Primary POC: Prateema Carvajal ([email? redacted])Secondary POC: Monica Brown ([email? redacted])Title: Sonnet software maintenance support renewal – Combined Sources Sought/Notice of Intent to Sole SourceBACKGROUND***THIS IS A COMBINED SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE AND NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE***The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking information from sources that may be capable of providing maintenance support to existing Sonnet software licenses. If no alternate sources are identified, the Government intends to issue a Sole Source Award to Sonnet Software. (126 N. Salina Street, Syracuse, NY 13202) under the authority of FAR 13.106–1(b). The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 513210, Software Publisher with a size standard of $47.0 M.This requirement is for the maintenance and support of a current NIST–used product that is a critical component of NIST's existing enterprise IT architecture as defined in the NIST Technology Reference Model for Central IT Services.NIST currently has a license for the Sonnet platform by Sonnet Software, Inc., for the industry's most accurate and reliable high frequency planar EM software. Sonnet software has been identified as a need essential to NIST researchers in a number of Laboratories throughout NIST for several years. NIST is seeking software support services to provide additional software licenses maintenance, security upgrades, and technical support for NIST Sonnet software packages.The continued maintenance and support of the software provided by Sonnet Software is important for the NIST researchers.Replacing it with another product would:– Require the purchase of new start–up licenses of the competing product at approximately 4–5 times the cost of purchasing this maintenance and support.– Retraining all staff in the use of the replacement product.– Rewriting all the code written in this product in the format/language/syntax of the new product.Faili