Notice of Intent to Sole Source - VVPM Software Maintenance

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) intends to award a contract on a sole source basis to Advanced Rotorcraft Technology, Inc., upon the basis of the authority provided at FAR 13.106-1(b)(1).

ERDC-CRREL requires a five-year software maintenance agreement extension for their Viscous Vortex Particle Method (VVPM) software developed by Advanced Rotorcraft Technology (ART) to compute viscous and interactional effects for CRREL’s existing Rotorcraft Comprehensive Analysis System (RCAS) software.

The existing RCAS software was developed under the United States Army Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) .... Read More