SOURCES SOUGHT
T -- Aerial Imagery - RFI-USDA-APFO-0007
- Notice Date
- 6/16/2016
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541922
— Commercial Photography
- Contracting Office
- Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency, Aerial Photography Field Office, 2222 West 2300 South, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84119-2020
- ZIP Code
- 84119-2020
- Solicitation Number
- RFI-USDA-APFO-0007
- Point of Contact
- Michelle C. Clifford, Phone: 8018442909, Jacque LaCroix, Phone: 801-975-3500 x 277
- E-Mail Address
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michelle.clifford@slc.usda.gov, jacque.lacroix@slc.usda.gov
(michelle.clifford@slc.usda.gov, jacque.lacroix@slc.usda.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- GPAT Appendix Request for Information (RFI) in PDF format REQUEST FOR INFORMATION This Request for Information (RFI) is being issued solely for information and planning purposes and does not constitute an Invitation for Bids (IFB), a Request for Proposals (RFP), a Request for Quotations (RFQ) or an indication that the Government will contract for any of the items and/or services contained in this notice. In accordance with FAR 52.215-3, Request for Information or Solicitation for Planning Purposes, the Government will not pay for any information/items submitted in response to the RFI. No determination as to the viability of this potential requirement has been made at this point and there is currently no solicitation for this effort. Information identified as proprietary will not be released. Only summaries of data provided under this RFI are releasable to the public. Introduction Imagery is one of several critical geospatial datasets the USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) uses to complete its mission. Imagery has been collected and used by the Agency for the last 78+ years. Imagery is used millions of times daily by FSA in desktop, web based, and enterprise applications to support FSA's primary customers, America's farmers and ranchers. The FSA Aerial Photography Field Office (APFO) has the authority as delegated by the Secretary of Agriculture to the Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services to coordinate and prevent duplication of aerial photographic work of the Department, and among other activities, to coordinate and perform procurement, inspection, and application of specifications for USDA aerial photography, and make reproductions of the photography available upon request. 7 CFR Part 2, Subpart C, §2.16, and 7 CFR 2.42. While the general FSA mission has remained constant, major business and technological changes have impacted imagery requirements as well as requirements related to imagery delivery mechanisms. Basic Statement of Program Scope 2016 is the last year of the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) 5 year IDIQ. A project has been initiated to define how 2017 and out year FSA imagery acquisition and delivery will be positioned to best meet the FSA business need. The core FSA business requirement for imagery is: To obtain and deliver imagery content that meets user requirements, via secure web services consumed by various desktop and web based applications, to end customers in support of FSA Programs. There are many user requirements for imagery acquisition and delivery. The most critical requirements are for high spatial resolution, high horizontal accuracy, a known acquisition date, high level of image quality, annual or better refresh cycle, fast acquisition to delivery timeframe, large seamless geographic coverage/extent, fast screen refresh, discrete flying seasons, leaf on versus leaf off acquisition, and consistency of imagery content.   Instructions Please answer the following questions, limiting responses to 3 pages per question. Mark each page that has corporate sensitive or proprietary information. If your organization has no input on a particular question, please insert "no response provided" for that question. Not answering any particular question will have no negative impact on competing for future work for the government. All responses should be positioned to help FSA make determinations about future actions to meet Agency business and user requirements generally described above. Digital responses should be in PDF format, with the exception of image samples, which may be in any format the responder chooses, but shall not exceed 1GB in file size. Emailed responses shall not exceed 25MB in total size. Responses may be emailed to michelle.clifford@slc.usda.gov no later than July 15, 2016 or mailed to: Michelle Clifford USDA-FSA-Aerial Photography Field Office Contracting Office 2222 W 2300 South Salt Lake City, UT 84119   Questions 1. Licensing: If you license your data or services, please describe your licensing structure, to include description of how it is licensed, if there is a license sunset clause on older imagery, if both data and web services delivery of data are licensed, any flexibility in licensing (e.g. to individual users, user groups such as Agencies, Departments, full public availability, availability with intent to resell or redistribute, etc.). For example, would farmers, ranchers or other FSA customers enrolled in FSA programs be considered a single user/user group? Could an Agency distribute imagery to their customers, via hard copy, web service, digital media, or by other means? Do data or services need to be watermarked? Expand as needed to help the Government understand the scope of your licensing. Please describe whether licensing applies only to source data, or if it applies to printed copies, reduced resolution copies (e.g. downloads from a web service), digital extracts of data from a service, and so forth. Be as descriptive as possible and note where flexibility in licensing may exist. Also describe licensing pricing structure. 2. Security: Please describe in detail the security measures, federal laws, FAR clauses, FEDRAMP, or other federal policies your organization meets, and local protocols, technical protocols, and so forth, with regards to building and hosting secure yet reliable and accessible web services. Describe how you provide or restrict access to web services based on domain, username/password provisions, or other mechanisms. Also describe physical security measures you have in place at your hosting facility or facilities. Describe how you physically secure your data with respect to disaster recovery, downtime, redundancy, and so forth. 3. Web Services Content: Describe in detail the types and content of web services and applications your organization hosts. The government is interested in overall content, spatial resolution, projection, spectral resolution, temporal resolution and historical data, how often services are updated, level of uptime your organization meets as determined by independent 3rd parties, if the services are query-able (are attributes or pixel values accessible), cached or un-cached, formats, OGC compliance, software used to build and deploy, metadata available, and any other aspect of the services construction or content. The government is also interested in understanding what types of applications or value added products may be available, such as but not limited to data transfer or download applications, change detection layers, land use layers, NVDI, NWDI, and so forth. 4. Imagery Inspection: Does your organization provide an imagery inspection application via software or web application? Is it customizable based on customer specifications? 5. Section 508 Compliance: Please describe where you meet or fall short of Section 508 compliance provisions with respect to potential products in response to this RFI. If you have a current VPAT on file, please provide. Also please complete the GPAT template located in the Appendix by responding to the elements marked "applicable". 6. Spatial Resolution: Describe the spatial resolution of imagery data your organization typically acquires or works with and project or describe technical or commercial trends your organization sees with regards to spatial resolution. Discuss spatial resolution in terms of acquisition and delivery mechanisms, geographic coverage and acquisition and/or production capacity, file size and format, price, and image revisit or refresh cycles. 7. Imagery Acquisition Platforms: Describe how your organization perceives the current and future roles or niches that satellite, small satellites, UAS/sUAS, and manned aerial platforms play for high or very high spatial resolution acquisitions over large geographic areas (e.g. areas the size of multiple large states). Also describe any laws/regulations, technical hurdles, or other challenges industry currently faces in full robust deployment of any of these platforms in general. 8. Non-CONUS Imagery: Describe product lines available in non-CONUS areas in terms of comparative pricing versus CONUS areas, and with respect to platforms, coverage, temporal resolution, spatial resolution, and risk. 9. Innovation: Describe where your organization feels industry capability and technology is heading with regards to temporal resolution/4d, elevation products, point clouds (derived from both imagery and LiDAR), LiDAR, Stereo/3d, IfSAR, multi/hyper spectral data, combined or joint single pass elevation and imagery acquisitions, sensor technology, full motion video, live streaming data, and value added product lines in general. 10. Image Samples: Please provide samples with minimal metadata indicating information such as spatial resolution, projection, acquisition date, and so forth. 11. Business Size and Socioeconomic Status: Indicate business size and socioeconomic status of your company and that, if known, of primary subcontracts typically involved in providing the products and services you provide related to this RFI. The list does not need to be comprehensive. 12. Existing Contracts and Terms: Include existing Federal contracts or purchase agreements known or held that are open for use by other agencies, and include industry terms, such as warranty, performance standards, quality, inspection methods, etc. Clarifications or questions regarding this RFI of a technical nature should be directed to Brian Vanderbilt, brian.vanderbilt@slc.usda.gov or 801-214-4651.
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