SOURCES SOUGHT
B -- Software Support
- Notice Date
- 6/4/2007
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, APS PO BOX 25046, MS204B DENVER FEDERAL CENTER DENVER CO 80225
- ZIP Code
- 80225
- Solicitation Number
- 07CR30-NoSolicitation
- Response Due
- 7/19/2007
- Archive Date
- 6/3/2008
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Concerns having the ability to furnish the services described herein are requested to give written notification (including the telephone number for a point of contact) to the procuring office above with 45 calendar days from the date of this synopsis. The USGS Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS) is designed to organize, modernize, and standardize operations of seismic networks in the United States to improve the Nation's ability to respond effectively to damaging earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis. The U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Discipline, Geologic Hazards Team, has a requirement for the following: Support installation, configuration and operation of ANSS Regional Networks. 1. CISN Display is an application that rapidly receives earthquake information distributed by seismic networks operating in the United States via the Internet. 2. SeisNetWatch allows seismic network operators to monitor and control the state of health of their networks or other networks distributed across the Internet. 3. SHAPE is a tool for easily building Dataless SEED volumes. 4. Earthworm is a seismic processing system used at over a dozen ANSS regional seismic networks. Maintaining existing software, creating the Earthworm distributions and supporting to ANSS regional networks. 5. Earthquake Information Distribution System (EIDS). EIDS is the messaging infrastructure used to synchronize summary earthquake products among USGS data centers and ANSS regional seismic networks. 6. XYZ the software package consisting of a user interface (GUI) and associated software used to support seismic waveform data quality control (QC) analysis. 7. INV (Inventory/Response) is a software package which provides a method to track instrumentation used at the ANSS Backbone Network and generate updated response information when station configurations are changed. 8. AutoDRM is a software package that allows ANSS customers to request stations metadata and waveform data from the National Earthquake Information Center database. III. Product Development Develop a series of new products and enhance existing products. These products will enhance the ANSS' ability to generate earthquake information and to deliver the earthquake information reliability. The development process will follow a four phase approach. The phases will be: 1. Definition of Product Functional Requirements: Develop, prioritize, and document the functional requirements. 2. Design Document the design including description of data flow, high level modules, their functions, and technical specifications. Implementation based on the requirements and High Level Design. 3. Delivery Develop a strategy for deployment of the product. 4. Work breakdown structure and implementation A. National Inventory (NI) The ANSS requires a national station inventory. The inventory should include station names and coordinates, instrumentation types, site characteristics, cooked responses, etc. The NI will be implemented in two stages. The first phase product would provide a list of ANSS station names and coordinates. ANSS would like the data to be mined from SeisNetWatch, because SeisNetWatch runs at all ANSS networks. The list should be updated at regular intervolves and should provide the ability to manually cause an update. Stage II of the national inventory would include instrument type, site characteristics, cooked responses, and other station information. Stage II of will have three parts: 1) mining the data from each network, 2) collecting the data at one or more points, and 3) making the aggregate data available. The collecting of the data would use existing ANSS tools and commercial tools such as the EIDS messaging system and the SeisNetWatch monitoring software. The storage of this data could be as simple as compiling a list or as complex as centrally synchronizing response metadata information across ANSS networks. At a minimum, the data would have to be collected, updated, organized, and stored and reports would be generated. B. Metadata Server Access to information required to process seismic data or to describe earthquake products is a critical requirement for most ANSS National Operation Center (NOC) subsystems as well systems at the ANSS regional seismic networks. This metadata includes information such as station locations, channel responses, geographic names, important cities, and significant earthquakes. To satisfy the need for metadata availability, central, redundant Metadata Servers are required. This would involve: " Data storage containing a diverse collection of easily accessible metadata parameters, " Server processes supporting many concurrent, light weight clients, " Support applications for maintaining metadata holdings, and " A mechanism for replicating holdings with other (possibly remote) Metadata Servers. Types of Metadata Initially, the Metadata Server will be designed to manage and serve the Geographic and Station metadata. However, the likelihood that the types of metadata required will increase in the future should be taken into account in the server design. Geographic (accessed by latitude and longitude) 1. Region names 2. Important cities 3. Time zones 4. Railroad stations 5. Earthquake statistics 6. Tectonic summaries 7. Significant earthquakes 8. Station locations (the same information may be accessed geographically or by station code) Station (accessed by network, station, location, and channel code) 1. Station locations (the same information may be accessed by station code or geographically) 2. Station descriptions 3. Station aliases 4. Station instrumentation 5. Channel descriptions 6. Instrument responses C. Regional Network Earthquake Processing System (RNEPS). The ANSS plans to standardize on one earthquake processing system to be used at the ANSS Tier 1 and Tier 2 regional seismic networks. The system will be used for earthquake data acquisition, automatic processing, interactive analysis, and earthquake information distribution. Integrate the software into a package with the latest version of Earthworm. The package will be documented and ready to compile "out of the box" for Solaris platforms along with the Oracle database and post processing modules. Document the system with an overview of the system and in sufficient detail that users will be able to configure the modules of the system without needing to look at code. D. Installation of the RNEPS at ANSS Regional Networks Assist the ANSS regional networks in installing the RNEPS at ANSS Regional Seismic Networks (RSN), and conduct a training course either at the RSN facility or the contractor's facility. E. Automatic QC software The motivation for automatic quality control (AutoQC) of seismic waveform data is two fold: 1) the ability to apply some level of QC to all ANSS waveform data and 2) the ability to control seismic processing based on waveform quality. The USGS envisions the AutoQC being developed in three stages: Stage 1 will be the simplest form of AutoQC and would extend latency monitoring to include some basic waveform quality metrics (e.g., gaps, spikes, flat lines, large offsets, etc.). This processing could be done in real-time or off-line with a delay of hours. The essential outputs would be: 1) a periodic (e.g., daily) report of the state of the network and 2) flags suitable to suppress the use of poor waveforms in event association. Automatically suppressing event association has the advantages of reducing false alarms when stations go bad and reducing thresholds when stations are repaired, all without human intervention. Stage 2 of AutoQC would be to feed seismic processing information back into the QC (e.g., pick rate, pick residuals, and magnitude residuals. In Stage 3, AutoQC effort could be extended to include state-of-health information (e.g., calibration on) and auxiliary channels (e.g., mass position). It should also be possible to incorporate information about response issues determined through the ANSS probabilistic seismic noise subsystem. F. SeisNetWatch customized for Strong Motion Data The U.S. Geological Survey National Strong-Motion Project (NSMP) has the primary Federal responsibility for recording each damaging earthquake in the United States on the ground and in man-made structures in densely urbanized areas to improve public earthquake safety. The NSMP maintains a national cooperative instrumentation network in support of this responsibility. The network consists of four hundred and twenty digital recorders (330 dial-up and 90 real-time) which are hooked up to telephone lines for rapid retrieval and interpretation of on-scale (strong-motion) measurements in urbanized. The heart of the NSMP acquisition system is the Kinemetrics Network Management System (NMS) acquisition software. The NSMP would like upgrade this process to be more efficient. Based on the information available at this time, and in accordance with 41 U.S.C. 253 (c) (1), implemented by FAR 6.302-1, the Government considers the items specified as a sole source from Instrumental Software Technologies, Inc., New Paltz, NY, and proposes to negotiate a contract with that firm. However should additional sources be identified, they will be considered. Firms who feel that they can furnish the required item/services or its functional equivalent (based upon the criteria specified herein) are invited to submit in writing an affirmative response to this announcement. An affirmative response would include literature, brochures and such other materials, which correspond to the required items stated herein. This information will be evaluated and used to determine if competitive opportunities exist. Since no solicitation document exists, request for such document without accompanying information will be considered non-responsive to this request without further consideration. This notice may represent the Government's only official notice to the procurement. Please e-mail sctweten@USGS.gov. This is open to both large and small business. See note 22.
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