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The contract awarded by the National Library of Medicine to Kitware, Inc. on September 28, 1999, primarily focuses on the development and enhancement of the Insight Toolkit (ITK) and the Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (SRT). Kitware has been working under this contract for over three years, providing software development services aimed at improving ITK’s architecture, code performance, documentation, and educational example materials. The company is tasked with streamlining code, revising poor performing classes, aligning ITK’s command/observer patterns with common visualization programming environments, integrating the system into the CMake build environment, improving the multithreading infrastructure for better performance on parallel computing platforms, supporting data type pipelining, integrating the finite element method subsystem, and enabling automatic wrapping into the Java language. The National Library of Medicine intends to extend this contract with Kitware for an additional twelve months on a sole source basis, recognizing the firm’s unique qualifications and expertise developed through their prior extensive work on the project. This extension will continue the existing efforts without incurring additional costs or causing delays. The planned award will be made without full and open competition, as allowed under specific federal acquisition regulations, emphasizing that Kitware is the only source capable of meeting the project’s requirements within the necessary timeframe. This notice serves as an advance indication of the intended contract extension rather than a solicitation for new proposals.

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National Library of Medicine extends Kitware contract to enhance ITK and SRT software without competition.

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541511 - Custom Computer Programming Services

Place of Performance

469 Clifton Corporate Parkway, Clifton Park, NY 12065

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PostedJun 17

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Full Description

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) awarded contract N01-LM-9-3532 on September 28, 1999, to Kitware, Inc., 469 Clifton Corporate Parkway, Clifton Park, NY 12065, to assist in the development of an application programmer interface (API) known as the Insight Toolkit (ITK), and first implementation of a Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (SRT). It is the intent of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to negotiate with Kitware, Inc. on a sole source basis to extend the current contract number N01-LM-9-3532 for twelve months to continue the overall goals of the project, which include streamlining the existing ITK code, improving the consistency of the internal software architecture, extending documentation of the existing algorithms and methods, and generating examples suitable for inclusion in courseware and educational materials associated with ITK. Kitware, Inc. is currently providing the required services, and will continue to perform an exhaustive review of code performance and implementation, reworking those classes that either violate style or exhibit poor performance, rework the command/observer structure of ITK to be more consistent with other visualization programming environments, further integrate the system into the CMake build environment, refine the multithreading infrastructure in ITK to deliver better performance on parallel processing machines, support pipelining of all data types, integrate the FEM subsystem with the mesh data objects, and support automatic wrapping of the library into the Java programming language. Kitware, Inc. has been performing the required services for the past three and a half years under the current contract. This requirement represents a continuation of the services they are currently providing to the NLM. By virtue of their expertise and experience gained through their development and implementation under the current contract, Kitware, Inc. is uniquely qualified and the only source capable of carrying out these required services in the required time frame and without duplication of cost to the government and undue delays. This notice of intent is not a Request for Proposals (RFP), nor is an RFP available. Based on authority cited in 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1) (FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)), award to Kitware, Inc. without full and open competition is planned. See Numbered Notes 22 and 26.

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