Supporting modelling and simulation for VRAPP

Trade Agreement: Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT) Tendering Procedures: The bidder must supply Canadian goods and/or services Attachment: None Competitive Procurement Strategy: Best Overall Proposal Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No Nature of Requirements: TITRE: SUPPORTING MODELLING AND SIMULATION FOR VRAPP

Background Weapon systems based on electro-optics (EO) represent dangerous threats which are proliferating rapidly, and they must be dealt with by land-based, aerial and marine platforms. These threats will undoubtedly continue to be a significant concern in the years to come as more and more such systems are put in service, both of known design and new generations. The growing complexity, variability and diversity of EO threats present significant challenges which designers of countermeasures are confronting.

Providing a platform with a self-protection system does not always assure adequate protection against emerging threats, or even conventional threats. To be effective, a self-protection system must be activated by a warning system, and it must then activate an appropriate sequence of countermeasures. Further, effective employment of a self-protection system depends on the platform to be protected, the conditions of engagement and the threat.

As a consequence, the development of countermeasure techniques and their employment against EO threats demands robust capabilities, which must include experimental tools to perform effective analyses, engineering processes to ensure uniform results, and a process of Verification and Validation (V&V) that will achieve the level of detail required.

In response to this requirement DRDC Valcartier has initiated a VRAPP technology demonstration project (TDP) designed to, in particular, provide a virtual demonstration capability for the analysis and development of self-protection systems to deal with known and projected EO threats. This approach includes integration of existing simulation systems, be they virtual, real or hybrid, centred around a synthetic environment.

In order to respond effectively to existing requirements, models must be created, tested, verified, validated and improved on an iterative basis if the desired level of reliability is to be achieved. Since these models must accurately represent complex systems or phenomena, experimental work is done in advance or in parallel in order to better characterize the physics of the situation that is to be reproduced.

In order to achieve the project objectives, this contract will carry out 8 tasks to be performed by Task Authorisation

Tasks Task 1: Create digital models Task 2: Validate and verify digital models or software components Task 3: Modify and/or add software components Task 4: Support execution of the software components in a series of simulations Task 5: Support analysis of simulations Task 6: Support the collection of data from real systems Task 7: Code review, follow on of work and supprort for VRAPP demonstration project and technical specifications Task 8: Support demonstrations

Client department The organization for which the services are to be rendered is Defence Research and Development Canada - Valcartier (DRDC - Valcartier).

Period of the contract The period of the Contract is from date of Contract to March 31st, 2016, inclusive.

Ownership of Intellectual Property Defence Research and Development Canada - Valcartier has determined that any intellectual property rights arising from the performance of the Work under the resulting contract will belong to Canada.

Contract funding The resulting contract will be a Task Authorisation contract. The Maximum Contract Value is $800,000.00 CDN and the Minimum Contract Value" is 10% of the maximum Contract Value.

Mandatory Technical Criteria The bidder must propose the number of resources for each of the following three categories (the same person may be proposed for more than one resource category). 1.Category: modelling (minimum 3 resources); 2.Category: computer science (minimum 2 resources);

Point Rated Technical Criteria Training and ezperience: maximum 80 points, minimum 50 points Bidder's experience: maximum 20 points, minimum 13 points

Security requirements There is a security requirement associated with this requirement.

Other information All the work is to be carried out on site at Defence Research and Development Canada - Valcartier, located at 2459 Pie-XI Blvd North, Quebec City, Quebec.

This procurement is subject to the Controlled Goods Program.

The requirement is subject to the provisions of the Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT).

The requirement is limited to Canadian goods and/or services.

Delivery Date: Above-mentioned

The Crown retains the right to negotiate with suppliers on any procurement.

Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada.