GRL Custom Workstation

This is a Synopsis/Solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6 and FAR 13, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotes are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. Quotes are being requested under solicitation number W9132V25S1730. This Request for Quote (RFQ) is issued as 100% set-aside for small business.

The associated NAICS code is 541512 – Computer Systems Design Services, and the size standard of 34M. This procurement is being conducted in accordance with regulation at FAR Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items and FAR Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures. The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2020-02 (12/23/2019) and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS), DPN 20190531(10/01/2019).

It is the responsibility of the contractor to be familiar with the applicable clauses and provisions. The clauses can be accessed in full text at https://www.acquisition.gov. The U. S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), Geospatial Research Laboratory (GRL) has a requirement for a Custom Workstation to be performed in accordance with the Description of Requirement (DOR) in the attached RFQ.

REQUIREMENT The Geospatial Research laboratory has a requirement to purchase a scientific workstation with high memory capacity and peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) connectivity to support multiple accelerator cards, including graphics processing units (GPUs) and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). This workstation will be used as a testbed in the development of lidar processing algorithms and will regularly process large volumes of data on the CPU and accelerator cards.

Selection Process: Technical experts at GRL will review each quote offered to GRL in response to this solicitation. The vendor is requested to provide clear quotes showing that their products meet all the listed requirements to ensure the technical experts can verify that an offered product will meet all the required standards.

Evaluation: The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation is the Lowest Price.

NOTE: ALL OFFERORS MUST BE REGISTERED IN THE SYSTEM FOR AWARD MANAGEMENT (SAM) BEFORE BEING ELIGIBLE FOR CONSIDERATION FOR AWARD. Information concerning SAM requirements may be viewed via the internet at www.sam.gov.

CLAUSES AND PROVISIONS:

FAR 52.202-1 Definitions;

FAR 52.204-7 System for Award Management;

FAR 52.212-1 Instructions to offerors – Commercial Items;

FAR 52.212-2 Evaluation – Commercial;

FAR 52.212-3 Alt 1 Offeror Representations and Certifications;

FAR 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions – Commercial Items;

FAR 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statues or Executive Orders – Commercial Items;

FAR 52.223-1 Biobased Product Certification

FAR 52.223-1 Encouraging Contractor Policies to Ban Text Messaging While Driving

FAR 52.223-22 Public Disclosure of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Reduction Goals-Representation The following clauses cited within FAR Clause 52.212-5 are applicable:

FAR 52.204-10 Reporting Execution compensation and First Tier Sub-Contract Awards;

FAR 52.209-6 Protecting the Government’s Interest when Subcontracting with Contractor Debarred, Suspended or Proposed for Debarment;

FAR 52.219-6 Notice of Total Small Business Set-Aside;

FAR 52.222-3 Convict Labor;

FAR 52.222-19 Child Labor;

FAR 52.222-50 Combating Trafficking in Persons;

FAR 52.225-13 Restrictions on Certain Foreign Purchases (Jun 2008);

FAR 52.226-8 Encouraging Contractor Policies to Ban Text Messaging while Driving; FAR 52-233-3 Protest After Award; The following DFARS Clauses and Provisions are applicable to this acquisition:

DFARS 252.203-7000 Requirement Relating to Compensation of Former DoD officials;

DFARS 252.203-7005 Representation Relating to Compensation of Former DoD officials;

DFARS 252.204-7011 Alternative Line Item Structure;

DFARS 252.211-7003 Item Unique Identification and Valuation;

DFARS 252.225-7001 Buy American Act and Balance of Payments Program;

DFARS 252.232-7003 Electronic Submission of Payment Requests and Receiving Reports;

DFARS 252.232-7010 Levies on Contract Payments;

DFARS 252.243.7001 Pricing of Contract Modifications;

DFARS 252.247-7023 Transportation of Supplies by Sea; Offerors are to include a completed copy of FAR provision 52.212-3 Offeror Representation and Certifications – Commercial items (May 2014), with their offer. Offerors may complete FAR 52,212-3 online at SAM: www.sam.gov. An offeror must state in their offer if they completed FAR 52.212-3 online and that they are up-to-date and valid. Quotes shall be submitted via e-mail to:

ethel.d.grant@usace.army.mil. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. There are no page limits; however, documents must be submitted by email; therefore, max file size is 15 megabytes. Please put the solicitation number in the subject line of all emails. Offers are due by 02 May 2025 at 2:00 PM Central Standard Time (CST). All questions concerning this solicitation must be submitted to the Government via email to ethel.d.grant@usace.army.mil.

The Government will accept questions up to two (2) calendar days of the due date. Answers to questions will be provided via live Q&A document posted at www.sam.gov. It is the offeror’s responsibility to check www.sam.gov often for answers to questions, new solicitations, and/or changes (AMENDMENTS) to existing ones.