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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF SEPTEMBER 15,1997 PSA#1930Administrative Procurement Branch, Environmental Protection Agency,
Fairchild Building -- 7th Floor, 499 S. Capital Street, S.W.,
Washington, DC 20024 R -- SMART GROWTH MODELING FOR OPPE'S URBAN AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
DIVISION SOL PR-DC-97-03130 DUE 092497 POC R. Steven Frate (202)
564-4786 The Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Policy,
Planning, and Evaluation has a requirement for the creation of a
user-friendly, GIS-based development impact model which models the
impacts of alternative development plans at a project, neighborhood,
jurisdictional, and regional scale. This model will demonstrate the
impact of land use, development, and infrastructure policy choices on
the location of future development. The period of performance for this
effort will run from placement of the order through September 1998.
The Government is estimating a total of 1,240 hours for this effort.
The Government intends to award this order to the firm that will
provide the best value to the Government. Simplified acquisition
procedures will be used for this procurement. Proposals must be
delivered to the following address by 3:00 p.m. eastern standard time,
on September 24, 1997: United States Environmental Protection Agency
Bid/Proposal Room, 6th Floor Attn: R. Steven Frate (Mail Code 3803R)
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20460 In addition to
submitting complete proposals to the above address, offerors are
requested to fax a sumary of their proposed total cost to (202)
565-2554, attn: R. Steven Frate. The statement of work for this effort
and the criteria that the Government will utilize in evaluating
proposals for best value may be found below: STATEMENT OF WORK Purpose
and Background OPPE's Urban and Economic Development Division has
created the $mart Growth Network to promote the adoption of
environmentally friendly land use and building practices in the private
and public development sectors (e.g., local governments, builders,
architects, developers, local infrastructure providers). Development
decisions are often at a scale that their overall impacts are unclear
to the layperson and elected officials. The implications of zoning,
growth, and infrastructure decisions for the environment are best
understood in the context of longer time frames and larger land use
perspective than is normally taken by communities and officials. This
is particularly true for cities, counties and regions where brownfields
redevelopment is a priority. Typically, contamination and the threat of
liability are perceived to be the principle barriers to redevelopment.
Solutions therefore, are often aimed at addressing these barriers.
However, local land use policies and infrastructure decisions also have
a profound impact on a brownfield site's redevelopment potential. The
purpose of this contract is to create a user-friendly, GIS-based
development impact model which models the impacts of alternative
development plans at a project, neighborhood, jurisdictional and
regional scale. This model will demonstrate the impact of land use,
development and infrastructure policy choices on the location of future
development. The model will calculate this distribution's impact on
demand for brownfields sites and on consumption of open space and
habitat land. The EPA does not intend to re-invent the wheel creating
the basic spreadsheet relationships and spreadsheet-GIS relationships.
Instead, the EPA intends to modify an existing planning model with
specific relationships to create a Smart Growth Development Impact
Model. Personnel and Background Requirements The contractor must have
a GIS-based land use planning model that would provide the nucleus or
basis for this product. The contractor's model must accept as user
inputs: -- current land uses; -- projected growth rates for
residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural land uses; --
specifications for future land use (e.g., preservation, agricultural,
etc.) with the ability to specify more than one use (e.g., agricultural
or residential); -- user preferences for land use types where more than
one use has been specified (e.g., a parcel of land may be either
commercial or residential but when two uses compete give a preference
to commercial); -- current transportation infrastructure; --
specifications for future transportation investments; -- current water
and sewer infrastructure; -- specifications for future water and sewer
investments; -- demographic and socio-economic information on existing
residents; -- site characteristics such as slopes, soil class,
proximity to water bodies or sensitive environmental areas and other
environmental characteristics; and, -- jurisdictional boundaries
including school, school, water and sewer and solid waste districts.
The contractor's model must generate as outputs: -- regional and
jurisdictional distribution of new residential, commercial, retail,
industrial and agricultural growth as a function of the user inputted
land use limitations and preferences; -- land use scenarios at
intervals into the future (e.g., 5, 10, 15 years, etc.); and -- at the
users discretion, descriptors of distributions such as gross density
and site specific density; percent residential, commercial,
agricultural, industrial, open space, remaining developable land. The
following outputs are desirable but not required: -- block level views
of different urban forms (e.g., examples of different levels of
density, street designs, housing designs, etc); -- development scale
analysis of land suitability for a particular development. For
instance, if a development is being proposed for a particular site, the
model would generate analyses of the impacts of the proposed land use
on the given site from a fiscal, environmental and transportation
perspective; -- measures of accessibility as determined by differences
in urban form; and -- measures of infrastructure costs and local
government operations and maintenance costs. The contractor must have
experience working with communities and local governments to evaluate
growth and development alternatives. The contractor must have personnel
with experience programming land use planning modeling equations into
a GIS modeling format. The contractor must have experience creating
user-friendly planning programs. Work Statement: Tasks and Deliverables
The Work Assignment Manager (WAM) will review all deliverables in draft
form and provide revisions and/or comments in writing to the
contractor. The contractor shall prepare the final deliverables
incorporating the WAM's comments. Contractor personnel shall at all
times identify themselves as Contractor employees and shall not present
themselves as EPA employees. Furthermore, they shall not represent the
views of the U.S. Government, EPA, or its employees. In addition, the
Contractor shall not engage in inherently governmental activities,
including but not limited to actual determination of EPA policy and
preparation of documents on EPA letterhead. Task 1 -- Creating a Smart
Growth Development Model The contractor shall work with EPA, and
others EPA may identify, to modify the contractor's model to create a
distinct and separate "Smart Growth" version of the contractor's model.
Modifications shall likely include: -- modifying some of the basic
relationships embedded within the model to better reflect the impacts
of infrastructure investments and other decisions. For instance, if a
decision is made to provide a site with water, sewer, and road access,
it might automatically receive a higher weighting in the distribution
of new growth- even if the current zoning is incompatible; -- creating
a default set of "Smart Growth" inputs for both land use suitability
restrictions and for land allocation preferences (for instance a
default input for a certain percentage of land to be zoned for mixed
uses might be included, or for contiguous open space). The user shall
still be able to specify these factors to create their own scenarios,
but they will automatically be compared with the Smart Growth scenario;
-- creating an input field to identify brownfields and weight them
according to both local priority and a smart growth scenario priority;
-- creating a set of "Smart Growth" outputs such as measures of
impervious surface, indices of mixture of uses, indices of fineness of
transportation grid, the amount of contiguous open space and habitat,
length and accessibility of biking and walking trails, percent of
watershed which is covered by impervious surface, effect of growth
allocation on brownfields redevelopment and others; -- modifying the
output screens to be user-friendly and accessible to local elected
officials and informed citizens; The "Smart Growth" modifications shall
run on the contractor's basic modeling infrastructure, (programming
relationships between data cells and GIS platform, and between GIS
platform and external functions such as printing and the Internet) as
well as some of the basic functional relationships between land use
suitability, growth projections and land allocation. The contractor
shall grant the EPA the right to distribute 150 copies of this platform
for the "Smart Growth" modifications. Task 1 Deliverables and Schedule
The contractor shall deliver a fully functioning GIS-based land use
and development planning model which: -- is capable of accepting the
inputs and generating the outputs specified above; and -- is modified
according to EPA's specifications; The model shall be delivered 180
days from contract initiation. The model shall be based upon the
arc-view platform, or another as specified by the EPA. The model shall
run on a PC, 486 or higher with at least 64 MB RAM and 100 MB of
available hard drive capacity. The model should run with Windows 95 and
ArcView 2.1 or higher. Proposal Evaluation Criteria Proposals shall be
judged on the basis of the following criteria: 1) the contractor's
model -- factors used to judge the contractor's model include but are
not limited to: -- how well it meets the specifications and goals
detailed in the statement of work; -- the structure of the modeling
program in terms of its flexibility and adaptability for changing uses
in the future; and -- history of past application. 2) contractor
experience and expertise -- factors used to judge the contractor's
experience and expertise include but are not limited to: -- the
contractor's experience working with communities and local governments
to evaluate growth and development alternatives ; -- the contractor's
experience programming land use planning modeling equations into a GIS
modeling format ; -- the contractor's experience creating user-friendly
planning programs; and -- the contractor's other professional
experience. 3) contractor price -- the contractor's price will be
judged relative to the promised product and other contractor bids. 4)
contractor licensing conditions -- the contractor's licensing agreement
for the model platform will be judged by the number of licenses
granted, and any restrictions in their use and distribution, and any
specified future licensing considerations. (0253) Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0063 19970915\R-0001.SOL)
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