Federal Computer Acquisition Center (FEDCAC), 83 Hartwell Avenue, Lexington, MA 02173-3115

70 -- SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING, FEDCAC PROJECT 110 SOL TFF-97-010 POC Mary E. Doherty, Contracting Officer (617)860-7103, mary.doherty@gsa.gov; Barbara Brash, Contract Specialist (617)860-7118, barbara.brash@gsa.gov WEB: Federal Computer Acquisition Center, http://www.gsa.gov/fedcac. E-MAIL: Federal Computer Acquisition Center, mary.doherty@gsa.gov. FEDCAC is soliciting sources to purchase a range of computer systems for scientific computation at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Government is not interested in the purchase of desktop workstations, but rather in the purchase of systems to be used as servers on the NIH network. At the lower limit, the Government desires systems which can accommodate at least four processors in a shared memory configuration. At the upper limit, the Government desires highly parallel systems with computing capability greater than its currently installed 94-node IBM RS/6000 Scalable POWERParallel system (SP). The Government is interested in systems that use either the Microsoft Windows NT operating system or the UNIX operating system. Conventional utility programs, program development tools, and libraries of communication, mathematical and graphical subroutines are of interest, but the Government does not anticipate the purchase of scientific application programs. Aside from hardware and software maintenance, the Government anticipates requiring only limited support services. The Government anticipates a multiple award, fixed price, IDIQ contract. The Government intends that each contractor should be able to provide the full spectrum of required hardware. In order to be included on the source list, qualified firms are required to submit a written request, via email to mary.doherty@gsa.gov or barbara.brash@gsa.gov. Sources responding to this notice shall indicate whether they are large, small, small disadvantaged, or women-owned business. For this synopsis a business is considered small if its average receipts for its preceding three (3) fiscal years do not exceed $18 million dollars. The SIC Code for this acquisition is 7374. This Sources Sought Synopsis is for information and planning purposes only, and does not constitute a Request for Proposal, and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government. (0098)

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