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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF JULY 9,1997 PSA#1883

National Imagery and Mapping Agency, PCO-E/MS D-5, 4600 Sangamore Road, Bethesda, MD 20816-5003

99 -- SATELLITE IMAGERY ACQUISITION POC Kenneth D. Popkin, Contracting Officer (301)227-1904/FAX (301)227-4793 REQUEST FOR INFORMATION, COMMERCIAL IMAGERY ACQUISITION. THE PURPOSE of this Request for Information (RFI) is to conduct market research to determine the most efficient and cost effective commercial processes to task, evaluate, store, and disseminate commercial imagery for geospatial and intelligence purposes by NIMA and the US Department of Defense. STATEMENT OF PROBLEM: Several next generation commercial, civil and foreign remote sensing systems will be launched in the next few years. These new systems with higher spatial resolutions, improved accuracies and spectral capabilities will be an increasingly important imagery source within geospatial and imagery intelligence production environments. To take advantage of these new capabilities in order to satisfy a growing and diverse set of customer requirements, NIMA is seeking innovative and open systems technology in the marketplace to reduce cost and avoid developing custom system solutions. NIMA is seeking marketplace opportunities to achieve better efficiencies in four categories: imagery tasking, imagery evaluation, storage and dissemination to support US DoD geospatial and intelligence community production. NIMA is looking for creative, cost effective approaches to streamline these processes, not only for internal production but for outsourced production as well. In general, NIMA seeks a common interface for tasking procedures, an evaluation process that reviews commercial imagery for weather and accuracies constraints, a storage capability that can be responsive to queries and a dissemination capability that can transmit imagery rapidly if warranted. These capabilities, under certain circumstances, need to be available virtually 24 hours a day and able to process imagery relatively quickly. In addition, NIMA is interested in receiving concepts of operations pertaining to geospatial production. NIMA would also welcome information on how licensing structures would be affected by proposals pertaining to the four categories. Interested parties -- entities that have or are making substantial investments in commercial satellite imagery acquisition or related activities -- are encouraged to submit information regarding a high level concept of operations that will yield the required ideas and proposals of how commercial solutions can be used by NIMA and other DoD components to meet customer needs. This concept of operations should identify COTS processes, the hardware and software planned, and cost estimates. We would also be interested in plausible options that were considered but not selected. Additional requested information is company background and any record of demonstrated capabilities that would substantiate success of proposed concepts. Interested parties may respond to all or any one of the four categories. Only written responses to this RFI will be accepted, however, a briefing presentation may accompany the written response. No verbal or FAXed responses will be accepted. Responses are due no later than 2 P.M. EST, thirty (30) days after publication in the Commerce Business Daily. NIMA plans to hold an unclassified discussion meeting on 17 July 1997 in Merrifield, Virginia from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. to clarify questions/concerns regarding this RFI. NIMA will distribute a NIMA Commercial Satellite Imagery Concept of Operations, which is a work in progress, at that time or prior to the meeting upon request. Parties interested in attending the meeting or receiving the NIMA Concept of Operations prior to it, should notify Ken Popkin at least three days prior to the meeting. Interested parties should address the NIMA Concept of Operations and also offer viable alternative approaches as appropriate. FAR STATEMENT (DISCLAIMER): The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this RFI or to otherwise reimburse for the information solicited except as provided in FAR 31.205-18. (0188)

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