DATA GATHERING FOR METEOROLOGICAL EFFECTS ASSESSMENT APPLICATION

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TITLE

DATA GATHERING FOR A CANADIAN METEOROLOGICAL EFFECTS ASSESSMENT APPLICATION

REQUIREMENT

Canadian Forces (CF) personnel are required to make assessments of the effects of meteorological/oceanographic/ice conditions, hereafter referred to as "Met Effects," on the operation of CF equipment. Current methods of assessing Met Effects for the CF rely on a suite of standard NATO criteria and manual or semi-automated processes. More sophisticated systems exist that offer improved estimates through automated software applications.

One such system, Navy Integrated Tactical Environmental System, Variant II Redesign (NITES IIR or N2R), is a sophisticated Met Effects assessment application with performance degradation predictions for known capabilities. For each specific piece of equipment, the N2R application forms an assessment based on certain aspects of the equipment's operating characteristics and technical specifications and how they react to varying meteorological, oceanographic, or ice conditions. These characteristics and specifications are provided to the application in the form of descriptive data that are formatted according to the equipment category. Algorithms of the type used by this application can significantly improve the equipment performance information available to Canadian commanders.

One problem with using systems such as N2R is that in order to assess Met Effects on CF assets, the associated databases must be populated with data specific to each piece of equipment to be assessed. The Contractor is responsible for determining the N2R data requirements and assessing the availability of this data for the CF equipment to be assessed by the application. The Contractor is also responsible for collecting, cataloguing, and manipulating this data into a format that is usable by N2R.

The purpose of this work is to determine the data requirements for assessing meteorological/ oceanographic/ ice effects on military equipment using an automated software application. The Contractor will determine the requirements for the data, provide an evaluation of the data sources and availability, and will begin data collection and formatting activities. The data is intended to serve as input to an automated meteorological effects assessment system.

The Contractor must commence the work upon contract award. The Contract is expected to be completed within six (6) months after contract award.

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

There is a security requirement associated with this requirement.

The Contractor/Offeror must, at all times during the performance of the Contract/Standing Offer, hold a valid Facility Security Clearance at the level of SECRET, issued by the Canadian Industrial Security Directorate (CISD), Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC).

The Contractor/Offeror personnel requiring access to CLASSIFIED information, assets or sensitive work site(s) must be citizens of Canada, and must EACH hold a valid personnel security screening at the level of SECRET, granted or approved by CISD/PWGSC. Until the security screening of the Contractor/Offeror personnel required by this Contract/Standing Offer has been completed satisfactorily by the Canadian Industrial Security Directorate, Public Works and Government Services Canada, the Contractor/Offeror personnel MAY NOT HAVE ACCESS to CLASSIFIED information or assets, and MAY NOT ENTER sites where such information or assets are kept, without an escort.

The Contractor/Offeror MUST NOT remove any CLASSIFIED information from the identified work site(s), and the Contractor/Offeror must ensure that its personnel are made aware of and comply with this restriction.

Subcontracts which contain security requirements are NOT to be awarded without the prior written permission of CISD/PWGSC.

The Contractor/Offeror must comply with the provisions of the

(a) Security Requirements Check List and security guide (if applicable), attached at Annex C. (b) Industrial Security Manual (Latest Edition).

For additional information, consult Part 6 - Security, Financial and Other Requirements, and Part 7 - Resulting Contract Clauses. Bidders should consult the "Security Requirements for PWGSC Bid Solicitations - Instructions for Bidders" (http://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/app-acq/lc-pl/lc-pl-eng.html#a31) document on the Departmental Standard Procurement Documents Web site."

SELECTION METHOD

Lowest Evaluated Price Per Point

1. To be declared responsive, a bid must

(a) comply with all the requirements of the bid solicitation;

(b) meet all mandatory technical evaluation criteria; and

(c) obtain the required minimum points overall for the technical evaluation criteria which are subject to point rating.

Bids not meeting (a) or (b) or (c) will be declared non-responsive. Neither the responsive bid that receives the highest number of points nor the one that proposed the lowest price will necessarily be accepted. The responsive bid with the lowest evaluated price per point will be recommended for award of a contract. The evaluated price per point will be determined by dividing the evaluated price of the bid by the number of points obtained for the point rated technical evaluation criteria.

In the event that two or more responsive bids have the same lowest evaluated price per point, the responsive bid which obtained the highest number of points overall for the point rated technical evaluation criteria will be recommended for award of a contract.

MANDATORY TECHNICAL EVALUATION CRITERIA

Mandatory technical evaluation criteria are included in ATTACHMENT 2 of the bid solicitation.

POINT RATED TECHNICAL EVALUATION CRITERIA

Point rated technical evaluation criteria are included in ATTACHMENT 3 of the bid solicitation.

CONTRACTING AUTHORITY

Christine Oates Telephone No. - (819) 956-1332 Fax No. - (819) 997-2229 E-mail - Christine.Oates@tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca

All enquiries must be submitted in writing to the Contracting Authority no later than ten (10) calendar days before the bid closing date.

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.