NASA ARC Solicitation: High End Computing Network Services

Synopsis – May 14, 2013

General Information

Solicitation Number: NNA13475474L-UTU
Posted Date: May 14, 2013
FedBizOpps Posted Date: May 14, 2013
Recovery and Reinvestment Act Action: No
Original Response Date: May 23, 2013
Current Response Date: May 23, 2013
Classification Code: D — Information technology services, incl. telecom services
NAICS Code: 517919

Contracting Office Address

NASA/Ames Research Center, JA:M/S 241-1, Moffett Field, CA 94035-0001

Description

NASA has a requirement for securing high-performance networking services to support High End Computing (HEC) network traffic between NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and maintaining high performance peering in support of both HEC and agency Office of Chief Information Officer (OCIO) advanced networking efforts.

Scope of requirement:

The high performance networking service that is being sought has several components:

* Corporation For Education Network Initiatives In California (CENIC) Membership o Enables NASA to the ability to exchange traffic between NASA and CENIC associates (Caltech, Stanford, UC campuses, SDSC, USC, some K-12 schools in CA, etc.) at a rate of 10 Gbps via CENIC HPR o Provides NASA with a diverse backup 1 Gbps to the primary 10 Gbps HPR connection o Access to CENIC peers o Ability to buy additional waves on the CENIC network at attractive prices o Ability to purchase use of CENIC’s commodity ISP services which include: Williams Communications Services, LLC; CenturyLink, Inc.; Level 3 Communications, Inc.

* Pacific Wave Membership o Enables NASA to leverage a distributed peering network in Sunnyvale, CA, Los Angeles, CA and Seattle, WA o Provides NASA with a shared 10 Gbps peering connection to the access the Pacific Wave peers.

* 6 pairs of dark fiber and maintenance on them from the Ames Gateway building (N254) to the Sunnyvale, CA Level 3 Communications co-location facility at 1360 Kifer and 1380 Kifer Rd, including the option to purchase additional dark fiber pairs as needed.

* Dedicated 10 Gbps wave to enable NASA to send traffic between the Level 3 Communication facility in Sunnyvale, CA and Los Angeles, CA.

* Layer 2 (VLAN) connectivity to Internet2’s ION service, enabling dynamic dedicated circuits in support of periodic need for high capacity links to researchers at academic institutions.

* Co-location – 1 rack and power in the Sunnyvale, CA Level 3 Communications building 1380.

* Enables NASA to make use of limited term 100GbE interconnection for technology evaluation and demonstration purposes. Such demonstrations can facilitate network research under the OCIO Communications Emerging Technology group or facilitate activities that take place at the annual Supercomputing conferences under the HEC.

* Cross-Connects o Reduced pricing for cross-connects in the Level 3 Communication facilities in Sunnyvale, CA, and Los Angeles, CA o Cross-connect between two Level 3 Communications buildings (1360 and 1380) in Sunnyvale, CA.

NASA/ARC intends to acquire the services through a one-year base contract with four one-year options from:

CORPORATION FOR EDUCATION NETWORK INITIATIVES IN CALIFORNIA (CENIC) at: 16700 VALLEY VIEW AVE STE 400 LA MIRADA, CA 90638-5830

The Government intends to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12.

Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform the effort in writing to Uyen.K.Tu@nasa.gov not later than 4:30 p.m. PST on May 23, 2013.

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 .

Point of Contact

Name: Uyen K Tu
Title: Contract Specialist
Phone: 650-604-4958
Fax: 650-604-0912
Email: uyen.k.tu@nasa.gov

Name: Veronica L Gutierrez
Title: Contracting Officer
Phone: 650-604-5626
Fax: 650-604-0932
Email: veronica.l.gutierrez@nasa.gov