MISSION TO TASK ANALYSIS

Trade Agreement: Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT)
Tendering Procedures: All interested suppliers may submit a bid
Attachment: None
Non-Competitive Procurement Strategy: Exclusive Rights
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Vendor Name and Address: 
KaDSci, LLC
7225 Whitson Drive
Springfield Virginia
United States
22153
Nature of Requirements: 

Advance Contract Award Notice

PWGSC File Number: W7714-135829
Contracting Officer: Celeste Clermont
Telephone Number: 819 956-1401
Fax Number: 819 997-2229
Email Address: celeste.clermont@tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca

An ACAN is a public notice indicating to the supplier community
that a department or agency intends to award a contract for
goods, services or construction to a pre-identified supplier,
thereby allowing other suppliers to signal their interest in
bidding, by submitting a statement of capabilities. If no
supplier submits a statement of capabilities that meets the
requirements set out in the ACAN, on or before the closing date
stated in the ACAN, the contracting officer may then proceed
with the award to the pre-identified supplier.

Requirement

The Department of Defence Research & Development Canada (DRDC)
has a requirement to provide services for a valued-focused
mission to task analysis. The work will involve the following: 

Examine the utility of scenarios and mission-to-tasks analysis
in supporting an effective holistic risk management framework
for municipalities. To evaluate the utility the work will
involve one small and one large municipality.  The specific
municipalities were chosen in consultation with EMBC and are
Parksville and Nanaimo.


The requirement will exploit existing work on risk assessments,
scenario development and the identification of community
objectives for the British Columbia municipalities of Parksville
and Nanaimo by developing a framework for assessing the scenario
objectives, identifying key tasks to achieve the scenario
objectives and synthesizing the results across all scenarios to
provide an aggregate view of the key tasks.

Task 1: Develop a scenario objectives measurement framework
Task 2: Identification of mission tasks
Task 3: Synthesis of objectives and tasks across scenarios
Task 4: Evaluation of the utility of a scenario-based
mission-to-tasks analysis

Background

The Centre for Security Science (CSS) of Defence Research &
Development Canada (DRDC) has a collaborative project with
Emergency Management British Columbia (EMBC) Integrated Public
Safety (IPS) to demonstrate the value of a science and
technology (S&T) structured approach for improving emergency
management capabilities. This type of structured S&T approach is
usually referred to as operational research (OR), which is the
application of scientific techniques to support decision making
and planning.

The objective of EMBC-DRDC collaborative project is to evaluate
options at the municipal and regional levels as applied to their
risk assessment and critical infrastructure (CI) programs. 
There is a strong interdependency between the two programs as
one must understand risk to understand risk to critical
infrastructure but on the other hand one must understand
critical infrastructure vulnerabilities to fully understand
risk.  This interdependency is reflected in the
multi-stakeholder nature of an effective risk management
framework for treating priority risks.

Minimum Essential Requirements

Any interested supplier must demonstrate by way of statement of
capabilities that it meets the following requirements:

1)	The Contractor must have a minimum of five (5) years of
experience within the last ten (10) years conducting decision
support analyses related to complex operational level issues
involving human safety and security.  

	Complex issues are those that affect multiple stakeholder
groups responsible for human safety and security.  These would
include law enforcement, security, health, emergency management
and humanitarian aid agencies.  

	Operational level issues are those that are comprehensive for
an entire community or region.  An example would be decision
support analyses conducted in support of the commander of a
major relief operation.

2)	The Contractor must have demonstrated proficiency in the
following analytical approaches and methods:

Applying Value-Focused Thinking to identify fundamental and
means objectives
Bayesian Networks
Influence Diagrams
A proven method for incorporating metrics into a Value-Focused
Thinking approach
A proven method for integrating Value-Focused Thinking  and
metrics into Bayesian Networks
Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis/Multi-Attribute Utility Theory

Applicability of the trade agreement(s) to the procurement

This procurement is subject to the following trade agreement: 

Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT)

Justification for the Pre-Selected Supplier

KadSci is the only known vendor who has a demonstrated
methodology and strategic perspective along with scientific and
mathematical expertise to model complex operations with metrics
as required for this project.

They have over 40 years of experience designing evaluation
approaches and conducting actual evaluations of complex
operations. They have developed a unique approach to
representing and evaluating complex operations called Value
Focused Metrics (VFM).  The method extends the state of the art
in strategic, scenario mission to task modeling beyond the
dendritic, hierarchical modeling tools and techniques that are
currently available in the market today.  More importantly, The
VFM technique connects critical measures to both outcome and
output measures of effectiveness.  Furthermore, their technique
supports the explicit integration of uncertainty  into the
assessment model providing decision-makers with deeper insight
into situational risks and the ability to explore how those
risks might be most cost effectively mitigated.  

Government Contracts Regulations Exception

The following exception to the Government Contracts Regulations
is invoked for this procurement under subsection 6(d) - "only
one person is capable of performing the work".

Ownership of Intellectual Property

Canada intends to retain ownership of any Foreground
Intellectual Property arising out of the proposed contract on
the basis that the main purpose of the contract is to generate
knowledge and information for public dissemination

The period of the proposed contract

The proposed contract is for a period of one year from  date of
contract award.

A cost estimate of the proposed contract`

The estimated value of the contract is $ 169,500.00 (GST/HST
included).

Name and address of the pre-identified supplier

KadSci, LLC
7225 Whitson Dr.
Springfield, Virginia 22153
USA



Suppliers' right to submit a statement of capabilities

Suppliers who consider themselves fully qualified and available
to provide the services described in the ACAN, may submit a
statement of capabilities in writing to the contact person
identified in this notice on or before the closing date of this
notice. The statement of capabilities must clearly demonstrate
how the supplier meets the advertised requirements.

Inquiries and Submission of Statement of Capabilities

The closing date for accepting statements of capabilities in
April 2, 2013, 2:00 p.m. EDT.

Inquiries and statements of capabilities are to be directed to:

Celeste Clermont
Defence Sciences Division
Acquisitions  Branch
11C1, Phase III - Place du Portage
11, rue Laurier, Gatineau QC K1A 0S5 

Telephone:  819-956-1401
Facsimile:  819-997-2229
Email: celeste.clermont@tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca





Delivery Date: Above-mentioned

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how the supplier meets the advertised requirements.

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