SOLICITATION NOTICE
F -- Threat Assessment and Pilot Surveillance Plan for the Papahanaumokuakea National Marine
- Notice Date
- 6/4/2007
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541710
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Western Region Acquisition Division - Honolulu Office, 1601 Kapiolani Blvd., Suite 1110, Honolulu, HI, 96814, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- AB133W-07-RP-0105
- Response Due
- 7/18/2007
- Archive Date
- 8/15/2007
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- NOAA?s Papahanaumokuakea National Marine Monument Office requires a contractor to provide all supervision, material and labor necessary to perform a comprehensive threat assessment and pilot surveillance project of the newly formed Monument area in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI). Due to the size of the NWHI region, its remote location, and the multi-jurisdictional nature of management in the area, a threat assessment geared at the protection of the resources from the deep ocean to the land has not been conducted. Characterizing and evaluating threats to the area coming from human activities such as illegal access, poaching, and unforeseen concerns arising from innovations in maritime technology will be an important part of this assessment. Threats to the NWHI have been previously researched through the identification of a number of relevant data sets and an enforcement workshop geared at identifying solutions to remote enforcement issues in the area. However, these have not been comprehensively evaluated or prioritized. Therefore, the first task of this contract is to conduct a thorough threat assessment working with the co-trustee management agencies (NOAA, USFWS, and the State of Hawaii), the U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Defense, and relevant non-governmental entities. This assessment will utilize to the extent necessary, public, commercial, classified and de-classified data to identify threats. These threats should be prioritized by potential impact and probability of occurring, as well as geographically referenced. The second task includes a review of the threat assessment with the management and enforcement agencies and an evaluation of existing assets for surveillance. AIS, RadarSat imagery and sonar buoy arrays have been used by various agencies in the past, and potentially could be woven together for Monument management purposes in the future. Identifying and evaluating these assets are important steps in creating an effective surveillance plan for the Monument. Potential contractors shall have DOD security clearance that would allow them to evaluate the utility of military assets and data sets for surveillance purposes. Many surveillance tools have been proposed for the Monument, including satellite surveillance, Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV), Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), radar, AIS, SONAR arrays, etc. However, they have not been evaluated against a comprehensive threat assessment, and compared by cost to benefit, and feasibility. This analysis will be used to develop a prioritized list of short, medium and long-term surveillance solutions for the Monument. A small-scale pilot demonstration project will be selected from the prioritized list of solutions discussed above. This project should demonstrate the capacity to conduct remote surveillance in the Monument, and should not be dependant upon the construction of significant infrastructure. Scope of Work 1. Convene and meet with a Monument core surveillance committee (MCSC) to identify relevant partners and establish key contacts a. Convene a Monument Core Surveillance Committee; b. Identify organizations at the federal, state, and local levels with significant stakeholder interests in ? and responsibilities for ? the study, management, and protection of the Monument and establish cooperative agreements where appropriate; c. Develop an understanding of the Monument management structure, existing enforcement and surveillance capacity, and regulations; and d. Develop a review process for documents and procedure for consultation. 2. Conduct a Threat Assessment a. Evaluate and integrate all existing surveillance reports, workshop summaries, and previously identified data sets (private, public, classified, declassified and unclassified); b. Determine and define historical, present and future threats to the Monument; c. Assess the known threats to Monument resources using existing data sets; d. Evaluate existing surveillance capacity ? overflights, eyes on the water, human presence, VMS, listening stations, etc.; e. Prioritize threats geospatially, and if feasible divide the Monument into surveillance zones; f. Review threat assessment with MCSC; and g. Write Threat Assessment Report (TAR). 3. Surveillance Plans a. Evaluate the availability and utility of existing data for surveillance from public, commercial, government classified, unclassified and declassified data sets, existing sensors, acoustics, and remote sensing capacity; b. Evaluate existing technologies for surveillance (signal intelligence, acoustic, UAV, AUV, satellite imagery, terrestrial and marine based sensors, etc); c. Evaluate information required in order to carry out prosecution of illegal activities (i.e. is satellite data admissible in a court of law, or are hi-res images needed for prosecution?); d. Using TAR, develop prioritized short, medium, and long term surveillance strategies with cost/benefit and feasibility analysis; 1. Each strategy, such as using AUV?s, or acoustic arrays should have a visual depiction of cost/benefit and feasibility and identification of point of diminishing returns e. Write short, medium and long-term surveillance plans (these plans should be written in such a way to accommodate a Spiral Development Process). 4. Conduct Pilot Surveillance Project a. With MCSC develop a demonstration surveillance project For a copy of the solicitation, you must register on the FedBizOpps (FBO) website to ?receive notification?. Upon release of the solicitation to FBO for download, you should receive an email notifying you that the solicitation is available. NOAA is not responsible if registered parties do not receive this email. Interested parties are responsible for checking FBO periodically to determine if the solicitation is uploaded for review. For planning purposes, interested parties shall anticipate the release of this solicitation on or about 11 June 2007. To receive further information, please contact Contract Specialist Stephanie Garnett at (808) 944-2228. This procurement is 100% Small Business Set Aside. The NAICS code is 541710 and the size standard is 500 employees. The Western Region Acquisition Division requires that all contractors doing business with this acquisition office must be registered with the Central Contractor Registry (CCR). NO award can be made unless the vendor is registered in CCR. 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- Place of Performance
- Address: TBD
- Zip Code: 96814
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 96814
- Record
- SN01309461-W 20070606/070604220152 (fbodaily.com)
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