70--Notice of Intent to Negotiate on a Sole Source Basis

This is a notice of intent to sole source to the MathWorks, Inc. for MATLAB software license, software license renewal and service agreement under authority of FAR 13.106-1(b) (1). The NAICS code is 511210. The size standard is $38.5 million. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) intends to negotiate and award a firm fixed price (FFP) contract to The Mathworks, Inc. The EPA, Office of Air and Radiation¿s Assessment and Standards Division (ASD), Compliance Division (CD), Transportation and Climate Division (TCD), Testing and Advanced Technology Division (TATD) has a requirement for new licenses and the renewal of existing MathWorks licenses and maintenance agreement to continue its advanced vehicle modeling work. The specific required software functionalities by the program office are listed below: ¿ Modeling environment, graphical components, and simulation for full vehicle and HIL systems ¿ Deterministic execution semantics with hierarchy, parallelism, temporal

operators, and events ¿ State diagrams, state transition tables, and state transition matrices representing finite state machines ¿ Flow charts, MatLab functions, and truth tables for representing algorithms ¿ State diagram animation, state activity logging, data logging, and integrated debugging for analyzing the design and detecting run-time errors ¿ Static and run-time checks for transition conflicts, cyclic problems, state inconsistencies, data-range violations, and overflow conditions ¿ Mealy and Moore finite-state machines This software has been utilized for various projects over many years and continuity of testing with existing software is necessary. The maintenance agreement shall include software updates, fix bugs, and support end users as needed. The MathWorks Inc. is the sole proprietor and only known distributor of this software in the United States. Therefore, the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source. Interested firms may identify its interest and capability to respond to the requirement within fifteen (15) days of the publication of this synopsis. THIS NOTICE IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE QUOTES. Email responses to Contracting Officer, Angela Lower at lower.angela@epa.gov. Telephone inquiries will not be honored.