Data Processing Server Services
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SUMMARY
KEY REQUIREMENTS
TIMELINE
Questions due by August 28th, 2026.
Quotations due by September 2nd, 2026.
QUESTION DEADLINE
CONTACTS
Primary procurement contact — name, title, email, and phone
Additional decision-makers and their departments
Issuing Agency
National Institute Of Standards And Technology
DESCRIPTION
The government authority in Gaithersburg, Maryland is seeking vendor-provided data processing server services to support research involving artificial intelligence and machine learning, digital twins, wireless channel modeling, and multimodal data processing.
The required server should include an AMD Threadripper PRO 9975WX processor or equivalent with at least 32 cores, ECC DDR5 memory, and PCIe Gen 5 support. It must provide a minimum of 512 GB of ECC DDR5 memory, four NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q GPUs or equivalent, and at least 96 GB of GPU memory per GPU with comparable artificial intelligence and computing capabilities.
Additional requirements include a minimum 2 TB PCIe Gen 5 NVMe SSD for the operating system, two 15.36 TB enterprise NVMe SSDs configured for RAID 0 capability, dual 100GbE networking with dedicated out-of-band or IPMI-equivalent management, and compatibility with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Desktop.
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Frequently asked questions
- When is the submission deadline?
- Submissions are due September 2, 2026. Questions must be submitted by August 28, 2026.
- Who issued this RFP?
- It was issued by National Institute Of Standards And Technology. The work is located in Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States.
- Who is a good fit for this opportunity?
- High-performance computing server integrator or enterprise hardware supplier
- Experience delivering GPU-accelerated AI and machine learning infrastructure
- Capability to configure ECC memory, enterprise NVMe storage, RAID, and 100GbE networking
- Expertise supporting Ubuntu Linux and out-of-band server management systems
- Established government or research-institution technology contracting experience
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