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D -- SOFTWARE LICENSE AND SUPPORT AGREEMENT FOR MONK AND MCBEND SOL 50775038 POC contact point: Elinor Cunningham, procurement specialist (301) 415-6580 Fax (301) 415-8157 This is a combined synopsis and Request for Quotation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This synopsis/Request for Quotation is issued as a Request for Quotation which incorporates provisions and clauses in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 90-42. This announcement constitutes the only Request for Quotation; a written request for quotation will not be issued. This procurement is under a 100 percent small business set aside. The Standard Industrial Classification code for the services required is 7372. REQUIREMENTS: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has a sole source requirement for the following software and support agreement: MONK and MCBEND. Quantity: one (1) of MONK and one (1) of MCBEND The period of performance will be for one (1) year with a one (1) year renewable option period. The Government intends to negotiate solely with AEA Technology Engineering Services, 241 Curry Hollow Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15236, for a firm fixed price purchase order for continuance of the MONK and MCBEND software and support. MONK and MCBEND codes are specifically designed for the analysis of criticality safety and shielding problems. The codes are documented, supported and tested and feature user interfaces that enable rapid development and checking of input models. Also, the codes provide unique output features that facilitate comparison of the computed neutronics and radiation physics characteristics of the systems in question to those of the experimental benchmarks used in validating the codes, modeling methods, and data libraries. AEA Technology Engineering Services provides compiled executables of the latest released versions of the MONK and MCBEND codes and all associated nuclear data libraries and auxiliary codes, including VISAGE and VISTA. The VISTA auxiliary code package will include Vista-Wire, Vista-Ray, the latest developmental version of Vista- Graph, and upon optional request by the NRC, Vista-Track USER SUPPORT: AEA Technology will provide the individual users with on-call user support by telephone, fax, and e-mail. Such support will be provided throughout the period of the agreement and will entail assistance in resolving questions or difficulties as they arise in any phase of configuring and using the codes, including input preparation and debugging, code execution, output processing and analysis of results. Analysis support will include any needed assistance in the plotting of quasi-pointwise cross section library data and in the scoring an spectral plotting of energy-binned local particle fluxes and reaction rates computed by MONK and MCBEND. All questions from NRC users shall be answered within two working days. Interested parties should submit written technical documentation demonstrating their ability to provide the software and user support specified to the NRC and a cost proposal. The following clauses are applicable to this acquisition: FAR 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions- Commercial Items applies to this acquisition. FAR 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes for Executive Orders-Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition with the following addition clauses: 52.222-26 Equal Opportunity; 52.222-35 Affirmative Action for Special Disabled and Vietnam Era Veterans; 52.222-36 Affirmative Action for Handicapped Workers; 52.222-37 Employment Reports on Special Disabled Veterans and Veterans of the Vietnam Era. FAR 52.219-8 Small Business Program Representation and Offerors Representations and Certifications shall completed and submitted with the Request for Quotation. Offers are due July 22, 1997, (faxes are acceptable) 5:00 p.m. eastern time and should be sent to U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Elinor Cunningham, Procurement Specialist, M/S T-7I2, Washington, DC 20555. Award of a purchase order will be made on or about July 30, 1997. (0184)

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