Meridium Software and Professional Services

NASA/LaRC has a requirement for Meridium Software and Professional Services. NASA/LaRC intends to purchase the items from Meridium, Inc. Meridium is the developer and only vendor who provides the proprietary software licenses for its products. It is imperative to procure Meridium software to maintain compatibility with existing Meridium products currently in use at NASA LaRC. NASA LaRC has invested in a number of Meridium products and services as part of its Condition Based Maintenance Effort, including APM Framework, Asset Health manager, Policy Manager and Training. It would take substantial duplication of resources and time for another source to provide the required software and services, and this additional expense is not expected to be recovered through competition. Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform the effort in writing to the identified point of contact not later than 12:30 p.m. local time on 06/20/2016. Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed effort on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the government. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency. NASA Clause 1852.215-84, Ombudsman, is applicable. The Center Ombudsman for this acquisition can be found at http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/pub/pub_library/Omb.html.