Award notice
SCINET NOC SOC
12314426C0015
Usda, Departmental Administration, Usda, Ocp-Pod-Acq-Mgmt-Branch-Ftc. Computer Systems Design Services.
Awarded
Trustees of Indiana University
$14,512,763.56 on the award notice, May 18, 2026, contract 12314426C0015
Description
As published on SAM.gov.
Trusties of Indiana was awarded a sole source Firm Fixed Price under FAR 6.103-1 only one responsible source under FAR parts 12/15. This effort will provide the unique SOCAAS and NOCaas Support within scientific Research computing environment. The current SCINET is a high-performance computing network that supports research in agricultural sciences.
The network is designed to help researchers analyze large amounts of data and perform complex simulations, allowing them to better understand and improve crop yields, animal health, and other aspects of modern agriculture. SCINet’s infrastructure includes a variety of powerful computing resources, such as high-performance clusters and cloud-based computing services, as well as advanced software and tools for data analysis, modeling, and visualization.
This network is separate from USDA’s core network infrastructure and requires specialized security and network operations, and folds into various other networks such as internet 2 and perfSonar
The contract, on USAspending
Federal procurement data the awarding office reported to FPDS, matched to this solicitation by its number.
- Recipient
- Trustees of Indiana University
- UEI
- YH86RTW2YVJ4
- CAGE
- 4E748
- Vendor location
- Bloomington, IN
- Contract
- 12314426C0015, definitive contract
- Obligated
- $2,700,673.00, potential $14,512,764
- Actions
- 1 between May 18, 2026 and May 18, 2026
- Competition
- Not Competed, 1 offer received
- Set-aside reported
- No Set Aside Used.
- Described as
- United States Department of Agriculture (Usda), Agriculture Research Service (Ars), Scientific Computing Initiative Network (Scinet) Network Operations as a Service (Nocaas) and Security Operations as a Service (Socaas) .
- Match
- award number 12314426C0015 equals the contract number; same awarding office 123144 (high confidence)
- Record
- USAspending award page
Publications
Every notice SAM.gov issued under this solicitation number, oldest first. Each is a separate record on SAM.
May 21, 2026
Award notice
Awarded to TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY Bloomington for $14,512,764. SAM.gov, notice 9ee0159a89f645b9b223197c117107d4
Points of contact
- Bryana Jordanbryana.jordan@usda.gov
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