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FBO DAILY - FEDBIZOPPS ISSUE OF SEPTEMBER 19, 2018 FBO #6144
SOLICITATION NOTICE

R -- HURRICANE FLORENCE WIND MAPPING

Notice Date

9/17/2018
 

Notice Type

Justification and Approval (J&A)
 

NAICS

541690 — Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
 

Contracting Office

Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B130, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1410, United States
 

ZIP Code

20899-1410
 

Archive Date

10/12/2018
 

Point of Contact

Keith Bubar, Phone: 3019758329, Lynda M Horton, Phone: 3019753725
 

E-Mail Address

keith.bubar@nist.gov, Lynda.Horton@nist.gov
(keith.bubar@nist.gov, Lynda.Horton@nist.gov)
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Award Number

1333nd18pnb730488
 

Award Date

9/12/2018
 

Description

FEMA has Mission Assigned NIST to develop a rapid windfield estimate for Hurricane Florence as it made landfall. FEMA uses this wind field data as inputs to their Hazus Hurricane loss model, to estimate casualties, damage, sheltering needs, and other storm impacts. This is a life safety priority for FEMA, as they use the outputs from the Hazus model the help plan their response and position and allocate resources. ARA's hurricane modeling code to develop the wind field maps is proprietary, although the methodology has been well published in the technical peer-reviewed literature. Their hurricane wind field model is built into the Hazus Hurricane loss estimation model, which ARA developed for FEMA a decade or so ago. Other hurricane wind field models have been tried as inputs to Hazus, but they do not perform as accurately as those developed by ARA, which have been extensively validated as part of the Hazus development program. The Government, through both NIST and FEMA contracts, has already invested a several hundred thousand dollars specific to hurricane modeling for Hazus and also for rapid windfield modeling capabilities during the 2017 hurricane season. There is no other known source for they type of rapid hurricane wind field modeling needed.
 

Web Link

FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/notices/45661f56c4f0d1263fa9f14757e34b26)
 

Place of Performance

Address: 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, United States

Zip Code: 20899
 

Record

SN05092255-W 20180919/180917231142-45661f56c4f0d1263fa9f14757e34b26 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
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