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D -- POLLUTION AND INCIDENT SIMULATION, CONTROL, AND EVALUATION SYSTEM (PISCES) SOL DTCG39-95-R-E00496 DUE 031396 POC Contact David Ziemba, Contracting Officer, 203-444-8242, FAX 203-444-8299 The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) is interested in procuring a prototype simulation tool to assist the National Strike Force Coordination Center (NSFCC) in preparing, conducting, and evaluating major pollution response exercises. Principle users of the tool will be NSFCC exercise design, control, and evaluation personnel, not exercise participants/players. The USCG R&D Center, with technical assistance from the Naval Air Warfare Center-Training Systems Division, has developed a procurement specification for this system, which is being called the Pollution Incident Simulation, Control, and Evaluation System (PISCES). The USCG plans to acquire PISCES via a competitive procurement. A Firm-Fixed Price contract is envisioned. A copy of the Request For Proposals (RFP) package, which contains the PISCES specification, will be provided to qualified offerors, who successfully demonstrates an existing oil spill management simulation exercise capability, which can serve as the foundation for PISCES . Offerors will be qualified based on a USCG evaluation of their system's present capability to support the following exercise preparation, conduct, and evaluation operations: (a) LOADING NEW GAMING AREA This operation shall load scaled, commercially available, NOAA electronic charts, and an alternative coastal outline display, which cover one local USCG Response Area selected by the offeror. (b) LOADING NEW GAMING AREA RESPONSE RESOURCES This operation shall load at least thirty different response resources within the selected gaming area. The data loaded for each response resource shall include resource name/ID, type, amount/capacity, owner, initial location, and assigned display icon. (c) DESIGNING AND ARCHIVING A SCENARIO This operation shall use a marine response industry recognized, fast-time, computer-based spill trajectory model to test alternative spill parameters, locations, and weather, in order to design a scenario which meets exercise objectives. (d) ACTIVATING AND CONTROLLING RESOURCES DURING AN EXERCISE. This operation shall activate, within the computer simulation, at least four different types of response resources. The computer simulation shall automatically monitor and display response resources status as each resource transits and conducts its assigned operation. Alerts shall be used to indicate resource attainment of a particular location or status. This operation shall permit manual operator over-ride control of response resources during the exercise. (e) RETRIEVING AND ANNOTATING THE KEY INPUT EVENT FILE DURING AN EXERCISE. This operation shall retrieve and annotate the exercise script file, and automatically activate, within the simulation, changes to scenario parameters or response resource status, based upon the attainment of an established time or status. (f) COLLECTING EVALUATION DATA DURING AN EXERCISE This operation shall collect operationally relevant, exercise variable data, along with evaluator observations, into storage for subsequent use during the post-exercise debriefing session. (g) PREPARING, ARCHIVING, RETRIEVING, AND CONDUCTING A POST-EXERCISE DEBRIEFING SESSION. This operation shall use collected evaluation data to critique response team performance, during the post-exercise debriefing session. Each offeror will be evaluated, based on (a) the effectiveness and efficiency of each operation demonstrated as a present capability and (b) the magnitude of modifications required to meet PISCES requirements. The results of this evaluation will be used, not only to qualify the prospective offeror to receive the RFP package, but they will also be used as one factor upon which this ''best value'' contract will be awarded. These demonstrations shall occur at the U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center in Groton, CT during the week of 3/25/96 through 3/29/96. The USCG will provide standard 115 VAC, 20 AMP power service. Demonstrations shall be conducted on a portable, offeror-provided system, at no expense to the USCG. This offeror's system shall include, as a minimum, an operator station and classroom-sized, large screen display. The operator station software shall run in a Microsoft Windows NT environment. The duration of each demonstration shall not exceed four hours. Within this time period, each offeror will be allocated thirty minutes for system set-up. One hour and thirty minutes will be allocated to a training presentation by the offeror on conducting the operations indicated above. Up to one hour and forty-five minutes will then be allocated for the USCG to conduct these operations for evaluation purposes without the assistance or presence of any offeror personnel. At the end of this period, each offeror will be allocated fifteen minutes to breakdown and remove his equipment from the evaluation space. Interested offerors may request the opportunity to provide a demonstration by sending a written request to the USCG Contracting Officer, along with the following information: (a) Corporate Capability Brochures of prime and all first tier team members and (b) Product Description Brochure of the offeror's existing oil spill management simulation system, proposed as the foundation for PISCES. Offerors also are encouraged to provide Letters of Recommendations from (a) established maritime training organizations, who have procured the offeror's existing oil spill management simulation product, and (b) customers, who can attest to the prospective prime contractor's capabilities to successfully develop and deliver computer-based technology systems, which have contract values of greater than $300K. Requests for an opportunity to participate in the qualifying demonstrations will be granted based on a USCG evaluation of the information presented by each prospective offeror. Requests must be received prior to 13 March 1996 be considered. Requests and questions should be directed to: Mr. David Ziemba at (860) 444-8242. This acquisition is being conducted under a specific acquisition delegation of GSA's exclusive procurement authority for FIP resources. The specific DPA case number is USCG DPA #96-004. (0059)

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