SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Road and Street Network Geospatial Data and Technical Support
- Notice Date
- 8/12/2009
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Transportation, Office of the Secretary of Tranportation (OST) Procurement Operations, OST Acquisition Services Division, 1200 New Jersey Ave, Washington, District of Columbia, 20590
- ZIP Code
- 20590
- Solicitation Number
- DTOS59-09-R-00022
- Archive Date
- 8/31/2010
- Point of Contact
- James H Mowery III, Phone: 202-366-4959, James H Mowery III, Phone: 202-366-4959
- E-Mail Address
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james.mowery@dot.gov, james.mowery@dot.gov
(james.mowery@dot.gov, james.mowery@dot.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The “Response Date” for submittal of proposals, as shown in this Synopsis, is only an ESTIMATED due date. The ACTUAL due-date for proposals will be specified in the forthcoming Request for Proposals (RFP). A PREVIOUS Special Notice concerning the new project here Synopsized was published in FedBizOpps on June 11, 2009, under the identifying number DTOS59-09-C-00429. One or more interested companies submitted Statements of Qualifications to the U. S. Department of Transportation (DOT) in response to that June 11th Special Notice. After reviewing the response(s) to the June 11th Special Notice, DOT determined that the project here synopsized should be made FULL-AND-OPEN-COMPETITIVE. This Synopsis therefore SUPERSEDES that June 11th Special Notice. In addition to making this project full-and-open-competitive, DOT has EXPANDED this project, beyond the narrow scope indicated in the June 11th Special Notice, to include not only the LEASING of road-and-street-network geospatial data, but also the contractor’s rendering of technical support to DOT’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) for RITA’s use of such geospatial data, and the contractor’s integration of such data into RITA’s existing computer systems, as is more fully described below. In addition, DOT has lengthened the Period of Performance of this project, from the one year envisioned in the June 11th Special Notice, to one Base Year with four Option Years. The INCUMBENT contractor is Tele Atlas, North America, Inc., located at 11 LaFayette Street, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03766-1445. Tele Atlas has been licensing its geospatial road-and-street-network data (covering the U. S.) to RITA under Purchase Order No. DTOS59-08-P-0043. The following is precisely how the work-description in that incumbent Purchase Order document reads: “Annual License for 100 users Geographic Coverage National” and “Period of Performance 02/25/2008 to 02/24/2009”. A copy of the incumbent contractor’s cost proposal for the incumbent Purchase Order cannot be released under a FOIA request, because it consists of proprietary information. Because the incumbent contractor has objected to the disclosure of the total price of the incumbent’s Purchase Order No. DTOS59-08-P0043, it is the contracting officer’s belief that such pricing information likewise would not be releasable under a FOIA request. In conclusion, it is the contracting officer’s belief that FOIA requesters would not be able to obtain any useful information that has not already been disclosed in this Synopsis. The following text (which is set forth below an initial horizontal line and above a concluding horizontal line) is a DRAFT version of the Statement of Work for the new project here synopsized: ____________________________________________________________________________ Introduction The Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics (RITA/BTS) is the lead agency for Geospatial Information and Services within the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT). As such, RITA/BTS has many responsibilities: •Represents the USDOT in the Federal Geographic Data Committee. •Collects geospatial data from throughout the USDOT, converts it to a standard format, performs QA/QC on each dataset, produces metadata for each dataset, and distributes the data as part of the National Transportation Atlas Databases (NTAD). The NTAD is distributed as an annual CDROM release and through internet downloads. •Develops geospatial applications to assist in the analysis of transportation issues. •Provides geospatial mapping and analysis support to RITA/BTS and the other USDOT agencies. •Provides geospatial mapping and analysis support, including 24-7 on-call support, to the USDOT Crisis Management Center (CMC) and Continuity of Operations (COOP) site. Many, if not all of these responsibilities require a seamless, complete, up-to-date, and routable geospatial road-and-street network. No such data exists in the public domain, so RITA/BTS requires a lease of commercial geospatial road-and-street network data. This data must be integrated with other geospatial transportation networks and facilities to form a multi-modal network that supports routing across modes. This multi-modal network is used as input to the RITA/BTS application GeoMiler. Task 1: Lease of Geospatial Road-and-Street network Data The contractor shall provide a seamless, complete, and up-to-date geospatial road-and-street network to RITA/BTS for use in its applications. The data must support vehicle routing and navigation. The contractor shall provide RITA/BTS with semi-annual updates to this data. Task 2: Technical Support The contractor shall provide technical support to RITA/BTS geospatial staff on the use of the geospatial road-and-street network data provided to RITA/BTS by the contractor. This support shall be available during normal business hours Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. Normal business hours are defined as 8:00am through 6:00pm Eastern Standard Time or Eastern Daylight Time, as applicable. Task 3: Integration into GeoMiler Multi-modal Network The geospatial road-and-street network data provided to RITA/BTS by the contractor must be integrated with other geospatial transportation networks and facilities to form a multi-modal transportation network that supports routing across modes. This multi-modal network is used as input to the RITA/BTS application GeoMiler. The GeoMiler application was developed by RITA/BTS (who owns the intellectual property rights) to calculate the most likely routes taken by shipments sampled in the Commodity Flow Survey, which is performed every 5 years. Many of the shipments are multi-modal, which leads to the requirement for a multi-modal transportation network. There is proprietary information embedded in the GeoMiler application, so it cannot be shared with this procurement’s offerors. Although the GeoMiler application cannot be shared, the data elements that comprise the transportation multi-modal network can and will be shared so that this task can be completed. To complete this task, several subtasks must be performed: Task 3a: Creation of Subnetwork The GeoMiler application uses a subset of all roads that represent major routes across the country. The subset is approximately 1 million miles. The subset is based on the functional classifications of the roads. Once the subset is extracted from the complete road-and-street network, it must be optimized for routing by removing extraneous nodes. The resulting subnetwork must be tested to ensure it functions correctly for routing. Task 3b: Integration with Other Transportation Networks/Facilities The subnetwork created in Task 3a must be physically connected, through the creation of straight line geospatial links, with the following geospatial transportation networks and facilities: ZIP Code centroids (approximately 43,000 points): TeleAtlas North America, Incorporated, and Navteq, already possess this data. Others can find it through a web search. Airports (475 points): Available for download at http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_atlas_database/2008/ Seaports (201 points): Available for download at http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_atlas_database/2008/ Docks (4,724 points): Available for download at http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_atlas_database/2008/ Intermodal facilities (2,602 points): Available for download at http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_atlas_database/2008/ Rail network (through intermodal facilities): Available for download at http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_atlas_database/2008/ Navigable water network (through intermodal facilities): Available for download at http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_atlas_database/2008/ Canadian and Mexican road networks (90 border crossing points): Available for download at http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_atlas_database/2008/ Task 3c: Testing and Verification of Multi-modal Network The multi-modal network created in Task 3b must be tested for use in the RITA/BTS application GeoMiler. The testing will use origin-destination pairs that have been verified in the existing GeoMiler. Errors that are found during this process must be corrected. Tasks 1 and 2 above are annual tasks throughout the Period of Performance listed below. Task 3 is a one time effort that will occur in the base year. Government Furnished Information The contractor shall be provided with the data listed in Task 3b. Period of Performance Base Year: December 1, 2009 through November 30, 2010 Option Year 1: December 1, 2010 through November 30, 2011 Option Year 2: December 1, 2011 through November 30, 2012 Option Year 3: December 1, 2012 through November 30, 2013 Option Year 4: December 1, 2013 through November 30, 2014 ____________________________________________________________________________ Task 1 of the new project here synopsized is not expected to require the working of any staffing hours, but will instead simply have an agreed-upon lease-price for each year of the project. Task 2 of the new project here envisioned is estimated to require 50 hours of a GIS Analyst’s time in each year of the project. Task 3 of the new project here envisioned is estimated to require 1,600 hours of a GIS Analyst’s time, to be worked in only the Base Year of the project. IT SHALL BE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF EACH PROSPECTIVE OFFEROR TO CLOSELY AND FREQUENTLY MONITOR THE FEDBIZOPPS WEBSITE FOR ANY AMENDMENTS TO THIS SYNOPSIS, AS SUCH AMENDMENTS USUALLY CONTAIN CRUCIAL INFORMATION.
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