DOD opens on ramp for supercomputing BOAs
By
Nick Wakeman
The Defense Department has opened an on ramp process to award more basic ordering agreements to companies with promising supercomputer offerings.
The Defense Department is looking to add more supercomputer capabilities and is looking to expand a current suite of basic operating agreements.
The expansion will have a value of $240 million over three years and is being managed by the Army transition of advanced defense technologies into Engineering and Support Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
The contract is known as FY20 TI-BOA On-Ramp. The notice number on Beta.Sam.Gov is PANHES-20-P-0000-000666.
DOD is looking for any size businesses that can provide high-performance computing capabilities that support research, development, testing, and evaluation. DOD wants to accelerate the development and transition of advanced defense technologies into warfighting capabilities. DOD’s goal is to strengthen U.S. leadership in supercomputing, communications and computation modeling.
The departments want so to buy commercially available high performance computing systems that have the processor, memory, desk I/O, interconnect, and operating system capabilities that can conduct complex, tightly coupled, large-scale, scientific calculations.
Submissions are due Jan. 20. DOD plans to award BOAs to all qualified offers. There is no target number of awards.