SPECIAL NOTICE
D -- DMOL3 LICENSE RENEWAL
- Notice Date
- 3/9/2009
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- 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
- NB844080-9-03746
- Archive Date
- 3/31/2009
- 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 Department of Commerce/National Institute of Standards and Technology intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with Accelrys, Inc. 10188 Telesis Ct., Ste. 100, San Diego, CA to provide software maintenance for the period of April 1, 2009 through March 31, 2010 for DMOL3 and MS Visualizer Software licenses that are currently in used at NIST. The key feature for performance and function are the numerical atom-centered basis sets, which allow the same level of theory to be used for small organic molecules as for solids and surfaces. Other solid state codes that use a planewave basis set require very high-energy cutoffs, large memory, and long computation time that make describing molecular adsorption and hydrogen problematic and inefficient. No other commercial code has numerical basis sets. DMOL3 is also an all electron code, and does not require the use of less accurate pseudopotentials or muffin tins to describe core electrons, NIST also requires that the results be accessible through the Cerius2 and Materials Studio visualizers and interface software, which NIST already has in-house. DMOL3 is NIST’s primary computational instrument, and NIST had been using it for more than six (6) years to generate results. NIST needs to be able to compare the numerical results from new calculations with the old DMOL3 results, otherwise NIST has to repeat years of worth of work because of difference between methods. No other vendor offers DMOL3 or the MS Visualizer. Product meets all applicable 508 standards. A firm-fixed-price purchase order will be issued on or about March 20, 2009, The Government intends to solicit on this one source under the authority FAR 13.106-1(b). Interested concerns may identify their capabilities to provide renewal of these licenses by submitting a capability statement that demonstrates in written narrative format their ability to provide the required license renewals. Capability statements may be emailed to Janice.Moten@nist.gov. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procedure. This noticed is not a request for quotation. A determination by the Government whether to compete this proposed requirement is solely within the discretion of the Government.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: 301/b125, GAITHERSBURG, Maryland, 20899, United States
- Zip Code: 20899
- Zip Code: 20899
- Record
- SN01765437-W 20090311/090310133654-f062f1b0c5643895536bed41bce73a5c (fbodaily.com)
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