DATA GATHERING FOR METEOROLOGICAL EFFECTS ASSESSMENT APPLICATION

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received during the solicitation period.

TITLE
	
DATA GATHERING FOR A CANADIAN METEOROLOGICAL EFFECTS ASSESSMENT
APPLICATION

REQUIREMENT

Canadian Forces (CF) personnel are required to make assessments
of the effects of meteorological/oceanographic/ice conditions,
hereafter referred to as "Met Effects," on the operation of CF
equipment. Current methods of assessing Met Effects for the CF
rely on a suite of standard NATO criteria and manual or
semi-automated processes. More sophisticated systems exist that
offer improved estimates through automated software applications.

One such system, Navy Integrated Tactical Environmental System,
Variant II Redesign (NITES IIR or N2R), is a sophisticated Met
Effects assessment application with performance degradation
predictions for known capabilities. For each specific piece of
equipment, the N2R application forms an assessment based on
certain aspects of the equipment's operating characteristics and
technical specifications and how they react to varying
meteorological, oceanographic, or ice conditions. These
characteristics and specifications are provided to the
application in the form of descriptive data that are formatted
according to the equipment category. Algorithms of the type 
used by this application  can significantly improve the
equipment performance information available to Canadian
commanders.

One problem with using systems such as N2R is that  in order to
assess Met Effects on CF assets, the associated databases must
be populated with data specific to each piece of equipment to be
assessed. The Contractor is responsible for determining the N2R
data requirements and assessing the availability of this data
for the CF equipment to be assessed by the application. The
Contractor is also responsible for collecting, cataloguing, and
manipulating this data into a format that is usable by N2R.

The purpose of this  work is to determine the data requirements
for assessing meteorological/ oceanographic/ ice effects  on
military equipment using an automated software application. The
Contractor will determine the requirements for the data, provide
an evaluation of the data sources and availability, and will 
begin  data collection and formatting activities. The data is
intended to serve as input to an automated meteorological
effects assessment system.

The Contractor must commence the work upon contract award.  The
Contract is expected to be completed within six (6) months after
contract award.

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

There is a security requirement associated with this
requirement.  

The Contractor/Offeror must, at all times during the performance
of the Contract/Standing Offer, hold a valid Facility Security
Clearance at the level of SECRET, issued by the Canadian
Industrial Security Directorate (CISD), Public Works and
Government Services Canada (PWGSC).

The Contractor/Offeror personnel requiring access to CLASSIFIED
information, assets or sensitive work site(s) must be citizens
of Canada, and must EACH hold a valid personnel security
screening at the level of SECRET, granted or approved by
CISD/PWGSC. Until the security screening of the
Contractor/Offeror personnel required by this	Contract/Standing
Offer has been completed satisfactorily by the Canadian
Industrial Security Directorate, Public Works and Government
Services Canada, the Contractor/Offeror personnel MAY NOT HAVE
ACCESS to CLASSIFIED information or assets, and MAY NOT ENTER
sites where such information or assets are kept, without an
escort.

The Contractor/Offeror MUST NOT remove any CLASSIFIED
information from the identified work site(s), and the
Contractor/Offeror must ensure that its personnel are made aware
of and comply with this restriction. 

Subcontracts which contain security requirements are NOT to be
awarded without the prior written permission of CISD/PWGSC.

The Contractor/Offeror must comply with the provisions of the:

	(a) 	Security Requirements Check List and security guide (if
applicable), attached at Annex C.
	(b) 	Industrial Security Manual (Latest Edition).

For additional information, consult Part 6 - Security, Financial
and Other Requirements, and Part 7 - Resulting Contract Clauses.
 Bidders should consult the "Security Requirements for PWGSC Bid
Solicitations - Instructions for Bidders"
(http://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/app-acq/lc-pl/lc-pl-eng.html#a31)
document on the Departmental Standard Procurement Documents Web
site."

SELECTION METHOD

Lowest Evaluated Price Per Point

1.	To be declared responsive, a bid must:

(a)	comply with all the requirements of the bid solicitation; 

(b)	meet all mandatory technical evaluation criteria; and

(c)	obtain the required minimum points overall for the technical
evaluation criteria which are subject to point rating. 

Bids not meeting (a) or (b) or (c) will be declared
non-responsive.  Neither the responsive bid that receives the
highest number of points nor the one that proposed the lowest
price will necessarily be accepted.  The responsive bid with the
lowest evaluated price per point will be recommended for award
of a contract.  The evaluated price per point will be determined
by dividing the evaluated price of the bid by the number of
points obtained for the point rated technical evaluation
criteria.

In the event that two or more responsive bids have the same
lowest evaluated price per point, the responsive bid which
obtained the highest number of points overall for the point
rated technical evaluation criteria will be recommended for
award of a contract.


MANDATORY TECHNICAL EVALUATION CRITERIA

Mandatory technical evaluation criteria are included in
ATTACHMENT 2 of the bid solicitation.

POINT RATED TECHNICAL EVALUATION CRITERIA

Point rated technical evaluation criteria are included in
ATTACHMENT 3 of the bid solicitation.

CONTRACTING AUTHORITY

Christine Oates
Telephone No. - (819) 956-1332 
Fax No. - (819) 997-2229
E-mail - Christine.Oates@tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca

All enquiries must be submitted in writing to the Contracting
Authority no later than ten (10) calendar days before the bid
closing date.  

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.