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Po NNX09CD71POPEN RESEARCH

Overview

Award facts

Period of performance
Jan 22, 2009 to Jul 22, 2009
Ended
Modifications
0
Latest action Jan 19, 2009
Contract type
Po
PIID NNX09CD71P

Description of requirement

DATA INTENSIVE SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING ON PETABYTE SCALABLE INFRASTRUCTURE THE INFRASTRUCTURE AND PROGRAMMING PARADIGM FOR PETABYTE-LEVEL DATA PROCESSING PERFORMED AT COMPANIES LIKE GOOGLE AND YAHOO SHED SOME PROMISING LIGHTS ON THE DATA-INTENSIVE SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING. OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE AND INEXPENSIVE COMMODITY HARDWARE MAKE PROPRIETARY TECHNOLOGIES WITHIN THE GRASP OF ACADEMIC COMMUNITIES. BY LEVERAGING THESE COMMERCIALLY PROVEN AND PUBLICLY AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGIES, WE ARE GOING TO DEVELOP A SUITE OF NOVEL DATA MANAGEMENT AND ANALYSIS LIBRARIES, AS AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING PRIMITIVE ALGORITHMS ORIGINALLY DESIGNED FOR WEB SEARCH. THESE LIBRARIES TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE UNDERLYING PETABYTE-SCALABLE DATA INFRASTRUCTURE, PARALLELIZE COMPUTATION TRANSPARENTLY AND ALLOW SCIENTISTS AND FUTURE COMMERCIAL USERS TO PERFORM RATHER COMPLEX TASKS (DATA MINING, DATA VISUALIZATION AND MACHINE LEARNING) IN A DATA INTENSIVE ENVIRONMENT.

Dates and value

Award date
Signed on Jan 19, 2009
Potential end of performance
Jul 21, 2009

Source: Federal Procurement Data System contract actions as published by SAM.gov and USAspending.gov; latest action recorded Jan 19, 2009. View on USAspending · Recipient on SAM.gov

Recipient

NameOPEN RESEARCH
LocationGAITHERSBURG, MD
UEIEBKHBLHPKUN8
Business sizeSmall businessSize at award, per the contracting officer
Parent companyOPEN RESEARCH

Business types and certifications

Women-ownedMinority-ownedFor-profit organizationFederally funded research and development centerCorporation (not tax-exempt)

As represented in SAM.gov at the time of the action.

Agency and place

Awarding and funding

Awarded by
  1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  2. NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
Funded by
  1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  2. GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER

Place of performance

Place of performance
Gaithersburg, Montgomery County, Maryland 20878-7851
Congressional district (place of performance)
MD-06As reported at the time of the action

Classification and competition

Classification

NAICS
541712RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHYSICAL, ENGINEERING, AND LIFE SCIENCES (EXCEPT BIOTECHNOLOGY)
Product or service (PSC)
AR11R&D-AERO & SPACE TECH-B RES (research and development)

Competition

Extent competed
Full and open competition after exclusion of sourcesD
Solicitation procedures
Negotiated proposal/quoteNP
Set-aside
Small business set aside - totalSBA
Contract pricing
Firm fixed priceJ
Offers received
6

Contract details

Subcontracting plan
Plan not requiredB
Major program
Data intensive scientific computing on petabyte sc
Cost Accounting Standards clause
No - CAS waiver approvedN
Service Contract Act labor standards
No
Government-furnished property
Transaction does not use GFE/GFPN
Bundled requirement
Not a bundled requirementD
Consolidated requirement
No
Undefinitized action (terms not final)
No
Multi-year contract
No
Performance-based service acquisition
Yes - service where PBA is used.Y

Transaction history

Modification history

Base award
Jan 19, 2009Base obligation at award: $99,964
Latest action
Jan 19, 2009 — Base awardModification 0; obligation change +$99,964
Actions by type
  • Base award1
1 actions recorded, Jan 19, 2009 to Jan 19, 2009; each action counted once.

All contract data

All contract data

Every other field reported for this award, as of its latest reported action

Competition

Evaluation preference
No preference used
Simplified procedures for commercial items
No

Pricing and financing

Paid by purchase card
No
Latest action: change in base and exercised options
$99,964
Latest action: change in base and all options
$99,964

Socio-economic and policy

Recovered materials and sustainability
No clauses included and no sustainability incluC
EPA-designated product
Not requiredE
Research program (SBIR/STTR)
Small business innovation research program phase i actionSR1
Walsh-Healey Act (materials and supplies)
No
Construction wage rates (Davis-Bacon)
No

Place and origin

Domestic or foreign entity
U.S. owned businessA
Place of manufacture
Not a manufactured end productC

Structure

Award or IDV
Award
Award type
PoB
Awarding agency code
8000
Awarding sub-tier code
8000
Contracting office code
NSSC0
Transactions recorded under this award key
1

Funding

Funding agency code
8000
Funding sub-tier code
8000
Funding office code
GSFC0