SPECIAL NOTICE
66 -- Intent to Sole Source Thinkmate GPU System
- Notice Date
- 8/22/2022 8:29:07 PM
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- RPO EAST (36C24E) PITTSBURGH PA 15212 USA
- ZIP Code
- 15212
- Solicitation Number
- 36C24E22Q0251
- Archive Date
- 08/29/2022
- Point of Contact
- Shannon Hukriede, Contract Specialist, Phone: (412) 822-3297
- E-Mail Address
-
shannon.hukriede@va.gov
(shannon.hukriede@va.gov)
- Awardee
- null
- Description
- The Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Boston Healthcare System intends to negotiate on a sole source basis, pursuant to FAR 6.302-1, with Source Code, LLC for a Thinkmate GPU System GPX QT24-24E2-8GPU. Investigators at the VA Boston HCS are conducting imaging research on neural plasticity and cortical reorganization after injury. This research involves running deep machine learning models on imaging data. Source Code, LLC, is the only known vendor offering the required specific components and salient characteristics needed to ensure data continuity in the ongoing study in the GPX QT24-24E2-8GPU: - 2 AMDs EPYC 7413 Series 24-core processors - 16 x 32GB PC4-25600 3200MHz DDR4 ECC RDIMM - 2.0TB Intel SSD DC P4510 Series SSD - 10 x 2.0TB SAS 3.0 12.0Gb/s 7200RPM - 2.5"" - Seagate Exos 7E2000 Series - 4 x NVIDIA A100 GPU - Computing Accelerator - 80GB HBM2 - PCIe 4.0 x16 GPU units - a 3-year Advanced Parts Replacement Warranty and NBD Onsite Service - running Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS Server Edition (64-bit) - Thinkmate Update Manager (OOB Management Package). This is a notice of intent and is not a request for competitive quotes; however, any responsible source who believes it is capable of meeting the requirement with the features described above, and who is the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), authorized dealer, authorized distributor or authorized reseller of all the items listed above, may submit a capability statement to the contracting office no later than Friday, August 26, 2022, 3:00 PM, EDT. Interest/capability statements may be sent to Shannon Hukriede at shannon.hukriede@va.gov. No telephone responses will be accepted. A determination not to compete the proposed requirement based upon the responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.
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- Record
- SN06435619-F 20220824/220823060732 (samdaily.us)
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