From the notice

The Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) is issuing a Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 3458 as implemented by RFO DFARS 212.7000. Under a CSO, the ERDC may competitively select proposals received in response to a general solicitation, similar to a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), based on a review of proposal by scientific, technological, or other subject matter expert peers within the ERDC and/or other federal experts. This CSO will be used to acquire innovative products, services, or technologies, and under this CSO, all products, services, and technologies shall be treated as commercial items. Products, technologies, and services do not have to be ?commercially available? to be submitted in response to this solicitation. If the solution meets the requirements of the DFARS regulation, the solution is treated as commercial whereby the Contracting Officer will utilize commercial procedures to develop and execute the resultant award. This Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) contains broadly defined areas of interest for ERDC?s Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) and intends to obtain ?innovative? solutions or potential new capabilities in support of integrated digital transformation, advanced computing, secure and resilient systems, and data-driven decision-making to address complex defense and civil works challenges.

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