A -- Seeking Participation in Meshing and Geometry Innovation Collaboration (MAGIC)

RESPONSE NOTICE: ALL RESPONSES MUST BE SUBMITTED TO Rudolph Griego, CRADA Admin., Phone +1 (555) 000-0000, Fax +1 (555) 000-0000, Email contact@example.gov PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CONTACT OR SEND ANY RESPONSES TO DONALD ROSEBOROUGH, WHOSE NAME INCORRECTLY APPEARED AS THE CONTACT PERSON IN THE ORIGINAL POSTING DATED MARCH 19, 2008." Sandia National Laboratories is seeking U.S. commercial and U. S. research participants willing to participate in the formation of a new Meshing And Geometry Innovation Collaboration. This partnership will be executed as a series of Cooperative Research And Development Agreements (CRADA). The technical goal of this consortium is to produce the next generation software tools to facilitate model generation (i.e. meshes) for computational analyses. The model generation technology includes means to create, import, defeature and cleanup geometric CAD models from a heterogeneous CAD environment expected to persist within the DOE and DoD. It also includes the meshing, or discretization of this geometry into acceptable elements for wildly varying analyses. Both surface (quads / tris / quad-dominant) and volume (hex, tet, hybrid, boundary layer, chimera, etc.) meshing algorithms are necessary. The pressing technical challenges for this effort include providing analysis-centric conceptual design geometry, providing leading edge meshing tools and significantly strengthening tools to edit, cleanup and defeature legacy geometry from varied sources. The tool set will be architected to provide streamlined end-user customization, strong modular componentization and ultimately interoperability within any custom work process. Two government agencies are forming a partnership to initiate this collaboration, by pooling resources and consolidating management of this project. The CUBIT team, from Sandia National Laboratories, who has a strong existing product and a strong technical reputation in this area will partner with the newly forming geometry and meshing team for the CREATE program, from the DoD's High Performance Computing Modernization Office (HPCMO). This partnership will include a consortium open to any U.S. commercial participants and U.S. research institutes willing to meet the criteria outlined below. 1) Commercial Vendors. Any U. S. commercial vendor who has a significant technical product focused on meshing and/or geometry related to meshing is invited to participate. The vendor must be willing to provide their product(s) in an easily integrated form into the developed whole. This should include access to source as well as compiled libraries as appropriate. Their products must be substantive (represent at least a 30 person-year effort), and deemed technically significant by the government partners. The vendor must also be willing to allow government use (all U.S. federal government agencies and all U.S. federal government contractors in support of U.S. federal government contracts) of the integrated executable free of charge, except to cover existing software licensing costs (e.g. royalties for an existing 3rd party solid modeling engine). Such existing costs are expected to be very low. In return, the commercial vendor will be able to execute a non-exclusive commercialization agreement to market the non-protected consortium developed code to non-government users. Vendor supplied code will be designated "vendor-protected" preventing acquisition by other vendors or commercial integrators, unless such companies agree between themselves. 2) Commercial Integrators. Any U. S. commercial entity interested in direct integration of the produced code into their company products and processes is invited to participate. The commercial entity must be willing to invest, via the CRADA mechanism, at least $1M per year at Sandia to support the integrated development. In turn, they will be allowed to use the product internally free of charge, except to cover existing 3rd party licensing costs (e.g. royalties for a solid modeling package). Such costs are expected to be very low. As a paying CRADA member, they will leverage existing and future government code, and also be able to direct the use of their money toward specific capabilities needed. The commercial entity and Sandia may agree to designate specific portions thus developed to be CRADA-protected for the commercial entity's internal use as provided for by the CRADA mechanism. They will also be able to negotiate a non-exclusive commercialization agreement to market the non-protected consortium developed code to non-government users. 3) University and Research Participants. Any U. S. university or U.S. research institution that has a significant technical product focused on meshing and/or geometry related to meshing is invited to participate. The university/institution must be willing to provide their product(s) in an easily integrated form into the developed whole. Their product(s) must be substantive and viewed as technically significant by the government partners. The university/institution must be willing to allow government use (all US federal government agencies and all US federal government contractors in support of US federal government contracts) of the integrated executable free of charge. Universities/institutions are encouraged to allow vendor and commercial integrators use of the technology, but not required. In return, they will be able to leverage the extensive existing and future developments of the consortium for use within their research organizations, and to further their research agendas. It is anticipated that participation may be encouraged by the various government funding agencies sponsoring research development. As in the past, government developed technology will continue to be available for technology transfer via an appropriate licensing agreement. Such agreements will be handled by Sandia. However, CRADA protected and vendor supplied software would not be available through licenses with Sandia. Sandia will use objective evaluation criteria to determine which potential partners provide the greatest likelihood of success. Sandia anticipates having to establish one or more Agreements with potential partners which may include Commercial License Agreements, Cooperative Research And Development Agreements (CRADAs), or Work For Other (WFO) Agreements. The use of a CRADA is preferable. In the case of CRADAs, where several potential partners are identified and selected, Sandia National Laboratories may require the selected partners to enter into a Mulitpartner CRADA with Sandia. Selected partners should be prepared and able to accept standard CRADA Terms and Conditions "AS-IS". To express your interest in this technology transfer opportunity, please respond by mail or fax to Steve Owen by April 8, 2008 at: Sandia National Laboratories, MS 0376, P.O. Box 5800, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87185-0376. Fax +1 (555) 000-0000. Please indicate the date and title of the FBO notice and describe the manner in which your company will enhance the likelihood of programmatic success. This is not a federal government procurement and therefore there will be no debriefing regarding the results of Sandia?s selection process. Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Company, for the United States Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration under Contract DE-AC04-94AL85000. Point of Contact: Rudolph R. Griego Administrator +1 (555) 000-0000 contact@example.gov