NOTE:

THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION OR AN INDICATION THAT A CONTRACTUAL COMMITMENT WILL EXIST AS A RESULT OF THIS RFI. This Sources Sought Notice (SSN) is in support of market research and procurement planning being conducted by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Washington, DC. This SSN is for informational and planning purposes only and does not guarantee that this will be competed via FBO. The Government assumes NO financial responsibility for any costs incurred. A solicitation package is not available at this time.

Contracting Office Address: NRL, 4555 Overlook Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20375

OBJECTIVE: The intent of this RFI is to gauge industry interest and search for potential sources capable of fulfilling a requirement for equipment and components for Computer Nodes. The draft minimum technical requirements for the effort are in the below specifications. The Government is currently in the planning stages for this procurement and may continue to modify the language within the requirement as necessary. These specifications do not necessarily represent the final specifications.

 (1x) Head Node

•               (2x) Intel Xeon Gold 6230 CPUs

•               192 GB DDR4 2933 MHz ECC Memory

•               (2x) Minimum 240 GB SATA III SSD (Operating System–RAID 1)

•               (1x) Minimum 1 TB SATA III SSD (Scratch Disk)

•               Hardware RAID

•               (1x) ConnectX-3 Infiniband (VPI) Adapter or better including cable (for an existing Mellanox QDR switch)

•               (1x) ConnectX-5 Infiniband (VPI) Adapter

•               VGA Port (For connection to existing console)

(TDB) CPU Nodes

•               (2x) Intel Xeon Gold 6230 CPUs

•               192 GB DDR4 2933 MHz ECC Memory

•               (1x) Minimum 240 GB SATA III SSD

•               (1x) ConnectX-5 Infiniband (VPI) Adapter

•               VGA Port (For connection to existing console)

(3x) GPU Nodes

•               (8x) Nvidia Tesla V100 16GB GPUs

•               (2x) Intel Xeon Gold 6230 CPUs

•               192 GB DDR4 2933 MHz ECC Memory

•               (1x) Minimum 240 GB SATA III SSD

•               (1x) ConnectX-5 Infiniband (VPI) Adapter

•               VGA Port (For connection to existing console)

(1x) Storage Module

•               Minimum 48 TB SATA III Hard Drives (RAID 10 to produce 24TB storage for /home directory)

•               Cable (that can connect to SFF-8088 port on existing node)

(1x) Management Network

•               Ethernet switch (es)

•               Cables

(1x) Infiniband Network

•               (2x) Mellanox 100Gb/s SB7790 Infiniband Switches

•               Cables filling all ports

(1x) Power Distribution

•               AP 7598 PDUs

CONTRACTOR RESPONSE FORMAT: Interested parties, at a minimum, shall supply all of the below required information in a Capability Statement.

1.   CONTACT INFORMATION:

a)  Company Name and Address

b)  Point of Contact for questions/clarification

c)  Telephone Number and e-mail address

d)  DUNS Number, CAGE Code

e)  PSC Code of the proposed solution (SEE https://psctool.us)

f)   Business Size/Socioeconomic Categories

2.   TECHNICAL INFORMATION:

a)   List of capabilities/resources relevant to the above material list.

3.   COMMERCIALITY OF PROPOSED ITEM

a) Whether item(s) offered/proposed is a commercial item and is customarily used by the general public or non-government entities for the other than Government purposes.

b) Whether the item has been sold, leased, or licensed to the general public, and if so, identify one or more such sales, leases, or licenses to document the commerciality of the item.

4.   PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
a) Provide a description of how the proposed product will meet or exceed the each of the specifications as it is anticipated that ultimate evaluation will be best values and a go/no go basis.

b) Provide a product brochure and highlight the areas that meet or exceed specifications.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENT DETAILS:

Responses should be no more than 5 pages.