SOLICITATION NOTICE
H -- Argus Beach Monitoring Station (ABMS) video-based remote sensing system
- Notice Date
- 12/19/2017
- Notice Type
- Justification and Approval (J&A)
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, USACE District, Los Angeles, 915 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 930, Los Angeles, California, 90017-3401, United States
- ZIP Code
- 90017-3401
- Solicitation Number
- W912PL-18-R-0003
- Archive Date
- 3/16/2018
- Point of Contact
- Stanislav Sekacov, Phone: 2134523216, James M. Costantino, Phone: 213-452-3237
- E-Mail Address
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Stanislav.Y.Sekacov@usace.army.mil, james.m.costantino@usace.army.mil
(Stanislav.Y.Sekacov@usace.army.mil, james.m.costantino@usace.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Award Number
- W912PL-18-R-0003
- Award Date
- 2/14/2018
- Description
- JUSTIFICATION AND APPROVAL FOR OTHER THAN FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION Item 1: Agency and Contracting Activity This procurement is for the US Army Corps of Engineers - Los Angeles District (SPL). The contracting agency is the U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers (USACE). Item 2: Nature and/or Description of Action Being Approved Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. Item 3: Supplies or Services Required to Meet the Agency Needs (including estimated value) The Los Angeles District requires video-based remote sensing data along a 2 mile-long coastal margin in the City of San Clemente, Orange County, CA (project location) for 2 years duration to support the USACE storm damage reduction mission. The primary objectives of this remote sensing monitoring program are: a) Quantify the spatial and temporal evolution of shoreline change on City of San Clemente beach. b) Detection and mapping of changes in nearshore morphology located along City of San Clemente Beach. c) Monitor wave breaking within and adjacent to the nearshore reef at T Street. d) Provide near real-time images (time exposure, snap shot, and variance) on the City of San Clemente website for this site. e) Support Regional Sediment Management by meeting the above objectives to improve resource and risk management of the nearshore system as it is affected by sediment. The Los Angeles District requires the services of a suitably qualified vendor to install a 10-camera Argus Beach Monitoring Station (ABMS) video-based remote sensing system to meet the study goals and objectives. Specifically, SPL requires the services of a qualified vendor during the performance period for operating, maintaining, and performing imagery analysis of data obtained from the ABMS installed within the City of San Clemente. In the event that the system is compromised, the vendor must be able to re-activate the system to provide function within 2-3 days. The vendor must have capability to provide active maintenance of the system on location. Within the scope of this procurement, the vendor shall maintain the ABMS to monitor the evolution of submerged and emergent morphology on the open-coast beach in the project area. The vendor shall explore opportunities to improve the performance of the ABMS, within budgetary constraints of the project. Performance is indicated by system reliability, imagery coverage/clarity, realized data accuracy, and derivative analysis for the ABMS dataset. The ABMS shall be operated and maintained in a cost-effective manner. The accuracy and precision of the archived ABMS imagery shall have similar accuracy as GPS-RTK and of sufficient coverage for the purpose of calculating sediment volume change in the intertidal zone. The ABMS shall be operated and maintained such that it performs reliably in the harsh marine environment and provide real-time web-based images during storm events. See the companion scope of work for the proposed procurement, "Statement of Work, Argus Beach Monitoring System and Report". The work to be performed through this proposed acquisition would provide scientific services; a blend of instrumentation implementation/operation, data collection/analysis, and applied research. The average cost of operating and maintaining an ABMS and performing requisite data archival, reporting and analysis obtained under this procurement is estimated to be [REDACTED] with an additional first-year installation cost of [REDACTED]. The proposed procurement would be for a two year period [REDACTED]. The ABMS can survey/monitor a 2-mile long section of City of San Clemente beach every hour, during viewable daylight. An equivalent capability using conventional land-surveying or aerial-photogrametry techniques would not be possible, from a resource standpoint. If resources were hypothetically available, the cost of hourly surveying the City of San Clemente beach would be greater than $3 million per year. Item 4: Statutory Authority 10 U.S.C. 2304 (c)(1) and FAR 6.302.1 Item 5: Reason for Using the Sole Source Procurement Authority Cited Above The Argus beach monitoring system (ABMS) is the only cost-effective video-based remote sensing system, available within CONUS, which can survey and monitor the evolution of submerged and emergent morphology on an open-coast beach. ABMS is not a web cam. It is a quantitative surveying tool composed of digital video cameras, customized computer software and hardware, an automated imagery acquisition and archival system, real-time telemetry, imagery analysis tools, and consulting services. Oregon State University is the owner of the entire right, title and interest in the technology entitled "Argus Beach Monitoring Station", or ABMS. There are no proprietary arrangements between the owner of Argus technology and vendors available within CONUS. A previous agreement with Northwest Research Associates, Inc. (NWRA), a Washington corporation/small business concern, and the State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of Oregon State University, an institution of higher education in the State of Oregon, was severed in 2016. The Oregon State University had previously granted the exclusive right and license to: (a) Make, have made, use, install, sell and otherwise deal with Argus Stations and New stations in North America (hereinafter referred to as "Territory"), including Sales to Third Parties Located in the Territory for use by or for such Third Parties within or outside the Territory and including use by Company within or outside the Territory of any Argus Station or New Station that Company may acquire by any legal means within the Territory; (b) Develop make, have made, use, install, sell and otherwise deal with New Stations in the Territory; (c) Use the name "Argus" in connection with the use, advertising, marketing, promotion and Sale of Argus Systems or services utilizing Argus Stations and New Stations in the Territory; (d) Use, copy, reproduce, reduce to practice and make derivatives of any of the licensed technologies in connection with the exercise of any of the rights granted under (a) or (b) of this paragraph; and (e) Sub-license any of the rights granted under (a), (b) or (c) of this paragraph. All Sub-licensees will be subject to the terms and conditions of this agreement. Northwest Research Associated, Inc. (NWRA) was the only Argus vendor available in the US. Based on their prior experience with installing and operating ABMS stations presently in the US and other locations worldwide, Oregon State University has significant insight to the specific operational requirements for operating and maintaining ABMS, the dynamics and interaction of geomorphologic-infrastructure features of the project area, analyzing imagery data obtained from the installation, and the challenges of maintaining a real-time data telemetry link. In consideration of the above (sole CONUS ABMS vendor and prior ABMS experience), Oregon State University is uniquely qualified for the award of a new USACE-SPL contract to operate and maintain the City of San Clemente ABMS, and perform data analysis of ABMS imagery. Item 6: Description of Efforts to ensure that offers are solicited from as Many Potential Sources as Practicable Efforts have been made by SPL personnel to determine feasible methods for monitoring shoreline change along the coastal margin near the City of San Clemente. Many technical conferences have been attended to learn of various monitoring methods and capabilities, web searches have been conducted, and interviews with numerous points of contact within the USACE coastal engineering community have been queried. The singular outcome of the above assessment was Oregon State University. A market survey is summarized (in Item 8). The result is that Oregon State University is the sole vendor of an integrated system which meets the needs of SPL. Item 7: Determination of Fair and Reasonable Cost Based on previous services performed by Oregon State University for USACE-NWP (Portland District) in 2016, the estimated one-time cost for fabrication, calibration, and installation is [REDACTED] and the annual cost for operation, maintenance, and analysis of the City of San Clemente ABMS is [REDACTED] in year 1 and [REDACTED] in year 2. These costs include requisite data archival, reporting and extensive analysis, assisting SPL with public outreach, and time-related escalation. The ABMS can survey/monitor a 2-mile long section of City of San Clemente beach every hour, during viewable daylight. An equivalent capability using conventional land-surveying or aerial-photogrammetry techniques would not be possible, from a resource standpoint. If resources were hypothetically available, the cost of hourly surveying City of San Clemente beach would be greater than $3M per year. Based on the above cost information, the City of San Clemente ABMS has the potential to save over $2.8M per year when compared to conventional surveying techniques. Item 8: Market Survey This procurement requires a video-based remote sensing system which can be used to survey and monitor the evolution of submerged and emergent morphology on a 2 mile long open-coast beach and encompass a 0.5 mile offshore extent to monitor breaking wave action. The system is to provide a cost-effective method for monitoring shoreline change with high spatial and temporal (daily) resolution and to quantify shoreline position and volumetric change with a high degree of accuracy. The system will also provide surveillance of the wave conditions within and adjacent to the T Street reef. The system must be robust, reliable and able to survive the harsh marine environment and provide images during storm events. In the event that the system is compromised, the vendor must be able to re-activate the system to provide function within 2-3 days. The vendor must have capability to provide active maintenance of the system on location. Seven groups are presently known to have demonstrated the capability to provide a video-based system capable of various levels of monitoring shoreline position and nearshore wave action. Four of the six groups operate outside of CONUS. The four groups outside CONUS include: Argus, run by Delft Institute of Hydraulics; Coastal Watch-Surf Cams, run by Australia Bureau of Meteorology; Cam-Era, run by National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research Ltd from New Zealand; and Cyclops Coastal Imaging Stations, run by a spin-off venture from University of Natal in South Africa, Pure and Applied Physics department. The Coastal Watch system is a video imaging systems without rigorous geo-spatial integration or analysis capability. The Coastal Watch and Cam-Era systems have capability to perform limited geo-spatial integration and analysis capability. The Cyclops Coastal Imaging Stations are quantitative video systems in South Africa and the Middle East; little is known about their capabilities. Of the three groups which operate within CONUS, one is a private sector entity: Erdman Video Systems, Inc. based in Miami, Florida. Erdman Video Systems, Inc. is a web-cam group that can implement some rudimentary quantitative capability to their product. Through an agreement with the Argus community, this group provides low-cost systems with limited (lower resolution and accuracy) quantitative capabilities using elements of the Argus software system, provided from Oregon State University. At present, this group cannot provide quantitative information to meet the objectives stated above and does not meet the needs of SPL. The second CONUS group is the US Geological Survey (USGS). The USGS system is based on Argus technology (provided through Oregon State University) and possesses some of the capabilities presently provided by the ABMS installations performed by Oregon State University. Consequently, the ARGUS system available from USGS does not meets SPL requirements nor does the USGS offer Argus services to other federal agencies on a reimbursable basis due to lack of personnel. Oregon State University is the only entity located within CONUS that has demonstrated the capability to apply a video-based system to concurrently meet the project goals and objectives described. Cam-Era - Hamilton, New Zealand http://www.naturalhazards.net.nz Coastal Watch, Surf Cams - Australia Bureau of Meteorology http://www.coastalwatch.com/news/article.aspx?articleId=2952&cateId=36&title=Shoreline%20positioning%20monitoring%20-%20Surfers%20Paradise&display=0 Cyclops Coastal Imaging Station - South Africa http://www.cyclops.nu.ac.za/coastal_imaging.htm Delft Hydraulics, Delft, Netherlands - Argus Video Systems https://www.deltares.nl/en/projects/argus-video-systems/ Erdman Video Systems, Inc- Miami, FL, USA http://video-monitoring.com/beachcams/webcams.htm US Geological Survey http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/rvm/ Item 9: Other Facts Supporting the Use of Other than Full and Open Competition None Item 10: List of Sources, if any, that Expressed a Written Interest in the Acquisition None Item 11: Actions that are being Taken to Remove and Overcome Any Barriers to Competition before any Subsequent Acquisitions for the Supplies or Service are Required None within SPL. Dependent on the coastal engineering services community to develop alternative systems comparable to the ABMS. There is not a large market for the type of services being presently requested: operation and maintenance of a video-based remote sensing system which can be used to survey and monitor the evolution of submerged and emergent morphology on an open-coast beach. Until alternative products are developed by competing companies, the ABMS (as supplied by Oregon State University) will be the only such system available within CONUS.
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- Address: San Clemente, Orange County, CA, United States
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