SPECIAL NOTICE
99 -- Sole Source Notice
- Notice Date
- 11/9/2009
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- Contracting Office
- Bureau of Reclamation-DO-Acquisition Operations Group PO Box 25007, 84-27810 Denver CO 80225
- ZIP Code
- 80225
- Archive Date
- 11/9/2010
- E-Mail Address
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Point of Contact above, or if none listed, contact the IDEAS EC HELP DESK for assistance
(EC_helpdesk@NBC.GOV)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Bureau of Reclamation, Acquisition Operations Group, Denver, Colorado, intends to award a contract on a sole-source basis to SureWorks, LLc, 1607 Ervine Avenue, Longmont, CO 80501. This requirement is for software/electrical engineering support to develop software and computer programming related to the development of enhancements to a boat-towed video imaging system to enumerate and identify small fishes in highly turbid and high velocity water conditions. The imaging system development includes fabricating second-generation waterproof camera housing, computer-camera interface communication, and a LabVIEW-based computer vision system and associated add-on Vision Development Module from information learned during laboratory and field testing during the previous year. The software engineer must be familiar with LabView software, computer-controlled lighting, overall electronic configurations, turbidity reduction, and fish recognition. The ship-borne computer/data acquisition system will need to display real-time images, computational object recognition results, counts, and graphs, and record only instances with detected visual events. The software must be able to perform filtering, object detection, event detection, recording events (volatile memory to storage transfer), measuring and converting image-centric measurements to real-world units. Ultimately, this system and software components must be user-friendly to enable non-programmers to make complex software changes without the need for a dedicated software engineer. The developed video imaging system will need to be tested under simulated trawl conditions in the hydraulic flumes at Reclamation's Denver Hydraulics Laboratory and in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. An understanding of water conditions, targeted fishes, and local natural resource agencies of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta is required. The proposed contractor, SureWorks, LLc., has been working over the past year developing and testing a submersible device that uses a video imaging system to identify and count objects (fish) in turbid water. They have investigated video imaging limitations under simulated mid-water trawl conditions in a recirculating enclosed system, flumes at Reclamation's Denver Hydraulics Laboratory, and in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. They have performed analyses under a range of turbidities found in the Delta (0-60 NTU, nephelometric turbidity units), which is the primary limiting factor for performing video recognition in these waters. SureWorks has designed, fabricated, and tested an underwater housing to attach to the cod-end of a towed-net and perform under strict buoyancy, pitch, yaw, and roll specifications. The device has been tested in flows up to 0.9 m/sec. They have also configured two high-speed cameras mounted along with electrical components between the inner acrylic hull and the aluminum outer hull that provide simultaneous horizontal and vertical video streams along with a complex lighting system. The electrical system (lighting, light driving, sensor sampling, cameras, camera power, lightning protection, and smaller subsystems, GPS location, pressure for depth (inner and outer), humidity, temperature (air inside hull), water flow rate (from pressure differential), and tilt angle (and rate) from accelerometers) has been constructed and tested and is working according to specification.The software system that SureWorks has designed and assembled is nearly complete and requires additional work on the vision algorithm and some flume testing for usability and data flow. SureWorks has designed a software system comprising of a user interface that includes data visualization, sensor acquisition, alarming conditions, camera inputs, and data recording, along with a vision algorithm that is actively detecting fish-sized objects using CUDA algorithms for parallel computational elements to accelerate applications, in our case, a background subtraction algorithm. Competition is restricted to only one source under the authority of the commercial item test program found at FAR 13.501(a). This procurement will be awarded using simplified acquisition procedures at FAR Part 13 with an intended performance period of November 30, 2009 - September 30, 2010. Anticipated award date is November 30, 2009. All responsible sources may submit a capability statement or proposal by 2:00 pm MST, November 13, 2009, which shall be considered by the agency. Responses to this notice shall be submitted to Rob Brackett, Contract Specialist via email to rbrackett@usbr.gov
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