP Tools vendor-specific programming functions in ST-Developer, and no other company provides these vendor-specific functions. We estimate that our investment in the software we have written using ST-Developer is on the order of tens of person-years. Switching to another product, while possible, would require that we learn the new vendor-specific functions, re-write our software code base, and test it. The cost and time associated with such a re-write would be prohibitive. For this reason, we are requesting that STEP Tools Inc. be selected as the sole source for the ST-Developer product. Step Tools is the only source able to perform the entire work required. The Government anticipates the award of a firm-fixed- price purchase order. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations; however, companies that believe they can fulfill the requirement may provide a written response to this notice and provide evidence to substantiate that capability. A determination by the Government whether to compete this proposed requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competition. License(s) must be Section 508 compliant.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: 301/B125, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1640, United States
- Zip Code: 20899-1640
- Zip Code: 20899-1640
- Record
- SN01570326-W 20080511/080509220139-001bc35f05f7b4951c92463f10e3ef16 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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