MATLAB SOFTWARE LICENSE RENEWALS

THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ONLY

This Request for Information (RFI) is issued solely for information and market research and planning purposes.  This RFI shall not be construed as an obligation on the part of the Government.  This is NOT a Request for Quotations or Proposals (RFQ or RFP).  No solicitation document exists, and the Government may or may not issue formal solicitation as a result of any information received in response to this RFI.

The Government will not pay for any response or demonstration expenses.  All costs incurred responding to this RFI will be solely at the interested party's expense.  Failure to respond to this RFI will not preclude participation in any future solicitation.  In accordance with Revolutionary Federal Acquisition Regulation Overhaul (RFO) FAR 15.101(c), responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract.  The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate.  Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine that organization’s capabilities.

The Government’s explicit intent through this RFI is to obtain general product/service information.  The Government is not requesting and does not want to receive from respondents any proprietary data, trade secrets, business sensitive information, or information considered CONFIDENTIAL under 18 U.S.C. §1905.  The Government’s constraint does not in any way relieve contractors from their responsibility to properly mark proprietary data when it is provided, nor does it alleviate any requirement for the Government to protect marked data.  The Government is not obligated to protect unmarked data.

The information provided in this RFI is subject to change and is not binding on the Government.  All submissions become the property of the Federal Government and will not be returned.

I. BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE

The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Office of National Laboratories (ONL) Transportation Security Laboratory (TSL), with its staff of federal employees and contractors, including physicists, chemists, engineers, and mathematicians, is internationally recognized for its unique ability to advance detection technology from conception to deployment through applied research, test and evaluation, assessment, and certification testing.

TSL is seeking information for a programming and numeric computing software platform that can analyze data, perform mathematical operations, develop algorithms, create models, and conduct simulations.  In addition to these licenses, TSL needs corresponding software service and maintenance, periodic software updates (for instance, regarding features provided by toolboxes), and access to helpdesk support for this software.

These software licenses and support would be used by TSL federal and contractor personnel in TSL’s bulk detection, trace detection, and simulant laboratories.

Purpose of RFI

Responses to this RFI are solely for the purpose of market research and will be used for a market survey of a prospective software programming and numeric computing platform that can analyze data, perform mathematical operations, develop algorithms, create models, and conduct simulations.

No content in this RFI shall be interpreted as a commitment on the part of TSL to enter a contract with any respondent or to make any procurement.

As stated above, by submitting a response to this RFI, each respondent agrees that any cost incurred in responding to this request, or in support of activities associated with this RFI, shall be the sole responsibility of respondent.  The Government incurs no obligations or liabilities whatsoever, to anyone, for any costs or expenses incurred by the respondent in responding to this RFI.

Through this RFI, TSL will assess the capabilities of respondents to provide the software and support to maintain uninterrupted performance in a fast-paced laboratory environment.

The incumbent contractor for this effort is The MathWorks, Inc. for its MATLAB software under purchase order number 70RSAT25P00000004.

II. SUBMISSION OF INFORMATION

Your responses shall include, but are not limited to:

• Descriptions of your software’s capabilities;
• Licensing option levels;
• Types and functionality of toolboxes;
• Examples of modeling and simulations;
• Frequency of updates;
• Training options (if applicable); and
• Level(s) of support.

Please limit your responses to five (5) single-side 8 ½” x 11” pages using 12-point font for text and no less than 8-point font for any images or graphics.

Any questions, comments, and/or additional information (if any), should be submitted via e-mail to the following DHS Office of Procurement Operations (OPO) Points of Contact (POCs):  Contracting Officer Robert Marosz at Robert.Marosz@hq.dhs.gov and Contract Specialist Mohammed Rizki at Mohammed.Rizki@hq.dhs.gov.

Responses to this RFI must be submitted via e-mail to Marosz and Rizki no later than 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time (ET) on June 18, 2026.

III. OTHER

Once again, this RFI is for information gathering and planning purposes only and should not be construed as a Request for Proposal or solicitation of an offer.  Submission of vendor information constitutes consent to publication of that information in DHS TSL Analytic Software program documentation.