SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- Comprehensive National Incident Management System (CNIMS)
- Notice Date
- 4/28/2016
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Defense Threat Reduction Agency (Headquarters), DTRA Annex, 8725 John J. Kingman Road, MSC 6201, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, 22060-6201
- ZIP Code
- 22060-6201
- Solicitation Number
- J4CRBISH0102
- Point of Contact
- Ricky Lee Edwards, Phone: 703-767-2830, Daisy Chang, Phone: 703-767-8263
- E-Mail Address
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Ricky.l.edwards1.ctr@mail.mil, Daisy.m.chang.civ@mail.mil
(Ricky.l.edwards1.ctr@mail.mil, Daisy.m.chang.civ@mail.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Solicitation Number: J4CRBISH0102 Notice Type: Sources Sought Synopsis: This is a SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE; there is no solicitation available at this time. No response will be provided to requests for a solicitation. THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE IS PUBLISHED FOR MARKET RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY. Description: Comprehensive National Incident Management System (CNIMS) Background: The Defense Threat Reduction Agency's (DTRA) mission is to safeguard America and its allies from Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high yield explosives) by providing capabilities to reduce, eliminate, and counter the threat, and mitigate its effects. DTRA's Research and Development Directorate (J9) is the focal point for identifying and developing innovative technologies to combat WMD and is responsible for designing, testing and demonstrating emerging technologies to be adopted by the Services, Combatant Commands and other agencies. Following guidance and operational concepts of senior DOD officials, the J9 provides solutions across the full range of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and High Explosive (CBRNE) WMD technologies. DTRA has a requirement to build a simulation system that incorporates details of interdependent social, behavioral, economic and societal infrastructure, mainly for CBRN decision informatics. The current research and development (R&D) capability is a collection of interoperable simulations of societal infrastructures coupled with individual-based social networks. The agent-based model provides 7.2 billion individuals, over 42 billion time varying activities at a temporal scale of minutes and spatial scale of few meters. The system provides detail and performance in scalable agent-based epidemiological models and co-evolving infrastructures in energy, transportation, and telecommunications systems. The capability will be used by Department of Defense planners and policy makers for analysis of optimal responses with primary, secondary and tertiary effects of a WMD insult on critical infrastructures in near real time using high-performance computers. The requirement is to build a simulation system to understand causality in complex, interacting (socio-technical) systems. Individual behaviors and relations in context determine collective phenomena - new organizational principles emerge at multiple scales with feedback across time, space, and scale. Interaction-based causal modeling has three distinct purposes: (1) explain an observed phenomenon (understanding and explanation); (2) forecast a range of future and counter-factual phenomena (exploration); (3) and to guide the course of actions in some specific problem context (action). The end-state goal is to simulate very large systems utilizing theoretical foundations of simulation of interaction-based systems, computing, and dynamical systems, computational and systems biology, computational problems in epidemiology, cognitive science and computationally aided reasoning, computational economics, and critical infrastructure simulation. Place of performance will be at the contractor's location. The following are projected task areas: Development and Integration: a) Explore, investigate and design new methods for capturing, storing, assessing and modifying large amounts of data as well as the flow of information in the system. This may include dynamically accessing agent-level broker resources such as data and/or services in order that resources communicate directly with each other over an integrated communications network. b) Simulate reactions to various WMD insults to include visibility into secondary effects and infrastructure response. Development includes the following: • Granular - Model response of each element (e.g.: each persons movement per second) • Reactive - Elements respond individually (e.g.: personnel response relative to society/family) • Co-evolving - Networks effect each other (e.g.: power effect water & sewage; effects hospitals) • Fast - Can support emergency decisions (e.g.: CONUS pandemic over 180 days runs in minutes) • Accessible - Warfighters & First Responders access via Website c) Develop or enhance models of the spread of infectious diseases by simulating movement, proximity, and interactions between individuals within a geographic region to support the evaluation of intervention strategies, such as vaccination, social distancing, work and/or school closing, antiviral treatment and/or prophylaxis. System should allow for the flexibility of creating new disease models and multiple types of analyses, such as infections/day and cumulative infection over a period of time. d) Develop methods and tools to model the zoonotic reservoir and its relationship with urban behavior and environment. e) Develop methods and tools to enable rapid epidemic logistical and response analytics, such as vaccine supply chain and deployment research analytics. f) Implement co-evolving critical infrastructures in the areas of electrical power/energy, telecommunications, and transportation systems. Represent interdependent infrastructures in an attack scenario, such as a nuclear weapon detonation. Further development may include gas and oil storage, banking and finance, water supply systems, emergency services (including medical, police, fire, and rescue) for analysis of interdependent infrastructure failures and course of action planning into an experimental research and development computing platform and prototype system. g) Develop means to implement surveillance data, sensing data, and bio-monitoring from external sources, suburban evacuation routes, population risk exposure, and continuity of government and military into an experimental research and development computing platform and prototype system. h) Incorporate new technology into usable analytical data and modify existing system source term data entry screens for course of action analysis on critical infrastructures and agents insulted by WMD and/or global outbreaks, such as pandemic influenza, into an experimental research and development computing platform and, ultimately, operational system. Develop the capability for scenario based analytics. i) Support the development of system, acceptance, security, qualification, and certification test plans as well as information assurance criteria, to include accreditation and certification. j) Support the testing and demonstration of the integrated components in its intended operational environment to include developmental testing and evaluation, risk monitoring, identification of external system interfaces, and interoperability assessments. k) Provide key subject-matter experts to support DTRA Reachback analysts, Combatant Commands, and other Government, state and local agencies with technical advice during exercises and operational needs as they pertain to the simulated infrastructure system and its outputs. Additionally, support and train subject-matter experts that will be using the system for exercises and real-world scenarios. l) Because it is necessary for only the systems engineers to have root access to the high- performance computers located at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, for maintenance, upgrading and installing hardware and software, they and only they must have minimal of a secret clearance. General Instruction: Sources Sought responses shall reflect corporate information and a capability summary reflecting experience related to the above task areas. Responses shall indicate whether the above described services are available through an existing government contract and if so, identify the contract and provide contact data for the Government point of contact managing that contract. Responses are to be limited to no more than five (5) pages. Company information should include qualifications and experience in work of this nature, point of contact, phone number, fax number, e-mail address, CAGE code, DUNS Number, business size, and small business classification (8[a], HUBZone, etc.), if applicable. Any information submitted in response to this Sources Sought Notice is strictly voluntary. This synopsis is for information planning purposes and the Government will not pay or otherwise reimburse respondents for information submitted. Proprietary information in the responses, if any, must be clearly marked. The Government may use non-Government (contractor) support personnel as subject matter experts in the review of responses received, including the review of any marked or unmarked proprietary information provided. Appropriate non-disclosure agreements have been executed between the third party, non-Government (contractor) support personnel and the Government are on file with the Government. A submission of a response to this Sources Sought constitutes the respondent's acknowledgement and agreement that the information provided in the response, including any marked or unmarked proprietary or source selection information, may be disclosed to these third party, non-Government (contractor) support personnel. The non-Government support contractors are JAB Innovative Solutions (contract specialist support), LLC, TFAB Ground Systems LLC (contract specialist support), Tenica and Associates LLC (contract specialist support), CACI (contract writing system administration), and TASC an Engility Company (advisory and assistance services). Responses shall be submitted no later than 5:00 PM ET, June 1, 2016. Electronic responses are required and shall be submitted to Ricky Edwards, Contract Specialist (support contractor), at ricky.l.edwards1.ctr@mail.mil. All documentation shall become the property of the Government. Unless otherwise stated herein, no additional information is available. Requests for the same will be disregarded. There is no commitment by the Government to issue a solicitation, to make award or awards, or to be responsible for any monies expended by any interested parties in support of any effort in response to this Sources Sought Notice. Information provided herein is subject to change and in no way binds the Government to solicit or award a contract.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Defense Threat Reduction Agency, 8725 John J. Kingman Road, Stop 6201, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, 22060-6201, United States
- Zip Code: 22060-6201
- Zip Code: 22060-6201
- Record
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