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SAMDAILY.US - ISSUE OF OCTOBER 20, 2023 SAM #7997
SOLICITATION NOTICE

70 -- MATLAB Institute Wide License

Notice Date

10/18/2023 11:45:23 AM
 

Notice Type

Presolicitation
 

NAICS

513210 —
 

Contracting Office

NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH NICHD BETHESDA MD 20817 USA
 

ZIP Code

20817
 

Solicitation Number

NICHD-24-005
 

Response Due

10/30/2023 6:00:00 AM
 

Archive Date

10/31/2023
 

Point of Contact

Trish Matthews
 

E-Mail Address

trish.matthews@nih.gov
(trish.matthews@nih.gov)
 

Description

Title: MATLAB Institute Wide License Product Service Code: 7A21 � It and Telecom - Business Application Software (Perpetual License Software) NAICS Code: 513210 � Software Publishers ($41.5M) Place of Performance: Bethesda, MD 20892 Notice ID: NICHD-24-005 Description: REGULATORY AUTHORITY: The resultant contract will include all applicable provisions and clauses in effect through the Federal Acquisition Circular 2022-08 Effective 10/28/2022. This acquisition is conducted under the procedures prescribed in FAR Part 13 - Simplified Acquisition Procedures at an amount not exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold ($250,000). STATUTORY AUTHORITY: This acquisition is conducted under the authority of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13 - Simplified Acquisition Procedures, Subpart 13.106-1 (b)(1), Soliciting from a single source for purchases not exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold.� Contracts awarded using FAR Part 13 - Simplified Acquisition Procedures are exempt from the requirements of FAR Part 6 - Competition Requirements. INTRODUCTION: This is a notice of intent to award without providing for full and open competition (including brand-name). The National Institutes of Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Office of Acquisitions (OA) on behalf of the National Institute of Digestive and Diabetes and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) intends to award to MathWorks, Inc. for the procurement of the MATLAB software Institute Wide License (IWL) maintenance and support. The intended procurement is classified under NAICS code 513210 with a Size Standard of $41.5M. BACKGROUND: The mission of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) is to conduct and support medical research and research training and to disseminate science-based information on diabetes and other endocrine and metabolic diseases; digestive diseases, nutritional disorders, and obesity; and kidney, urologic, and hematologic diseases, to improve people�s health and quality of life. PURPOSE: The purpose of this requirement action is to purchase an IWL for the existing MATLAB software being used by NIDDK from MathWorks, Inc. This software will continue to help multiple laboratories with their research in the furthering of NIDDK�s mission. MATLAB is scientific software that is used to undertake numerical data analysis, mathematical modeling, simulations, real time data analysis, interfacing with other scientific applications, and m-file compilation. The software is a critical tool that is utilized for the completion of the scientific mission in several laboratories, branches, and cores within NIDDK. The software licenses associated with the various MATLAB scripts must be provided annually as either multiple individual licenses or as a single IWL. This requirement is for a single NIDDK IWL that will allow any individual within NIDDK to use MATLAB with any Toolbox.� It is necessary and vital for MathWorks, Inc. to provide the license for MATLAB because the software is proprietary to MathWorks, Inc. and the vendor is the only company that offers the software and the necessary services required for its maintenance and support.� Without this technology, the years of research that has been invested in creating scripts that work with MATLAB will no longer be accessible. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: January 1, 2024 through December 31, 2024 PLACE OF PERFORMANCE: National Institutes of Health National Institute of Digestive and Diabetes and Kidney Diseases 10 Center Drive Bldg 5, Room 133 Bethesda, MD 20892 CONTRACTING WITHOUT PROVIDING FOR FULL OR OPEN COMPETITION (INCLUDING BRAND-NAME) DETERMINATION: The determination by the Government to award a contract without providing for full and open competition is based upon the market research conducted as prescribed in FAR Part 10 - Market Research.� Only one source is available. Per FAR 13.106-1(b)(1), the Contracting Officer has determined MathWorks, Inc. to be the only reasonably available source to provide the MATLAB Institute Wide License maintenance and support required by the NIDDK.� �The software licenses associated with the various MATLAB scripts must be provided annually as either multiple individual licenses or as a single IWL.� It is necessary and very important that MathWorks provide the license for the MATLAB software because MathWorks created and manage the software and are the only company that offers the software and subsequently the necessary services to MATLAB software.� Years of research have been invested in creating scripts that work with MATLAB, and no other software will satisfy the requirement. Without this technology, years of research that have been invested in creating scripts that work with MATLAB will no longer be accessible, no other software will satisfy the requirement. CLOSING STATEMENT: This notice is not a request for competitive proposals. However, interested parties may identify their interest and capability in response to this notice. Responses to this notice shall contain sufficient information to establish the interested parties� bona-fide capabilities for fulfilling the requirement and include: descriptive literature, delivery timeframe, warranties and/or other information that demonstrates that the response meets all the foregoing requirements, the prompt payment discount terms, the F.O.B. Point (Destination or Origin), the Unique Entity ID (UEI), the Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN), and the certification of business size. All respondents must have an active registration in the System for Award Management (SAM) www.SAM.gov.� A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. The information received will be considered solely for the purposes of determining whether to proceed on a non-competitive basis or to conduct a competitive procurement. All responsible sources may submit a bid, proposal, or quotation which shall be considered by the agency. All responses to this notice shall be submitted electronically by 9:00 am Eastern Standard Time, on Monday, October 30, 2023, to the Contract Specialist, Trish Matthews, at trish.matthews@nih.gov.
 

Web Link

SAM.gov Permalink
(https://sam.gov/opp/759e4c64cb4748fd9feae73e4d6f7f69/view)
 

Place of Performance

Address: Bethesda, MD 20892, USA

Zip Code: 20892

Country: USA
 

Record

SN06862542-F 20231020/231018230042 (samdaily.us)
 

Source

SAM.gov Link to This Notice
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