SOLICITATION NOTICE
99 -- HPC Technology Insertion 2010 (TI-10) NOTICE OF PRE-SOLICITATION BRIEFING
- Notice Date
- 3/11/2009
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 334111
— Electronic Computer Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- General Services Administration, Federal Acquisition Service (FAS), Assisted Acquisition Services Division (4QFA), 401 West Peachtree ST NW, Ste 2700, Atlanta, Georgia, 30308, United States
- ZIP Code
- 30308
- Solicitation Number
- TI-10
- Archive Date
- 12/31/2009
- Point of Contact
- Deborah E. Joeckel,, Phone: (205) 731-0135 x205
- E-Mail Address
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deborah.joeckel@gsa.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The General Services Administration, Federal Acquisition Service, Assisted Acquisition Services Division (GSA,FAS,AASD), on behalf of the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP), is issuing this notice to inform industry that an initial Request For Quotation (Phase I) for the Technology Insertion FY10 (TI-10) will be issued on or about May 29, 2009. Phase I of the RFQ will be issued primarily to determine general pricing, performance (via a set of DoD Benchmarks) and related high performance computing (HPC) functional capabilities for HPC systems that can be delivered on or before June 2010. A down select to the most qualified quotes will be conducted using the Phase I supplied information. Phase II of the RFQ will request selected offerors to provided detailed pricing, system configuration, maintenance, and delivery information for one or more specific HPC system configurations to significantly improve the DoD's HPC capability and capacity. Issuance of a final RFQ (Phase II) is anticipated on or about September 22, 2009 and contract awards are anticipated in late December of 2009. The application benchmark codes anticipated to be included in the TI-10 application benchmark suite are recognized by the following names: AMR, AVUS, CTH, GAMESS, HYCOM, ICEPIC, and LAMMPS. It is estimated that a system with approximately 1024 cores will be required to execute the benchmark test cases. Note that all benchmark runtimes submitted in response to the RFQ are considered guaranteed benchmark runtimes that will be verified at time of system acceptance. The DoD HPCMP has extensive experience with the deployment of large scale commercially available HPC systems. Meeting the guaranteed system delivery and acceptance timeline is critical to the HPCMP addressing its mission. As a result, the resulting contract(s) will contain consideration clauses citing four (4) percent of the purchase price per month for late system delivery and acceptance and the right to reject the system in the event of a late or unsuccessful system acceptance. The HPCMP and GSA have conducted annual Technology Insertions since 2001 and have learned that the assembly and delivery of large production ready HPC systems (TI-09 awards consisted of multiple systems exceeding 10,000 cores each) between December and the following June is challenging. It has been determined that an important element for success includes contractual relationships directly between the Government and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of HPC class systems. As a result, responses to the RFQ will only be considered from original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) who: (1) have offerings obtainable via existing GSA Contracts (held directly by the OEM) under Schedule 70, General Purpose Commercial Information Technology Equipment, Software, Services; (2) have demonstrated the sustainment of a commercially available HPC system's product line with success in large scale manufacturing, deployment and maintenance of commercially available, production HPC systems; and (3) have SECRET level clearances allowing access to sensitive DoD technology and facilities. Furthermore, the Government financial appropriation associated with this acquisition does not permit the purchase of any supercomputer which is not manufactured in the United States. Interested vendors are required to submit a NTE 10 page paper providing clear evidence of their ability to meet the above requirements to Ms. Deborah Joeckel at deborah.joeckel@gsa.gov by COB April 10, 2009. In cases where the OEM is acquiring substantial portions of a potentially offered system from third party suppliers, please be specific in justifying your role as an OEM with a sustainable HPC product line versus, for example; a reseller, an assembler or an integrator of HPC systems. An evaluation of the information submitted will be conducted and letters of eligibility will be distributed to qualified vendors by May 1, 2009. An information briefing will be offered to pre-qualified vendors. The briefing is currently scheduled for the morning of June 4, 2009 beginning at 9:00AM EDT and will be followed by individual 30-minute vendor-specific one-on-one information exchange meetings scheduled for the afternoon of June 4 and, as needed, on June 5 to host all qualified vendors. For more details about the HPCM Program visit www.hpcmo.hpc.mil. Examples of previous TI-XX RFQs can be found under "Community" then "Technology Insertion" in the left hand vertical window of the HPCMP homepage. Questions can be submitted to GSA at any time during the RFQ process. Schedule Summary: MAR 11, 2009 Issue FedBiz Announcement APR 10, 2009 Vendor Qualification Statements Due MAY 01, 2009 Final Determination of Qualified Vendors MAY 29, 2009 GSA Releases Phase I RFQ with Benchmark Suite JUN 04-05, 2009 Pre-quote Briefing and One-On-One Question and Answer AUG 07, 2009 Phase I Quotes with Benchmark Timings due to GSA SEP 21, 2009 Notification of Phase II Down select SEP 22, 2009 GSA Releases Phase II RFQ OCT 13, 2009 Phase II Quotes due to GSA DEC 18, 2009 NLT Date for Award(s) JUN 01, 2010 HPC System Site Availability SEP 15, 2010 NLT Final Acceptance
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Multiple HPC System Locations TBD, TBD, United States
- Record
- SN01766592-W 20090313/090311215252-3c67b803a21a80efe02f55d4ed38b789 (fbodaily.com)
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