SOURCES SOUGHT
B -- NASA CENTER FOR CLIMATE SIMULATION
- Notice Date
- 5/23/2011
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 210.Y, Greenbelt, MD 20771
- ZIP Code
- 20771
- Solicitation Number
- RFI-2011NCCS
- Response Due
- 6/20/2011
- Archive Date
- 5/23/2012
- Point of Contact
- Keith Long, Contract Specialist, Phone 301-286-5075, Fax 301-286-5373, Email Keith.Long@nasa.gov - Makara K. Nevils, Contracting Officer, Phone 301-286-4909, Fax 301-286-5373, Email Makara.K.Nevils@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
Keith Long
(Keith.Long@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) hereby requests information to identifypotential sources for specialized high-end computing support services to the SciencesDirectorate. The NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) provides high performancecompute, storage, network, and data distribution services in support of science at GSFC.Among the requirements for these support services are high performance computing systemarchitecture and design; acquisition, integration, and acceptance support; systemadministration services for high end computers, storage, and archive; data managementservices designed around the effective analysis and dissemination of large data sets;user services and help desk for level 1 and 2 tickets; application services to includemigration, porting, tuning, optimizations, and parallelization; and security and networkmanagement.The support services for this effort include, but are not limited to, the following:System architecture and designAdvanced planning and test bedAcquisition servicesIntegration servicesAcceptance testingSystem administration of clustersSystem administration of the data portalSystem administration of the archiveNetwork system administrationNIST FISMA based IT SecurityInfrastructure, including facilities managementHelp desk; Level 1 and 2 ticket responsesDocumentation and website managementApplication support to include migrations, porting, tuning, optimization, andparallelizationSoftware engineering, application development, and operational support for datamanagement services (DMS) and Earth System Grid (ESG) servicesSoftware engineering support and development for cloud computing (CC) services designed to support large scale data analytics and high performance computingDevelopment of data services to publish and facilitate the utilization of climatefor risk mitigation and adaptationThe statement of work for the current NCCS contract is hereby provided as a point ofreference. Please note that the statement of work is subject to change.No solicitation exists; therefore, do not request a copy of the solicitation. If asolicitation is released it will be synopsized in FedBizOpps and on the NASA AcquisitionInternet Service. It is the potential offerors responsibility to monitor these sites forthe release of any synopsis or solicitation.Should this Request For Information (RFI) result in a Request For Proposal, a singleaward, cost plus fixed fee / indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity contract with a five(5) year period of performance is anticipated.Interested offerors/vendors having the required specialized capabilities to meet theabove requirement should submit a capability statement of ten (10) pages or lessindicating the ability to perform all aspects of the effort described herein.Responses to this RFI must include the following: name and address of firm, size ofbusiness, average annual revenue for past three (3) years and number of employees;ownership; business size standard, such as, large, small, small disadvantaged, 8(a),HUBZone, Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SD-VOSB), Veteran Owned SmallBusiness (VOSB) and/or Women-Owned; number of years in business; affiliate information;parent company, joint venture partners, potential teaming partners, prime contractor (ifpotential sub) or subcontractors (if potential prime); list of customers covering thepast five (5) years (highlight the relevant work performed, contract numbers, contracttype, dollar value of each procurement; and point of contact address and phone number).This RFI is for information and planning purposes and is not to be construed as acommitment by the Government, nor will the Government pay for information requested.Respondents will not be notified of the results of the evaluation. Respondents deemedfully qualified will be considered in any resultant solicitation for the requirement.The Government reserves the right to consider a small business or 8(a) set-aside businessbased on responses hereto. All responses shall be submitted to Keith Long via email nolater than June 20, 2011. Please reference 2011NCCS in any response. All questions, inquires, and request for additional technical details must be directed tothe Points of Contact identified below.
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