Supporting modelling and simulation for VRAPP

Trade Agreement: Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT)
Tendering Procedures: The bidder must supply Canadian goods
and/or services
Attachment: None
Competitive Procurement Strategy: Best Overall  Proposal
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Nature of Requirements: 
TITRE:  SUPPORTING MODELLING AND SIMULATION FOR VRAPP

Background
Weapon systems based on electro-optics (EO) represent dangerous
threats which are proliferating rapidly, and they must be dealt
with by land-based, aerial and marine platforms. These threats
will undoubtedly continue to be a significant concern in the
years to come as more and more such systems are put in service,
both of known design and new generations. The growing
complexity, variability and diversity of EO threats present
significant challenges which designers of countermeasures are
confronting.

Providing a platform with a self-protection system does not
always assure adequate protection against emerging threats, or
even conventional threats. To be effective, a self-protection
system must be activated by a warning system, and it must then
activate an appropriate sequence of countermeasures. Further,
effective employment of a self-protection system depends on the
platform to be protected, the conditions of engagement and the
threat.

As a consequence, the development of countermeasure techniques
and their employment against EO threats demands robust
capabilities, which must include experimental tools to perform
effective analyses, engineering processes to ensure uniform
results, and a process of Verification and Validation (V&V) that
will achieve the level of detail required.

In response to this requirement DRDC Valcartier has initiated a
VRAPP technology demonstration project (TDP) designed to, in
particular, provide a virtual demonstration capability for the
analysis and development of self-protection systems to deal with
known and projected EO threats. This approach includes
integration of existing simulation systems, be they virtual,
real or hybrid, centred around a synthetic environment. 

In order to respond effectively to existing requirements, models
must be created, tested, verified, validated and improved on an
iterative basis if the desired level of reliability is to be
achieved. Since these models must accurately represent complex
systems or phenomena, experimental work is done in advance or in
parallel in order to better characterize the physics of the
situation that is to be reproduced.

In order to achieve the project objectives, this contract will
carry out 8 tasks to be performed by Task Authorisation

Tasks
Task 1: Create digital models
Task 2: Validate and verify digital models or software components
Task 3: Modify and/or add software components
Task 4: Support execution of the software components in a series
of simulations
Task 5: Support analysis of simulations
Task 6: Support the collection of data from real systems
Task 7: Code review, follow on of work and supprort for VRAPP
demonstration project and technical specifications
Task 8: Support demonstrations

Client department
The organization for which the services are to be rendered is
Defence Research and Development Canada - Valcartier (DRDC -
Valcartier).

Period of the contract
The period of the Contract is from date of Contract to March
31st, 2016, inclusive.

Ownership of Intellectual Property
Defence Research and Development Canada - Valcartier has
determined that any intellectual property rights arising from
the performance of the Work under the resulting contract will
belong to Canada.

Contract funding
The resulting contract will be a Task Authorisation contract.
The Maximum Contract Value is $800,000.00 CDN and the Minimum
Contract Value" is 10% of the maximum Contract Value.

Mandatory Technical Criteria
The bidder must propose the number of resources for each of the
following three categories (the same person may be proposed for
more than one resource category).
1.Category: modelling (minimum 3 resources);
2.Category: computer science (minimum 2 resources);

Point Rated Technical Criteria
Training and ezperience: maximum 80 points, minimum 50 points
Bidder's experience: maximum 20 points, minimum 13 points

Security requirements
There is a security requirement associated with this
requirement.  

Other information
All the work is to be carried out on site at Defence Research
and Development Canada - Valcartier, located at 2459 Pie-XI Blvd
North, Quebec City, Quebec.

This procurement is subject to the Controlled Goods Program.

The requirement is subject to the provisions of the Agreement on
Internal Trade (AIT).

The requirement is limited to Canadian goods and/or services.



Delivery Date: Above-mentioned

The Crown retains the right to negotiate with suppliers on any
procurement.

Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada.