Notice of Intent for Nihncats Rocky Linux Tender in USA - 146038643

Procurement Summary

Country: USA

Summary: Notice of Intent for Nihncats Rocky Linux Subscription Renewal

Deadline: 29 Jul 2026

Posting Date: 28 Jul 2026

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Notice Type: Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 146038643

Document Ref. No.: PCA-NCATS-06772

Competition: ICB

Financier: Self Financed

Purchaser Ownership: Public

Tender Value: Refer Document

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THIS IS A NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT, NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE QUOTES. A REQUEST FOR QUOTE (RFQ) WILL NOT BE ISSUED AND QUOTES WILL NOT BE REQUESTED.
The National Institute of Health-s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) intends to award a firm fixed price sole source contract under the authority of FAR 12.102(a), only one source being available to meet the Government's needs, to:
CIQ, Inc.
560 Mill St. Suite 302
Reno, NV 89502
The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) hereby submits a notice of intent to award a sole source firm fixed price purchase order for a Rocky Linux Subscription Renewal. Rocky Linux is a free Linux-based open-source enterprise operating system, a downstream of Red Hat Enterprise Linux or RHEL. This request is to renew the license subscription and get high-level technical support for this operating system. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this requirement is 541511.
NCATS has several systems that use Linux-based operating systems, opposed to Microsoft Windows or Mac OS systems from Apple. The High-Performance Computing cluster at NCATS is a Linux-based system which uses Rocky Linux as operating system. As Rocky Linux is a free operating system, the required high-level support is to ensure availability of the NCATS HPC cluster. The support for the operating system used on the NCATS HPC cluster is in support for scientific computing and a requirement to move forward with scientific analysis to be done using the HPC cluster, i.e., imaging analysis data processing, N3C data processing, Multi-Omics, Virtual Screening, Protein Folding, Docking, Molecular Dynamics Simulations, etc.
The period of performance will be for one (1) 12-month base period.
This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals, and no solicitation document exists for the requirement. This hereby constitutes a synopsis of the require...
Notice ID: pca-ncats-06772

Department/Ind. Agency: health and human services, department of

Sub-tier: office of the assistant secretary for administration (asa)

Office: program support center acq mgmt svc

Product Service Code: 7a21 - it and telecom - business application software (perpetual license software)

NAICS Code: 541511 - Custom Computer Programming Services

Inactive Dates: aug 13, 2026

Inactive Policy: 15 days after response date

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