SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- RECOVERY - EARTH SCIENCE RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS COLLABORATIVE: EXTENDING THETERRESTRIAL OBSERVATION AND PREDICTION SYSTEM - VIRTUAL TOPS
- Notice Date
- 10/29/2009
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Ames Research Center, JA:M/S 241-1, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000
- ZIP Code
- 94035-1000
- Solicitation Number
- ARRA
- Response Due
- 11/13/2009
- Archive Date
- 10/29/2010
- Point of Contact
- Beatrice Morales, Grant Officer, Phone 650-604-2074, Fax 650-604-0932, Email beatrice.m.morales@nasa.gov - Kelly G Kaplan, Contracting Officer, Phone 650-604-5814, Fax 650-604-0912, Email kelly.g.kaplan@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
Beatrice Morales
(beatrice.m.morales@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- RECOVERY - THIS NOTICE IS PROVIDED FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY. NASA ARC INTENDSTO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT TO CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, MONTEREY BAY(CSUMB). A proposal is requested for research toward further development of the NASATerrestrial Observation and Prediction System to provide a collaborative modeling anddata processing framework built upon a supercomputing architecture for use by theEarth-system science research community. Research will be conducted on the development ofvirtualization technologies to build a community-focused data and modeling collaborativebased on the currently operating Terrestrial Observation and Prediction System (TOPS). Virtualization shows promise for allowing greater access to data, models and modelresults from NASA-funded activities in Earth science, especially in the realms of climateand ecosystem science. The primary objective and purpose of the the collaborative effort is the application andexpansion of NASA technologies and to provide a prototype platform for community modelingand data analysis for use by the greater scientific community. CSUMB possesses the unique capabilities required to perform the research described abovethat include: Full knowledge of the NASA TOPS and ability to integrate new models andsoftware libraries in TOPS to facilitate use of TOPS by scientific and applied users inthe field of Earth-system science; the ability to create a web-based communitycollaboration platform for exchange of information on models and datasets accessible viathe framework; the ability to apply hardware virtualization technologies to create aflexible modeling environment based on TOPS that includes capabilities for saving andsharing the environment state; and familiarity with the NASA Advanced Supercomputing(NAS) facility and ability to integrate the project with capabilities provided by theNAS.Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform theeffort in writing to the identified point of contact not later than 4:30 p.m. local timeon November 13, 2009. Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for thepurpose 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 opencompetition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretionof the government. This announcement will not result in a Request for Proposal; this announcement is forinformational purposes only. All questions and/or concerns must be submitted to the pointof contact contained herein in writing. The Government does not intend to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12.See Note26.Information about major upcoming ARC procurement actions is available athttp://ec.msfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eis/admin/admin.cgi?center=ARC. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 43.006 An Ombudsman has been appointed. See NASA Specific Note "B".
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