SPECIAL NOTICE
99 -- Sole Source Award to NRAO for VLBI DiFX correlator, Software Maintenance and Support Services
- Notice Date
- 8/20/2020 7:31:32 AM
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- NAVSUP
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Response Due
- 8/25/2020 8:00:00 AM
- Archive Date
- 09/09/2020
- Point of Contact
- Joyce Kichman, Phone: 2156979678, Fax: 2156979742
- E-Mail Address
-
joyce.kichman@navy.mil
(joyce.kichman@navy.mil)
- Description
- This is a sole source notice to be awarded to the incumbent NRAO for the services described below.� USNO requires contractor support with the experience and knowledge of the geodetic VLBI and in operating and maintaining the DiFX correlator. This will involve ongoing training, both formal and informal with people working in geodetic VLBI, both at USNO and elsewhere, travel to other VLBI facilities for meetings and training, and acting as system administrators for several Linux systems. The scientists must be able to obtain and maintain a secret government clearance. This is a sole source action to be awarded as a firm fixed price type contract to NRAO.� The proposed acquisition will acquire science and engineering support services for the Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) Software Interagency DiFX Correlator (DiFX SWC) at USNO, Washington DC.� The contractor support provided by the NRAO will include: support for correlator-specific request ticket issues; upgrades to correlator specific software; repairs; recovery from software and hardware failures; technical assistance with unusual modes; routine inspections; validation activities; critical updates to the USNO Correlator Project book; supplying hardware maintenance for DiFX SWC computers, highspeed file system and storage servers, internal network switches; supplying 3rd party vendor software licenses (as required by IA an IT needs); and visits for inspection and upgrades.� The team at NRAO has the requisite knowledge and expertise to provide the DiFX correlator support and upgrades for the U.S. Naval Observatory.� If NRAO fails to provide the services required to maintain this system, the system would be rendered useless, thus endangering the mission requirement of providing high-precision Earth Orientation for the Department of Defense in the event of a system breakdown. The personnel at NRAO are considered world leaders in the theory and practice of DiFX SWC operations.� There is no better organization to which difficult questions concerning DiFX SWC operations can be referred. No other firm possesses this unique, invaluable, and critical expertise.
- Web Link
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SAM.gov Permalink
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Rockville, MD 20850, USA
- Zip Code: 20850
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 20850
- Record
- SN05766706-F 20200822/200820230148 (samdaily.us)
- Source
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