REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

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Nature of Requirements: 
To supply, install and support an Earth Observation Access and
Data Management Solution  including, applicable licences, annual
maintenance and support for Natural Resources Canada

XL 23240-120534
McHugh, Russ
Telephone No. - (819) 956-1248 
Fax No. - (819) 953-3703

A Request for Information (RFI) issued by Public Works and
Government Services Canada on behalf of Natural Resources
Canada, is seeking information from Industry regarding the use
of a turnkey COTS system(s)/application(s) as an archival access
and data management solution including software, applicable
licences, annual maintenance and support.
NRCan, through the Canada Centre for remote sensing (CCRS), is
seeking to procure a vendor solution for a COTS archival access
and data management solution and the necessary services for the
implementation, testing, training and required configuration of
the product.  In addition, any proposed vendor is required to
provide on-going maintenance and support for the duration of the
contract period including any option years.

The RFI is intended only to solicit feedback from industry with
respect to the matters described in the RFI.
Background

During the past 40 years, the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
(CCRS) has built the most significant EO data archive in Canada.
 Its current EO data collections amount to over 800 TB ranging
from Landsat MSS, TM and ETM+, ERS-1 and 2 SAR, Envisat ASAR and
MERIS, NOAA, and RADARSAT-1 and 2.  Archives of additional
satellite sensor data and/or products are planned for the
future.  CCRS is responsible for making current and archived EO
data available to the GoC, industry (e.g. MDA) as well as
international clients.

CCRS' long-term global objective for an archive and access
solution is for the broad promotion and extensive use by the
consumer of CCRS' archived EO optical and radar data and data
products.  Furthermore, the aim is to focus on user community
needs by increasing catalogue search-ability and data/product
accessibility, and to keep Canada at the leading edge of
accessing, sharing and using geospatial information via the
Internet by introducing and maintaining state-of-art
infrastructure, and implementing interoperable solutions and
applications for use by major international
collaborators/clients.
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CCRS has been renewing itself by investing in new technologies
as well as by investigating new operational models in order to
better serve GoC and Canadian needs.  The successful completion
of CCRS EO data archive migration to Booth Street in April of
2010 was the first step in the transformation of the CCRS
archive service from a standard mission archiving operation to a
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for access. 
With this renewed ingest and archival storage architecture in
place, CCRS is currently seeking information from industry
regarding the use of a turnkey COTS system(s)/application(s) as
an archival access and data management solution.  This proposed
solution would interface with current infrastructure in order to
meet the overall archive and access solution objectives, and
easily support long term scalability for the addition of future
missions.  The functional requirements for this solution are
described in the proposed statement of work.

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.