# High Performance Computing Services

Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/amdssnb1802024000103

- Solicitation number: AMD-SS-NB18020240001_03
- Notice type: Sources sought
- Status: Closed. Deadline was March 26, 2024 at 5:00 PM EDT
- Department: Department of Commerce
- Agency: National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Contracting office: Department of Commerce NIST (1333ND)
- NAICS: 541715 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- Product or service code: DA10 Support services, delivered as a service contract (SaaS or Subscription) involved with the analysis, design, development, code, test and release packaging services associated with application development projects, as well as off-the-shelf Business software.
- Place of performance: Gaithersburg, Maryland
- County: Montgomery County (FIPS 24031). https://abierto.us/counties/montgomery-county-md-24031
- City: Gaithersburg. https://abierto.us/cities/gaithersburg-md-2431175
- First posted: March 17, 2024
- Last posted: March 18, 2024
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/3aec366ef860413dbf3cbf06a557bbaa/view

## Description

AMENDMENT #1 - The purpose of this amendment is provide revised attachments. The Research Services Office in the Office of Information Systems Management supports NIST’s research IT environment, including laboratory automation, research data management and exchange, high performance scientific computing systems, and NIST’s scientific software portfolio.

The Office performs this work in service to NIST’s Laboratory Programs collectively supporting NIST’s mission: “To promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life.” In 2023 the Engagement and Performance Operations Center (EPOC)[1] released a “Deep Dive” of NIST’s research computing environment[2]; this study looked at NIST’s existing research computing environment along with several sample mission efforts across NIST’s Laboratories and how the existing research computing environment supports those efforts (or doesn’t).

Included in that report are recommendations for improving NIST’s access to external High Performance Computing (HPC) capabilities. Though NIST maintains multiple HPC systems of varying capacities on its campuses, the capacity of those on-premise systems is insufficient to satisfy all computational requirements. NIST is seeking sources that are capable of meeting (or exceeding) the series of requirement defined in the attached documents.

## Publications

- March 17, 2024: Sources sought, due March 26, 2024 at 5:00 PM EDT. Notice e5eb39990c924438ab262de5aeec4f3c. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/e5eb39990c924438ab262de5aeec4f3c/view
- March 18, 2024: Sources sought, due March 26, 2024 at 5:00 PM EDT. Notice 3aec366ef860413dbf3cbf06a557bbaa. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/3aec366ef860413dbf3cbf06a557bbaa/view

## Points of contact

- Monica Brown, monica.brown@nist.gov, 3019750642
- Romain Tweedy, romain.tweedy@nist.gov

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