70 -- ABAQUS/STANDARD SOFWTWARE LEASE RENEWAL

Notice Date

February 5, 2001

Contracting Office

NASA/George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Procurement Office, Marshall Space Flight Center, AL 35812

ZIP Code

35812

Solicitation Number

8-1-1-E2-D2494

Point of Contact

Sherry H Landers, Contract Specialist, Phone (256) 544-4375, Fax (256) 544-0800, Email sherry.landers@msfc.nasa.gov -- Michael L. Sweigart, Contracting Officer, Phone (256) 544-0281, Fax (256) 544-8434, Email mike.sweigart@msfc.nasa.gov

E-Mail Address

Sherry H Landers (sherry.landers@msfc.nasa.gov)

Description

NASA/MSFC plans to issue a Request for Quotation (RFQ) for an ABAQUS standard software lease renewal. This procurement is being conducted under the Simplified Acquisition Procedures (SAP). NASA/MSFC intends to purchase the software lease renewal from Hibbitt, Karlsson & Sorensen, Inc., 1080 Main Street Pawtucket, Rhode Island 02860-4847, under the authority of FAR 13.106. Competition is impractical for the following reasons: (1) Hibbitt, Karlsson & Sorensen, Inc. (HKS), has proprietary copyright of the ABAQUS software. Review of current technical literature substantiates that only HKS can provide the software and associated technical support. (2) No other software has the extensive capabilities ABAQUS has for performing highly nonlinear finite element analyses necessary to support the structural analysis of flight hardware. (3) ABAQUS has been in use at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) for nine years. A significant number of training hours has been invested in learning and using ABAQUS software. This knowledge base and efficiency can not easily be transferred to another offeror's software package. There now exists at MSFC, a significant number of analytical models created in ABAQUS. A significant amount of time and resources would be required to recreate these models for use with any other software. (4) Renewal of the ABAQUS software lease is critical in order to minimize the schedule impact to programs at MSFC which rely on ABAQUS as a structural analysis tool. The Government intends to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12. Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform the effort in writing to the identified point of contact not later than 4:30 p.m. local time on February 20, 2001. Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed effort on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the government. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. An Ombudsman has been appointed. See NASA Specific Note "B". Any referenced notes can be viewed at the following URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nasanote.html

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Record

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