SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- Notice of Intent to Award Non-Competitive Purchase Order
- Notice Date
- 9/6/2012
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541511
— Custom Computer Programming Services
- Contracting Office
- USGS OAG SACRAMENTO ACQUISITION BR.MODOC HALL, CSUS3020 STATE UNIVERSITY DRIVE EASTSACRAMENTOCA95819-6027US
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- G12PS00891
- Response Due
- 9/13/2012
- Archive Date
- 10/13/2012
- Point of Contact
- Donald Shannon
- E-Mail Address
-
dshannon@usgs.gov
(dshannon@usgs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The USGS, Earthquake Science Center, anticipates making a non-competitive award to Instrumental Software Technologies, Inc. for a continuation of software development activities relating to the National Strong Motion Project. The National Strong Motion Project (NSMP) of USGS has an ongoing project with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on development of state-of-health monitoring (SHM) system for VA hospitals in seismically active regions. One of the components of this system is the monitoring and processing software package. Instrumental Software Technologies, Inc (ISTI) wrote the Earthworm modules and the SeisNetWatch (SNW) Server/Client and Web page used in the SHM software package of the NSMP. ISTI has been working with Earthworm for the last 14 years and are currently contracted to support the USGS to maintain and improve the software for both the Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS) and also the Geomagnetism program. ISTI teaches Earthworm courses and provides commercial support for the Earthworm system to numerous non-governmental groups as well as international researchers. The Earthworm data export software that runs on the seismic digitizer (Basalt/Granite series) being used by the VA project were written by ISTI for Kinemetrics. In addition, ISTI also wrote a SNW module that runs on the digitizer for monitoring its state of health. They have key knowledge of the Earthworm modules developed for the SHM system, and for monitoring their health using SNW, being the principal authors of these codes. ISTI developed over 9 specialized Earthworm modules for the NSMPs VA project and was also the architect of the data flow in the system being developed. In addition, the ISTI team helped to set up two complete SHM systems for testing: one at the Palo Alto VA in California, and another at the USGS office in Menlo Park for the local shake table. In addition, ISTI has run data collected from the University of Notre Dame through the system in a playback test with the USGS engineers and are thus familiar with the real-time feed and the playback modes. In addition to Earthworm developments for the VA project, the current web-based implementation using OpenLayers/Google Map was developed by ISTI on top of their SNW system. SNW was written by ISTI for Caltech and has been in continual development for over 12 years. SNW is a large software project (over 250,000 lines of Java and Python and C++ code) that would take a considerable effort for someone to become familiar with. Finally, key members of the ISTI team have been working with strong-motion data and seismic data acquisition in general for over 25+ years. ISTI personnel were authors of the NCEER strong motion database (the first on-line relational database of strong- motion data) as well as other tools for processing strong-motion data both independent of and connected with Earthworm. This key domain knowledge is critical to providing the proper output of the SHM system to structural engineers. ISTI understands the domain of structural health monitoring as well having worked on and researched the subject for the last 3 years. Because the uniformity in programming is important for the success of the project, it is the preference of NSMP to continue working with ISTI to complete the health-monitoring portion of the this interface. This award is contemplated under FAR Parts 13 (Simplified Acquisition Procedures). No solicitation will be issued for this requirement. Interested parties may provide a capability statement to the Buyer no later than 9/12/2012. Award of this order is anticipated on or before 9/14/2012 with a period of performance ending 2/28/2013.
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