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The National Library of Medicine awarded contract N01-LM-9-3532 to Kitware, Inc. in 1999 to develop and enhance the Insight Toolkit (ITK) and the initial Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (SRT). This contract focuses on improving the software architecture, refining existing code, extending documentation, and creating educational materials related to ITK. Kitware has been providing these services for over two and a half years, and the NLM intends to negotiate a sole-source extension of the contract for another twelve months to continue supporting these objectives. Key development tasks include making the command/observer structure of ITK more consistent with visualization programming environments, enhancing multithreading capabilities, improving streaming support for image input/output, and expanding automatic multiple-language bindings to include Python. Kitware's expertise and familiarity with the project positions them as the only qualified source capable of continuing these services efficiently and without added costs or delays to the government. The extension will maintain progress on these technical improvements and support, ensuring seamless continuation of development without a competitive solicitation. This sole-source action is authorized under federal acquisition regulations due to the unique qualifications and experience Kitware holds from their ongoing work under the existing contract.

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Kitware awarded sole-source extension to improve ITK software architecture, multithreading, and documentation.

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541511 - Custom Computer Programming Services

Place of Performance

469 Clifton Corporate Parkway, Clifton Park, NY 12065

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PostedMay 14

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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 rework the command/observer structure of ITK to be more consistent with other visualization programming environments, to expand and develop the multithreading support in ITK to accommodate parallel processing machines, to separate pipeline objects from filter/data objects in the ITK object hierarchy, provide streaming support for image I/O, and to expand CABLE, the automatic multiple-language-binding software to support PYTHON. Kitware, Inc. has been performing the required services for the past two 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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