Aérosols & lidar

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: 
This bid solicitation cancels and supersedes previous bid
solicitation number W7701-145821/A dated 2014-03-05 with a
closing of 2014-04-14 at 02:00 PM. A debriefing or feedback
session will be provided upon request to
bidders/offerors/suppliers who bid on the previous solicitation.

W7701-145821
Aerosols-lidar

Objectives:
The objectives of the work are to : 
Study the dispersion of manmade clouds and improve theirs
detection 
Study and improve techniques for the standoff determination of
aerosol size and concentration
Study the polarization/depolarization properties of aerosols and
solid targets and develop algorithm for their identification 
Study propagation of laser beam in atmosphere and under water as
a function of atmos-pheric/water physical parameters to
determine the detection probability and identification of targets
Applied different lidar inversion techniques to a large variety
of data
Conduct trials with the DRDC Valcartier lidar systems and
analyse the resulting data
Present the work involved in/findings of the six previous
objectives at meetings and conferences

Tasks:
This task authorisation contract include the following tasks:
1.	Study the dispersion of manmade clouds and improve theirs
detection; 
2.	Study and improve techniques for the standoff determination
of aerosol size and concentration;
3.	Study the polarization/depolarization properties of aerosols
and solid targets and develop algorithm for their
identification; 
4.	Study propagation of laser beam in atmosphere and under water
as a function of atmos-pheric/water physical parameters to
determine the detection probability and identification of
targets;
5.	Applied different lidar inversion techniques to a large
variety of data;
6.	Conduct trials with the DRDC Valcartier lidar systems and
analyse the resulting data;
7.	Present the work involved in/findings of the six previous
objectives at meetings and conferences.
	
Work location:
Some experimental work will be done at DRDC Valcartier (Task 1a,
2a,3a 3b and 6).  The work location will be specified in each
task.  The approximate work duration at DRDC Valcartier is of 2
weeks per year for the duration of the contract.  When done at
RDDC Valcartier all the resource of the Contractor will be
accompanied by RDDC Valcartier personnel at all time.

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 the date of the contract to
March 31, 2018 inclusive

Estimated funding available
Estimated amount of available funding for this contract :
$600,000.00, Applicable Taxes extra.

Intellectual property rights 
Any intellectual property rights arising from the performance of
the Work under the resulting contract will belong to Canada.

Other information :
The requirement is subject to the provisions of the Agreement on
Internal Trade (AIT).  
The requirement is limited to Canadian services.
Bidders must provide a list of names, or other related
information as needed, pursuant to section 01 of Standard
Instructions 2003 and 2004.
For services requirements, Bidders in receipt of a pension or a
lump sum payment must provide the required information as
detailed in article 3 of Part 2 of the bid solicitation.
The compliant proposal with the lowest evaluated price per point
will be recommanded for a contract award.

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