HPCMP Innovative Technology Insertion of Advanced HPC Systems Commercial Solutions Openings (CSO)

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The Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) is issuing a Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) pursuant to DFARS Subpart 212.70. Under a CSO, the ERDC may competitively award proposals received in response to a general solicitation, similar to a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), to acquire innovative commercial products, technologies, or services based on a review of solutions by scientific, technological, or other subject matter expert peers within the ERDC. Innovative, for CSO purposes, means any new technology, process, or method, including research and development (R&D), or any new application of an existing technology, process, or method. Under this CSO, all products, technologies, and services shall be treated as commercial items; products, technologies, and services do not have to be commercially available to be submitted in response to this solicitation. If the solution meets the requirements of the regulation, the solution is treated as commercial whereby the Contracting Officer will utilize commercial procedures to develop and execute the resultant award. The DoW High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) is seeking innovative solutions to establish a new high-performance computing (HPC) system acquisition and support services model that leverages industry best practices to transform how the HPCMP procures, operates, and maintains its newest HPC systems for 2027. The HPC systems being considered are a combination of compute-intensive architectures and artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) platforms operating in either unclassified or classified (secret and above-secret) environments. The systems would be geographically distributed at up to three of the five HPCMP DoW Supercomputing Resource Centers (DSRCs). Since the systems will