Department of the Navy, Carderock Division Headquarters, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Code 3322; Kathy Bonturi, Bethesda, MD 20084-5000

A -- SERVICES IN THE FIELD OF MACHINERY/SHIP INTEGRATION SOL N00167-95-R-0146 POC Kathy Bonturi, Contract Specialist (301)227-1100, or C. Joan Miles, Contracting Officer (301)2270-1159. The Carderock Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (CDNSWC) intends to award a sole source contract to Boeing Information & Support Services of Seattle, WA to procure naval architectural services in the field of Machinery/Ship integration including software development and tailoring, algoritm development, training, data bank expansion and user documentation. The integration of Advanced Naval Machinery Systems into the Ship Design Process must be simulated using the DT-NURBS subroutine library that utilizes n-dimensional mathematical NURBS representations, which includes both the range and domain variables. Boeing Information & Support Services is the sole pioneer in this multi-dimensionsal capability. Specific technical expertise is required in the areas of Naval Combatant Ship Design, Ship Structures and Hydrodynamics, Advanced Naval Machinery Concepts and Algorithmic representation of machinery Components within a Ship. The computer programming expertise includes ANSI Fortran 77, Program Structure and Architecture of the Navy's Advanced Surface Ship Evaluation Tool (ASSET), Digital Command Language and UNIX. Software developed must be compatible with CDNSWC'S DIGITAL VAX/VMS Backup Format. It is anticipated that the contract shall be a three-year, Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity, Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee contract, obtained on a sole source basis by the authority of 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1), based on only one responsible source. Note 22 applies to the extent that the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under authority of FAR 6.302. (0262)

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