SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- Notice of Intent: Assignment of Exclusive License to Develop and Commercialize the Unified Incident Command Decision Support (UICDS) Software System - Notice of Intent-Assignment of Exclusive License to Develop and Commercialize UICDS
- Notice Date
- 10/31/2013
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Office of the Chief Procurement Officer, Washington, District of Columbia, 20528, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20528
- Solicitation Number
- DHS-UICDS-14-01
- Archive Date
- 11/30/2013
- Point of Contact
- Mitchell D. Winans, Phone: 2022546365
- E-Mail Address
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mitchell.winans@hq.dhs.gov
(mitchell.winans@hq.dhs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
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- Description
- Notice of Intent-Assignment of Exclusive License to Develop and Commercialize UICDS Software System Assignment of Exclusive License to Develop and Commercialize the Unified Incident Command Decision Support (UICDS) Software System AGENCY: Science and Technology Directorate, U.S. Department of Homeland Security ACTION: Notice of Intent SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (DHS-S&T), located in Washington DC, intends to issue an exclusive royalty-free, sub-licensable worldwide license for the continued design, development, distribution, support and commercialization of the Unified Incident Command Decision Support software system (UICDS) to the National Institute for Hometown Security (NIHS) for an initial period of five years with provision for an extension. UICDS is a national "middleware foundation" designed to support information sharing for the National Response Framework and the National Incident Management System, including the Incident Command System. UICDS middleware is transparent to system operators during operations. It requires no special training. It is built around data standards and the National Information Exchange Model. UICDS enables information sharing across domains, roles, hazards, echelons and applications. Users of UICDS are emergency managers and incident commanders in different departments and agencies in federal, state, local, and tribal organizations as well as critical infrastructure owners/operators. Data ownership is retained and controlled by those who developed, processed, and stored it. Information cannot be pulled without permission. The user explicitly agrees to what fraction of their data can be shared through the UICDS software. Agreements among organizations establish information sharing policies for the flow of data in day-to-day situations and during an incident. UICDS supports the escalation of resource requests as personnel and resources are committed and deployed from small-scale mutual aid incidents to large-scale disasters. Organizations are represented and interconnected within a peer-to-peer network of UICDS software "cores," thus enabling multi-jurisdictional information sharing to adhere to policy agreements. UICDS software is available at no cost to emergency response providers. To date, over 250 companies, universities, and technology providers are actively engaged in UICDS development and deployment. The United States Government designed and contracted for the development of the UICDS software over several years and at a cost in excess of $12 million in order to provide United States Federal agencies and state, local, federally-recognized tribal, and territorial governments and other governmental first responder entities with the ability to share information across multiple electronic communications platforms in the planning for, responding to, and recovering from a natural or man-made disaster. The design of the UICDS software allows for possible commercial uses. The UICDS software package consists of computer software programs and related documentation reported as GSC-15756-1, and identified as "Unified Incident Command and Decision Support Software" and "Unified Incident Command and Decision Support Development Kit," developed under NASA Contract NNG08CA07C. The UICDS software comprises the Source Code, executable code (machine-readable code) and other documentation. The UICDS software is subject to United States Copyright law. The United States Government owns the copyright in the UICDS software, by assignment from SAIC, dated May 5, 2010, and has the right to grant the license to NIHS and its Affiliates. UICDS will transition from a fully government supported research & development and pilot demonstration program, to a market-based commodity program under the licensing agreement with NIHS. One stipulation of this agreement is the UICDS software (current and any future versions) must be made available without cost to the first responder community of federal, state, local and tribal governments. The objectives of this transition are to: (1) Commercialize the UICDS middleware software product through an operations and business model that ultimately sustains UICDS independently of direct government financial support and drives the deployment of the product nationally; and, (2) Forge an open source software environment that encourages the adoption of the product and its ongoing development. No additional DHS-S&T funding will be provided to support this endeavor. To accomplish this transition, NIHS will establish "The UICDS Enterprise." The components of the UICDS Enterprise should include: (1) NIHS; (2) a UICDS Consortium consisting of university researchers, end-users (including First Responder representation), applications developers and software vendors; and, (3) subcontractors that provide support services to fulfill The UICDS Enterprise mission. The components will operate in a coordinated manner to distribute the UICDS software to first responder agencies and achieve the additional objective to develop the software as a commercial product and services. Tasks required to accomplish this goal include: 1. Develop and maintain a UICDS Enterprise Business Plan 2. Establish and Maintain a Consortium of UICDS Researchers, Developers, End-Users and Vendors 3. Establish and Maintain an Open Source Environment that Supports Continued Development of the UICDS Core 4. Engage in User-Community Outreach activities and Technical Support Necessary to Implement the UICDS Enterprise Operations Plan developed as part of the UICDS R&D task. Outreach activities include: a. Operate the UICDS web site at www.uicds.us b. Conduct a bi-weekly conference call/webinar type video call with vendors, UICDS users, and supporting researchers in universities and federal laboratories. Typically, 80 to 100 people participate in this conference call. c. Publish a bi-weekly UICDS newsletter covering development activities, operational pilots and other matters of interest to the UICDS community. d. Participate in annual national conferences of organizations such as NEMA and IAEM by providing a display booth to demonstrate UICDS. For planning purposes, plan on six conferences of four days duration. DHS intends to grant to NIHS the right to sublicense the UICDS software for commercial purposes under the following conditions: No less than 50% of net profits from commercial licensing and the provision of associated support or services of the UICDS software, shall be used by NIHS to further the UICDS software maintenance, development and distribution, including but not limited to activities related to making the UICDS software accessible to First Responders, program management, research and development, commercialization and intellectual property protection. NIHS may apply for registration of any trademark or service mark or assert any common law rights in marks associated with any version of the UICDS software that it licenses commercially or to others, who are not First Responders. "First Responders" is defined to mean those Federal, State and local governmental agencies and entities and Federally-recognized tribal governments and entities that in the early stages of an emergency incident are responsible for the protection and preservation of life, property, evidence, and the environment, including: emergency public safety, fire, law enforcement, emergency response and emergency medical (including hospital emergency facilities) agencies. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Mitchell Winans, email: Mitchell.Winans@HQ.DHS.GOV
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