Notarized JV/Consortium Agreement (or Power of Attorney)

Lot-1 Software Tools - Allocation of 150 licenses

Refering to attached "PSEB-Lot-1-Page-62-Image-2.pdf", 

What will be the license allocation among universities?

We need to know, how many universities will access the license pool and each university will be allocated home many licenses.

For example:
Total licenses: 150
# of universities: 3
Allocated licenses to each university: 50

And, will same pool of licenseds be used by both SERC and USTP - and what will be split? and license allocation for each segment SERC and USTP and with in SERC and and USTP.

Thanks

Clarification Response:

Total SERC Licenses: 100
50 licenses each university.

Lot-1 Software Tools - Process node

Referring to attached "PSEB-Lot-1-Page-61-Image-3.pdf", 

EDA Tools are to support down to what process node. ?(128nm, 65nm or other node ?)


Thanks

Clarification Response:

65nm or less.

Lot-1 Software Tools - SLA - Contract Duration

Rferring to "PSEB-Lot-1-Page-109-Image-4.pdf",

Please note that EDA Software vendors (Cadence Design) provide support for purchased software for the duration of license. If license duration is 3 years then Cadence support is provided for 3 years, support access is disabled once licenses expire.

So, SLA cannot be valid for 5 years if it is beyond the software licenses duration.

Please calrify.

Clarification Response:

The duration of SLA will be same as per the licenses duration.

Lot-1 Software Tools - Price Schedule

Referring to "PSEB-Lot-1-Page-69-Image-6.pdf", attached;

What is the dofference between "For Individual Positions" and "For Lots"?

Can you provide an example, for Lot 1: Software

Clarification Response:

Under this RFP, bids and evaluations are strictly on a Lot-wise basis.

For Lots (Applicable): Bidders must provide unit rates for all line items within Lot-1 to arrive at a total consolidated price for the entire Lot. Partial bidding within a Lot is not permitted.

For Individual Positions (Not Applicable): Refers to standard procurement terminology for pricing standalone items independently where individual line-item awards are allowed.

Lot-1 Software Tools - Lot 1: Software - Hardware setup

Referring to "PSEB-Lot-1-Page-37-Image-7.pdf" attached,

What kind of installtion of licenses and EDA software is expected from EDA Vebndor for below machines:

- High End Server for EDA tools
    o License or software, Or Both|

- High end server for labs
    o License or software, Or Both

- Engineering workstations (Student terminals)
    o License or software, Or Both

Also, comfirm that RHEL Linux, OS libraries and utilities, admin and user account setups, port configuration for license and software access across network, connectivity (with labs and labs and central server) , machine mounts, vnc etc. will be done by Hardware team.

EDA Software vendor would be responble for Installing and configuring EDA software and centralized licenses on 1 machine.



 

Clarification Response:

Proposed plan is to install all licenses on High end server. But it can be changed according to need based.

Lot-1 Software Tools - Delivery & Documents

Refrring to "PSEB-Lot-1-Page-85-Image-5",

Note that as EDA software provider, we could only sign up to "install EDA software/suites and licenses" and should not be expected to deliver and commission hardware.

Please update and clarify the attached.

Clarification Response:

Verified. 

Lot-1 Software Tools - Duration and Price Schedule

Referring to "PSEB-Lot-1-Page-69-Image-6.pdf" attached, 

For Lot 1: Software

Are you asking for Price for 1 year? or 3 year?

Will the PO be issued for 1 year or 3 year duration?

What will be the payment schedule for 1 year and 3 year PO?

 

Clarification Response:

1. Prices are required for the period of 3 years.
2. The PO will be issued for 3 year duration
3. The payment schedule will be for the period of 3 year as per the issued PO

Lot-1 Software Tools - Lot 1: Software - Training content and duration

Lot-1 Software Tools - Lot 1: Software - Hardware setup

Referring to "Lot-1-Page-63-64-Page-36-Image-8.pdf" attached,

Please calirfiy:
- Total training duration (# of days)
- Is it in-person training or remote (Zoom) training is acceptable
- Also confirm that it will be single training session

Most important,

- what are we suposed to cover - EDA tool installation, licenses management, reporting utility, support system,

We would like to confirm that training will not cover any technical, tool, design content - as such content would need few month training.

Clarification Response:

Clarification:

1. The training duration can be set as mutually agreed.
2. Training may be conducted in-person or remotely via Zoom, as mutually agreed.
3. The training shall be conducted as one training session.

Training Scope:

The training is intended to cover the operational/administrative aspects of the supplied software environment, including:

1. EDA tool installation and configuration
2. License management
3. Reporting/utilization utilities
4. Basic administration and support system

The training will not cover technical/design training or detailed use of EDA tools for IC design, as such training would require an extended duration spanning several months and is beyond the scope of this RFP.