SOLICITATION NOTICE
W -- EarthVision Software Maintenance
- Notice Date
- 1/13/2011
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 511210
— Software Publishers
- Contracting Office
- OSM FA Western Region Denver, CO1951 Constitution Ave. N.W.WashingtonDC20240-0001
- ZIP Code
- 20240-0001
- Solicitation Number
- S11PS00013
- Response Due
- 1/24/2011
- Archive Date
- 2/23/2011
- Point of Contact
- Dawn Trudeau
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- Petroleum Suite network License - EarthVisionEarthVision (EV) and predecessors (ISM, IVM, and GSB) have been part of TIPS core software since the beginning. These software were selected because their modeling capabilities for earth materials and conditions encountered in AML and Regulatory activities are superior and easier to use than competitors products. The software has kept pace with IT technology and has withstood the mainframe to workstation to PC migration both hardware and operating systems. The next release, version 8, will include multi-processor 64-bit support and platform-neutral interfaces. EV is routinely used in high-profile, high-dollar SMCRA issues examples: In December 2007, a mine pool relief borehole in the anthracite region collapsed causing a rapid rise in the mine pool to the extent that an apartment complex, several residences, and roads were being damaged. Using EarthVision, in one days time OSM workers were able to plot several optimized locations for emergency drillholes to relieve the rising mine pool. By March 2008, two new relief boreholes had been installed and the flooding eliminated. EarthVision was essential in the successful isolation and control of the Dolph fire OSMs biggest ($12,000,000) AML project in its history. The unique capabilities of EarthVision to model in true 3 and 4 dimensions (X, Y, Z, property, and time) made it the only choice for this effort. EV models of the structure, rock layers, and subsurface temperatures over 3 years until project completion in Spring 2008- were vital to all phases of the Project: design, construction monitoring, crisis modifications, and to design and earthmoving requirements. EarthVision is still being used to provide independent verification of cut-and-fill volumes that are the basis for contractor payment and most recently, volumes of coal removed from 4 differently-owned tracts within the Project Area. None of the other TIPS software has these capabilities. In February 2008, a closed and flooded post-law bituminous mine in southern West Virginia blewout damaging a home and flooding a major State highway. EarthVision played a pivotal role in explaining the subsurface hydrogeologic conditions and the mechanism leading to the blowout. Based on the findings of the model and investigation, in July 2008, the States Oil and Gas and SMCRA Agencies modified their Programs to greatly reduce similar occurrences through improved cooperation and permit interaction. In the first half of 2010, EV was THE tool used In the Appalachian Region to create over one hundred cross-sections and plan views of minesites selected for the National Oversight Objective of Approximate Original Contour. The sections and maps were accurate and easy for technical and non-technical people to understand. Standardization of symbology was trivial and insured consistency throughout the Regions AOC evaluations; reformatting and blending EV outputs with CAD and document formats yielded the highest quality products. No other software packages with the same capabilities at lower cost have yet been identified by OSM experts.: ●There are a number of very low cost 3D visualizing programs but they all are severely limited by difficult data exchange, crude and inaccurate modeling math, and extremely small data sets. Some are completely dependent on other software packages (some used by TIPS) to host their modeling environments. The host software is limiting and models are further made inaccurate.●The known mid-price software is highly-capable with data exchange and format and file sizes, 3D visualization is very good however, the modeling math is inaccurate and has lots of constraints imposed to prevent runaway system resources and model values at the edges of the modeling space. None of the known and marginally acceptable midrange packages have ever been tested for compatibility with the rest of the TIPS software suite. Full testing would require purchasing complete packages, solely for testing, at costs (per license) comparable to EV maintenance; compatibility with existing EV models and data is unknown and definitely NOT assured.●There are only 2 or 3 fully comparable software packages known. None have been tested because all of them cost 2 to 5 times more than EV. Compatibility with existing EV models and data is unknown and definitely NOT assured.●There are non-Windows software packages with potential but OSM can only use Windows. For these reasons, we find that Dynamic Graphics, Inc. EarthVision is the only affordable software that can meet the technical and compatibility needs for modeling and visualizing complex geological and hydrological situations encountered in AML and Regulatory under SMCRA's governance and commitments to State and Tribal partners.
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