RFI for System Advisor Model Development Software

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory is seeking information from vendors to provide software development, maintenance, and enhancement support for the System Advisor Model platform. The agency requires a partner to maintain and develop this open-source software platform, which researchers, industry, utilities, and government organizations use to evaluate the technical and economic performance of renewable energy technologies. The platform supports a wide range of energy technologies, including solar, wind, and geothermal systems, and provides performance, financial, and incentive modeling capabilities. The scope of work covers software architecture improvements, implementation of new modeling capabilities, user interface enhancements, cross-platform software support, and troubleshooting of issues identified by users and development staff. The selected vendor must also provide architecture and debugging support for the platform. All performance of the work will occur offsite. Only organizations based onshore in the United States are eligible to participate in this opportunity. The agency is currently looking for proposals to determine the budget and has not disclosed a specific funding limit. The source document does not specify key dates or explicit evaluation criteria for this request for information.