Hydrologic Engineering Software Development

Project: Hydrologic Engineering Software Development for the Hydrologic Engineering Center (CEIWR-HEC), Davis, California, Single Award Task Order Contract Summary: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District (CESPK) will be soliciting proposals for a 100% small business set-aside for Hydrologic Engineering Software Development services under proposed solicitation W91238-14-Q-0003. In order to accomplish this mission, CESPK proposes to award a Firm Fixed Price (FFP) commercial services' single award task order contract (SATOC) under FAR Part 12 and FAR Part 15, with a possible ordering period of five (5) years. This is NOT a Request for Proposal (RFP). It is anticipated that an RFP will be issued approximately 5 days after the release of this announcement. Under this proposed commercial services acquisition the contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, material, tools, supervision, quality control, and other items necessary to provide software engineering services to support on-going software development projects for the Hydrologic Engineering Center (HEC). Typical services will include: a) enhancing the Corps Water Management System (CWMS) and Real-Time Simulation program (HEC-RTS); b) enhancements of the time series data management system HEC-DSS and HEC-DSSVue; c) development and enhancements of the next generation hydrologic engineering computer program family, including: 1) Hydrologic Modeling System (HEC-HMS), 2) River Analysis System (HEC-RAS), 3) Flood Damage Reduction Analysis Package (HEC-FDA), 4) Reservoir System Simulation (HEC-ResSim), 5) Watershed Analysis Tool (HEC-WAT) and the Flood Risk Analysis Extension (FRA), 6) Flood Impact Analysis (HEC-FIA), 7) Prescriptive Reservoir Model (HEC-PRM), 8) Ecosystem Functions Model (HEC-EFM) and its associated software, 9) Statistical Software Package (HEC-SSP), 10) Regime Prescription Tool (HEC-RPT), and d) miscellaneous improvements to other software packages. The majority of coding on these projects is done in the Java programming language, but portions also include Fortran, C/C++ and Visual Basic .net. The contractor will provide task specific assistance in applied research, engineering analysis, program design, software development, testing, documentation, and training. Software will be developed using a variety of productivity tools that enable fielding the products in a multi-platform Corps field office environment. The software is targeted for multi-user applications in a network environment employing state-of-the-art use of Graphical User Interface (GUI), graphic display, database, visualization, map and animation technology, using object-oriented programming concepts. Under this IDIQ, the IDIQ Holder/Contractor will undertake specific tasks associated with hydrologic engineering software design and prototyping, software coding, testing, documentation, training, applications, and deployment for HEC software development projects. The water resource engineering concepts and abilities required to successfully accomplish example tasks include the following. 1. Hydrologic Engineering : Rainfall/runoff transforms, parameterization, spatially gridded analysis, used of radar rainfall data, snowmelt processes and modeling. 2. River Hydraulic Engineering: One dimensional and two dimensional river hydraulic process and modeling, sediment transport analysis. 3. Groundwater hydrology: Multi-dimensional groundwater hydrology and hydraulics, groundwater plume analysis, groundwater/surface water interactions. 4. Water Resources Statistical analysis: Frequency, duration, risk analysis in water resource applications. 5. Water Resource Economic analysis: Cost/benefit analysis, potential damage analysis. 6. GIS: Use of Arc GIS products in water resource engineering Software development concepts, development environment, and productivity tools required to successfully accomplish example tasks above include the following: 1. Hardware platforms/operating systems/standards: Intel-based personal computers with Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Linux, and Sun hardware running SUN Solaris. 2. Coding languages: Java, C and C++, Fortran, Visual Basic .net, Script (several languages including Python and Jython), and SQL. 3. Productivity software: Microsoft Development Studio, including Intel FORTRAN Compiler; Java IDE's, and various graphics libraries; or equivalent development productivity software. All HEC source code must be maintained in a version-control database accessible to both the contractor and HEC staff. 4. Object-oriented Design. 5. Oracle Database table design This solicitation will be issued in electronic format only. Paper copies of this solicitation will not be available. Other methods of requesting a package will not be honored. Offerors must register in the System for Award Management (SAM)) at www.sam.gov prior to submission of proposals. The solicitation will be posted to FedBizOpps at www.fedbizopps.gov, and will be available to prospective offerors without charge. Firms can search for the solicitation by solicitation number, W91238-14-Q-0003. Offerors can register on the FedBizOpps site for the vendor collaboration tool so that possible partnerships and subcontracting opportunities can be identified. It is the offeror's responsibility to check the Internet address provided as necessary for any posted changes to this solicitation and all amendments. The Government reserves the right to reject any and all offers. Award will be made to an Offeror whose relevant experience, price proposal, and past performance offers the best value to the Government. Proposals shall include sufficient detailed information to allow complete evaluation.