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The COMMERCE, DEPARTMENT OF | NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY has issued a Tender notice for the procurement of a Renewal of Sonnet software maintenance support in the USA. This Tender notice was published on 23 Nov 2025 and is scheduled to close on 06 Dec 2025, with an estimated Tender value of Refer Document. Interested bidders can access detailed Tender information, eligibility criteria, and complete bidding documents by referencing TOT Ref No. 130717400, while the tender notice number is NB187000-26-00099 and Registering on the platform.
Procurement Summary
Country: USA
Summary: Renewal of Sonnet software maintenance support
Deadline: 06 Dec 2025
Posting Date: 23 Nov 2025
Other Information
Notice Type: Tender
TOT Ref.No.: 130717400
Document Ref. No.: NB187000-26-00099
Financier: Self Financed
Purchaser Ownership: Public
Tender Value: Refer Document
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Primary POC: Prateema Carvajal (prateema.carvajal@nist.gov)
Secondary POC: Monica Brown (monica.brown@nist.gov)
Title: Sonnet software maintenance support renewal - Combined Sources Sought/Notice of Intent to Sole Source
BACKGROUND
***THIS IS A COMBINED SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE AND NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE***
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking information from sources that may be capable of providing maintenance support to existing Sonnet software licenses. If no alternate sources are identified, the Government intends to issue a Sole Source Award to Sonnet Software. (126 N. Salina Street, Syracuse, NY 13202) under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b). The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 513210, Software Publisher with a size standard of $47.0 M.
This requirement is for the maintenance and support of a current NIST-used product that is a critical component of NIST's existing enterprise IT architecture as defined in the NIST Technology Reference Model for Central IT Services.
NIST currently has a license for the Sonnet platform by Sonnet Software, Inc., for the industry's most accurate and reliable high frequency planar EM software. Sonnet software has been identified as a need essential to NIST researchers in a number of Laboratories throughout NIST for several years. NIST is seeking software support services to provide additional software licenses maintenance, security upgrades, and technical support for NIST Sonnet software packages.
The continued maintenance and support of the software provided by Sonnet Software is important for the NIST researchers.
Replacing it with another product would:
- Require the purchase of new start-up licenses of the competing product at approximately 4-5 times the cost of purchasing this maintenance and support.
- Retraining all staff in the use of the replacement product.
- Rewriting all the code written in this...
Notice ID: nb187000-26-00099
Department/Ind. Agency: commerce, department of
Sub-tier: national institute of standards and technology
Office: dept of commerce nist
Product Service Code: dd01 - it and telecom - service delivery support services: itsm, operations center, project/pm (labor)
NAICS Code: 513210 - Software Publishers
Inactive Dates: dec 21, 2025
Inactive Policy: 15 days after response date
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