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Document Type: Sources Sought Notice Number: NB187000-23-01866 Response Deadline: May 10, 2023, 12:00 PM, EST Contracting Office Address Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Tech... Document Type: Sources Sought Notice Number: NB187000-23-01866 Response Deadline: May 10, 2023, 12:00 PM, EST Contracting Office Address Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Acquisition Management Division 100 Bureau Drive Building 301, Room B125, Mail Stop 1640, Gaithersburg MD, 20899-1640 This is a Sources Sought Notice ONLY. Requests for copies of a solicitation will not receive a response. This Notice is for planning purposes only and is not a Request for Proposal or Request for Quotation or an obligation on the part of the NIST for conducting a follow-on acquisition. NIST does not intend to award a contract based on this Notice, or otherwise pay for the information requested. No entitlement or payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by NIST will arise as a result of submission of responses to this Notice and NIST use of such information. NIST recognizes proprietary components, interfaces and equipment, and clearly marked restricted or proprietary components, interfaces and equipment, and data included as an addendum to the non-restricted/non-proprietary information. In the absence of such identification, NIST will assume to have unlimited rights to all technical data in the information paper. NO SOLICITATION DOCUMENTS EXIST AT THIS TIME. Background: NIST's Material Measurement Laboratory (MML) is investigating additive manufacturing-related issues for both metals and polymers. Projects underway include studying the fracture and fatigue properties of additive manufacturing materials, nano-mechanical properties of surfaces and flaws in these materials, modeling of microstructure evolution, and relationships between precursor material and final product quality. The Engineering Laboratory's Measurement Science for Additive Manufacturing (MSAM) program is exploring barriers to adoption of additive manufacturing, such as surface quality, part accuracy, fabrication speed, material properties and computational requirements. To mitigate these challenges, the program focuses on material characterization, real-time control of additive manufacturing processes, qualification methodologies and system integration. NIST is seeking information from all responsible vendors that can provide Engineering Design software and maintenance support for generating lattice structures within a 3-dimensional CAD envelope and include gyroids, triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) and honeycombs and provides integration of finite element solvers to enable generative topological optimization allowing direct export to NIST existing equipment, avoiding potential loss from traditional workflows. Minimum Requirements: -enable engineers to better define, represent, and lock down various engineering processes, digitally, allowing the integration of important data. - provide a mathematical method that optimizes material layout within a given design space, for a given set of loads, boundary conditions and constraints with the goal of maximizing the performance of the system. It must allow design that can attain any shape within the design space, instead of dealing with predefined configurations. - Solve topology optimization problems in a discrete sense is done by discretizing the design domain into finite elements. - Treat material densities inside elements as the problem variables. - Allow for modeling densities with continuous variables. - Allow gradient based algorithms that handle large amounts of continuous variables and multiple constraints. - Fluid-structure-interaction strongly coupled phenomenon and concerns the interaction between a stationary or moving fluid and an elastic structure. - Support 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional modeling and 3D printing. (End of Specific Tasks) Interested parties shall describe the capabilities and experience of their organization and personnel as it relates to the requirements described above. Please include company’s size classification and socio-economic status in any response to this notice. Name of company/companies that are authorized provide services, their addresses, and a point of contact for the company (name, phone number, fax number and email address). Number of days, after receipt of order that is typical for delivery of services. Indication of whether the services are currently on one or more GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract or any other government-wide contracts. If so, please provide the applicable contract number(s). Indication of whether the services proposed is a commercial item currently offered in the marketplace. Any other relevant information that is not listed above which the Government should consider in developing its minimum performance requirements. After results of this market research are obtained and analyzed, NIST may conduct a competitive procurement and subsequently award a contract. Companies that can provide such services are requested to email a written response describing their capabilities to Prateema.carvajal@nist.gov no later than the response date for this source sought notice.