SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- NIST Community Resilience Program Support - AMDTC-16-0001_Community Resilience Program Support Sources Sought Notice (2015-10-01)
- Notice Date
- 10/1/2015
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- 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
- Solicitation Number
- AMDTC-16-0001
- Point of Contact
- Chantel Adams, Phone: 3019756338, Keith Bubar, Phone: 3019758329
- E-Mail Address
-
chantel.adams@nist.gov, keith.bubar@nist.gov
(chantel.adams@nist.gov, keith.bubar@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- AMDTC-16-0001_Community Resilience Program Support Sources Sought Notice (2015-10-01) This is a Sources Sought Notice ONLY. Requests for copies of a solicitation will not receive a response. This Notice is for planning purposes only and is not a Request for Proposal or Request for Quotation or an obligation on the part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for conducting a follow-on acquisition. NIST does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this Notice, or otherwise pay for the information requested. No entitlement or payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by NIST will arise as a result of submission of responses to this Notice and NIST use of such information. NIST recognizes that proprietary components, interfaces and equipment, and clearly mark restricted or proprietary components, interfaces and equipment, and clearly mark restricted or proprietary data and present it as an addendum to the non-restricted/non-proprietary information. In the absence of such identification, NIST will assume to have unlimited rights to all technical data in the information paper. NO SOLICITATION DOCUMENTS EXIST AT THIS TIME. Background: Natural, technological, and human-caused hazards cause significant losses in the United States each year. Single events, such as Superstorm Sandy or Hurricane Katrina can cause not only large direct losses, but also substantial indirect losses. While most hazard events affect local communities or regions, the consequences of the disruption that these events cause can be far-reaching. To address these issues, NIST has undertaken a program to develop the tools and guidance necessary to plan and implement measures to enhance community resilience. The NIST program has two parallel thrusts: • Outreach activities to engage the broad field of stakeholders that are needed for planning and implementing resilience in communities, including a Community Resilience Panel and engagement with communities and stakeholders about NIST guidance documents and tools. • Research and development activities to develop the science-basis for tools that support planning, analysis, assessment, and decision making. Outreach activities. As its first major product, NIST developed the Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems (Guide) through a series of workshops across the country and input by industry experts. NIST will continue to develop guidance documents and tools for community resilience. The Guide can be found at www.nist.gov/el/resilience. NIST has engaged Disaster Resilience Fellows to assist with engaging community resilience stakeholders ( http://www.nist.gov/el/resilience/upload/NIST-Disaster-Resilience-Fellows-Summary-Update.pdf ). The Disaster Resilience Fellows help develop the Guide and continue to support the development of other guidance, the Community Resilience Panel (Panel), and with community outreach and engagement activities. NIST is providing federal leadership to convene a Panel to engage and connect community and cross-sector stakeholders by creating a process to encourage and support community resilience that focuses on buildings and infrastructure systems. Panel activities will include: • Identifying policy and standards-related gaps and impediments to community resilience. • Raising awareness of sector dependencies and cascading effects of disasters. • Identifying or developing consistent definitions and metrics relating to resilience for use across sectors. • Contributing to current and future resilience guidance documents. • Reducing barriers to achieving community resilience. • Developing and maintaining a Resilience Knowledge Base, a repository of existing documents, data, and tools. The Panel will not develop standards such as those developed by voluntary standards developing organizations, but its efforts will inform their development and help provide a foundation for standards and codes produced by those organizations. The Panel members will participate in an open, transparent process. In the potential upcoming contract, the contractor will act as the Panel Administrator. It is expected that the Panel Administrator will convene Panel meetings twice a year, and manage the associated planning and logistics. It is also expected that the Panel Administrator will manage the website at www.CRPanel.org, support other Panel leadership and task group meetings (in person or virtual), and other associated tasks for the successful conduct of the Panel. Research and development activities. NIST is conducting research to develop tools to assess resilience at the community scale. NIST has also funded a Community Resilience Center of Excellence (CoE) and works collaboratively with the CoE. In February 2015, NIST announced establishment of the CoE that is focusing on tools to support community resilience, including the development of integrated, systems-based computational models to assess community infrastructure resilience and guide community-level resilience investment decisions. The center, led by Colorado State University partnering with 10 other universities, will also develop a data management infrastructure, as well as tools and best practices to improve the collection of disaster and resilience data. See http://www.nist.gov/coe/resilience/index.cfm for more information. NIST is developing a community resilience assessment methodology as a first step toward developing assessment tools for communities. Ongoing research includes identifying the social functions in communities (e.g., health, education, business, etc.), the social and physical assets that support each function, the attributes of those assets, and the connections, or dependencies that exist among the assets. NIST is conducting research to develop systems-based modeling approaches in collaboration with the CoE. The approaches will be used to model physical, social, and economic systems in a community, their level of functionality before and after a damaging event, the effect of dependencies and cascading failures on recovery, and the time-based recovery of physical systems and their functionality. This research will support the development of tools to measure community resilience. NIST research is also being conducted to establish the technical basis for economic tools to evaluate investment options to improve community resilience. It is envisioned that community-level data, including baseline data for resilience planning and implementation, response, and recovery, may need to be collected to support development and validation of tools. Summary of Requirement: NIST is seeking information on the availability of sources capable of supporting NIST in meeting its major program objectives, which may include but is not limited to: (a) Providing administrative support for the Community Resilience Panel (b) Developing future versions of the Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems (c) Developing the Implementation Guidelines to support the Guide, and other guidance documents (d) Developing tools to measure resilience at the community-scale (e) Developing tools to support decision-makers in evaluating alternatives to enhance community resilience (f) Conducting R&D to support the development of assessment tools, integrated systems modeling, and decision-support tools for community resilience (g) Assisting with resilience-related data collection and transportation, preservation, and storage of data collected. Interested parties shall describe the capabilities of their organization as it relates to the services described above. NIST anticipates issuing a Request for Proposal in the first or second quarter of FY2016, and awarding a contract no later than the third quarter of FY2016. NIST is seeking responses from all responsible sources, including large and small businesses. The small business size standard associated with the NAICS code for this effort, 541712, is 500 employees. Please include your company's size classification and socio-economic status in any response to this notice. After results of this market research are obtained and analyzed, NIST may conduct a competitive procurement and subsequently award a contract(s). Companies that can provide such services are requested to email a written response describing their abilities to chantel.adams@nist.gov and keith.bubar@nist.gov no later than the response date for this sources sought notice. The following information is requested to be provided as part of the response to this sources sought notice: 1. Name, Address, DUNS number, CAGE code, and point of contact information of your company. 2. Any information on the company's small business certifications, if applicable. 3. Description of your company's capabilities, experience and qualifications as they relate to the services described in this notice. 4. A description of your company's previous experience providing the services described in this notice. 5. Indication of whether the services described in this notice are currently on one or more GSA Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contracts or other applicable contracts and, if so, the applicable contract number(s). 6. Any other relevant information that is not listed above which the Government should consider in finalizing its market research. Responses are limited to a total of twelve (12) pages. The responses must be in MS Word format. Pages shall be 8½-inch x 11-inch, using Times New Roman 11 Point Font. Each page shall have adequate margins on each side (at least one inch) of the page. Header/footer information (which does not include any information to be analyzed) may be included in the 1" margin space.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, United States
- Zip Code: 20899
- Zip Code: 20899
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