SPECIAL NOTICE
70 -- nTopology Engineering Design software floating licenses and maintenance support
- Notice Date
- 5/11/2023 5:53:11 AM
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 5132
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- Contracting Office
- DEPT OF COMMERCE NIST GAITHERSBURG MD 20899 USA
- ZIP Code
- 20899
- Solicitation Number
- NB187000-23-01866
- Response Due
- 5/22/2023 5:00:00 AM
- Archive Date
- 05/23/2023
- Point of Contact
- Prateema E. Carvajal, Phone: 3019754390
- E-Mail Address
-
prateema.carvajal@nist.gov
(prateema.carvajal@nist.gov)
- Description
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) intends to negotiate on a sole source basis, under authority of FAR 13.106-1(b) (1), with nTopology, for the acquisition of nTopology Regional Floating Software Licenses and maintenance support needed by the Office of Information Systems Management (OISM) at NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland. Background: NIST's Material Measurement Laboratory (MML) is investigating additive manufacturing-related issues for both metals and polymers. Projects underway include studying the fracture and fatigue properties of additive manufacturing materials, nano-mechanical properties of surfaces and flaws in these materials, modeling of microstructure evolution, and relationships between precursor material and final product quality. The Engineering Laboratory's Measurement Science for Additive Manufacturing (MSAM) program is exploring barriers to adoption of additive manufacturing, such as surface quality, part accuracy, fabrication speed, material properties and computational requirements. To mitigate these challenges, the program focuses on material characterization, real-time control of additive manufacturing processes, qualification methodologies and system integration. Sole Source determination is based on the need to acquire nTopology Regional Floating Licenses and maintenance support. This software package is being used for generating lattice structures within a 3-dimensioanl CAD envelope and include gyroids, triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) and honeycombs and provides integration of finite element solvers to enable generative topological optimization allowing direct export to existing equipment, avoiding potential loss from traditional workflows. If NIST does not purchase nTopology software license and maintenance support, it will limit NIST�s ability to perform state of the art lattice research, limiting the overall impact in the Additive Manufacturing (AM) Industry.� In addition, it will limit NIST�s recruitment options for postdocs and students that are trained on nTopology.� Numerous efforts from tissue engineering to automotive light weighing rely on these lattice structures, affecting a large number of direct and indirect NIST research areas.� There is a core need for standard development in lattice structures, which would suffer without the field-based designs in nToplogy. The salient characteristics for the software and maintenance support include the following: �- enable engineers to better define, represent, and lock down various engineering processes, digitally, allowing the integration of important data. - provide a mathematical method that optimizes material layout within a given design space, for a given set of loads, boundary conditions and constraints with the goal of maximizing the performance of the system. It must allow design that can attain any shape within the design space, instead of dealing with predefined configurations. - Solve topology optimization problems in a discrete sense is done by discretizing the design domain into finite elements. - Treat material densities inside elements as the problem variables. - Allow for modeling densities with continuous variables. - Allow gradient based algorithms that handle large amounts of continuous variables and multiple constraints. - Fluid-structure-interaction strongly coupled phenomenon and concerns the interaction between a stationary or moving fluid and an elastic structure. - Support 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional modeling and 3D printing. The North American Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 51320 � Software Publishers. The small business size standard is $41.5M. No solicitation package will be issued. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations; however, responses received by 8:00 am. Eastern Time on May 22, 2023, will be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete the proposed acquisition based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Interested parties that believe they could satisfy the requirements listed above for NIST may clearly and unambiguously identify their capability to do so in writing on or before the response date for this notice. This notice of intent is not a solicitation. Any questions regarding this notice must be submitted in writing via email to Prateema Carvajal at Prateema.carvajal@nist.gov. All responses to this notice of intent must be submitted so that they are received at Prateema.carvajal@nist.gov no later than the aforementioned due date.
- Web Link
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
- Zip Code: 20899
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 20899
- Record
- SN06679334-F 20230513/230511230106 (samdaily.us)
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