SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System
- Notice Date
- 8/5/2015
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 511210
— Software Publishers
- Contracting Office
- Interior Business Center, AQD Division 2/ Branch 2 381 Elden St Suite 4000 Herndon VA 20170
- ZIP Code
- 20170
- Solicitation Number
- D15PS00674
- Point of Contact
- Luke, Kimberly
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The US Department of the Interior, Acquisition Services Directorate (AQD), is issuing this solicitation, Number D15PS00647 as a Request for Quote (RFQ) on behalf of the US Department of the Interior, Office of Wildland Fire (OWF). AQD anticipates awarding a purchase order to provide continuing operations and maintenance (O&M) while working to develop, modernize, and enhance (DME) the functionality to meet fuels and vegetation planning and assessment needs of the interagency fire management community for the Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS). The purchase order will be awarded for a base period of one year and four one year option periods. This is an acquisition for commercial services and will be conducted using the guidance in FAR 13.5. The applicable NAICS code is 511210, "Software Publishers". The small business size standard is $38.5 million. This procurement is being solicited on an unrestricted basis, open to large and small business concerns. PURPOSE OF PURCHASE ORDER/SCOPE OF WORK: The scope of the project is to take the existing IFTDSS System (application / framework) and provide for its continuing operations and maintenance (O&M) needs while working to develop, modernize, and enhance (DME) the functionality to meet fuels and vegetation planning and assessment needs of the interagency fire management community. OWF seeks system O&M/DME with accompanying security services providing a structure that is reliable, maintainable, and available (RMA). The system provides and offers the necessary redundancy and contingency features as well as state-of-the-art technology enhancements to improve user experience, minimize service disruption, and ensure security. The IFTDSS approach is one of a "system of systems" structure that provides for the integration of multiple systems and tools applying modeling and data analysis resulting in proper, logical and appropriate workflows. The underlying Scientific Modeling Framework (SMF) serves as a foundation for fulfilling the existing need to access legacy fire management systems, tools, and databases, thus allowing for the closure of legacy or redundant systems, tools, models or databases. The future SMF will build upon this framework to facilitate the incorporation of key current and legacy datasets, processes, and algorithms as well as new models and databases. The SMF will enable the linkage and integration of independent models of vegetation information, fire behavior, fire effects, fuel/vegetation treatments, and risk assessments. The IFTDSS "system" will provide infrastructure, computing and related services to enable the flexible and scalable delivery of environments, processes, and/or algorithms that can be used by the wildland fire or natural resource program agencies to develop, test, and certify applications by authorized government specialists. Source Selection Procedures as identified in FAR Part 13.106-2 will be utilized in the selection of the firm offering the best value to the Government in terms of price and technical merit and whose performance is expected to best meet stated Government requirements. Accordingly, award will be made using best value source selection procedures incorporating tradeoffs between price and non-price factors. Award may be made without discussions. Interested Parties/How to Offer. The Solicitation (RFQ) will only be available electronically. It will be available on or about August 11, 2015. The solicitation will be available at https://www.fbo.gov/. Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading the solicitation and for monitoring the website for possible amendments and/or additional information. For any inquiries regarding this solicitation, please contact the Contracting Officer, Kimberly Luke. All inquires and questions must be submitted via email to Kimberly_Luke@ibc.doi.gov. Telephonic requests will not be acknowledged.
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