USDA Forest Service, Acquisition Management Staff, 630 Sansome Street, Room 536, San Francisco, CA 94111

R -- FIRE AREA SIMULATOR ENHANCEMENTS SOL R5-97-18 DUE 071197 POC Contact, Contracting Officer, Dave Allasia, (415)705-2787 USDA Forest Service intends to negotiate with Systems for Environmental Management, Missoula, MT to design and implement a simulation code to integrate with the control structure of the FARSITE simulator. Simulation factors must include the following capabilities: (1) fuel dependent, horizonal line production rate for hand crews and machinery, (2) production rate modifier for slope, (3) production limits for flame length and (4) burnout operation option for indirect attack. The Fire Area Simulator (FARSITE) software program was jointly developed through an ongoing research effort between the Forest Service and Systems for Environmental Management. Firm(s) that believe they can respond to this need must demonstrate that capability by fully and specifically addressing the following: (1) Familiarity with FARSITE simulator; (2) technical background in fire behavior modeling and extensive experience with field verification of fire behavior outputs; (3) Understanding theroretical basis of current fire behavior models used to predict spread, intensity, spotting, wind field reduction, crowning, as well as methods to predict and verify effects of fire suppression efforts on fire behavior outputs; (4) Field level fire behavior prediction and calibration experience to provide evaluation of whether outputs of suppression simulation are realistic, and make adjustments to code; (5) Ability to integrate suppression and control simulations modeling with fire behavior modeling. See Numbered Note: 22 (0155)

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