MAIDETS Application Revision and Update

NOTICE OF INTENT TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Office of Mine Safety and Health Researh (OMSHR), hereby announces its intent to issue a purchase order to PENTAD Systems for MAIDETS Application Revision and Update.. Purpose and Objective: The mission of NIOSH's Office of Mine Safety and Health Research is to eliminate mining fatalities, injuries, and illnesses through research and prevention. The program, which began in 1910 under the U.S. Bureau of Mines, has contributed significantly to safety and health improvements in the mining industry. Mine safety research engineering needs and targeting is dependent on mine accident, injury and illness surveillance data. It is important to have current, relevant data. Fast and systematic procedures to accurately process, analyze, and distribute these data are vital. MAIIDETS is an intranet application (http://maiidetsdev.cdc.gov/) that uses an array of application programming interfaces (API's) and internally developed application tools to process the Mine Safety and Health Administration's (MSHA) data from the agency's "Address and Employment", "Accident , Injury, and Illness", and "Area and Personal Samples" data files available from MSHA at http://www.msha.gov/STATS/PART50/p50y2k/p50y2k.HTM. or on an individual mine basis from their "Mine Data Retrieval System" (http://www.msha.gov/drs/drshome.htm). Though the MAIIDETS application hosts direct access to mine and accident data summary tables and charts, it is most useful to researchers for its interactive capabilities. MAIIDETS offers users the ability to build custom datasets and provides tools to examine, analyze, map, and report results from these datasets. The application was designed to make MSHA data more transparent and easily accessible to both frequent and occasional users. Though MAIIDETS is supplementary to other in-house analysis tools, the application's goal is to offer interactive tools that provide standardized methods that produce consistent results across a wide range of user skills. MAIIDETS also could serve as a host for future data sharing/integration opportunities for noise, demographic, and mine equipment data. Top third party applications were integrated into the application to enhance and expand output capabilities. This statement of work for the revision and update of MAIIDETS delineates the tasks needed to make the application operational on CDC servers in Atlanta. The tasks delineate the work necessary to make MAIIDETS fully functional, utilizing "state of the art" code. MAIIDETS will also need to be loaded with MSHA Mine Address and Employment, and Accident, Injury, and Illness data from 1983 through 2010. The Contractor shall perform the following tasks. Task 1: Deploy and Host MAIIDETS on a Fully Functional Development Server The MAIIDETS application is currently housed on a server in Atlanta. The contractor shall install and configure MAIIDETS on their own server at their own place of business for testing and development. Task 2: Rewrite .NET and SQL Server Code The MAIIDETS application is currently written in ASP.NET version 2.0 and SQL Server 2000. The contractor will update MAIIDETS code to .NET 3.5 ( or .NET 4.0 if it is available when coding begins) and SQL Server 2008. Updating will substantially increase MAIIDETS capabilities and efficiencies. Task 3: Install New Third Party Software OMSHR staff will request from Atlanta ITSO the creation of a consolidated environment for the MAIIDETS ASP.NET application and its database. After Certification and Accreditation of Third Party software and the MAIIDETS application with its database, the contractor will be responsible for installation of newer MAIIDETS upgraded Third Party software on host servers in Atlanta. This will require the contractor to work remotely with ITSO personnel in Atlanta for direct access to the application for updating and modification. The contractor will be responsible to ensure that the most recent versions of Third Party software are installed properly on the correct servers and that their functionality within the MAIIDETS application is fully restored. Purchase and acquisition of the upgraded versions of this software (the 508 Compliant Corda Technologies, server graphing PopCharts / Optimap and Autodesk MapGuide Server software) will be the responsibility of NIOSH OMSHR. Task 4: Load Current and Historic MSHA Data The contractor shall load SPSS, SAS, or dBase MSHA data files into MAIIDETS. The MSHA data files will be provided by OMSHR. These data will be processed MSHA year-end close-out files covering the time period from 1983 through 2010. Task 5: Correct Coding Errors The contractor will work with the NIOSH OMSHR surveillance personnel to identify and restore original functionality that once worked but is now reported as an "error". This may be due to programming changes made elsewhere in the application or incompatibility due to system environmental changes that occurred during the application's move from the Spokane server environment to the Atlanta environment. For example, the incidence rate calculator wizard no longer results in a numerical rate output. Task 6: Install Login Security to Enable Restrict-by-Account MAIIDETS currently has no system limits. The contractor will write into the application a tool that will manage user access rights. The revised system will have a security management system enabling new accounts to be granted "GUEST" privileges as default. A MAIIDETS system administrator will need to have the capability to grant access rights beyond "Guest." Task 7: Reformat Fonts and Style to Conform to NIOSH/CDC Standards The contractor will update the MAIIDETS format style so that it is consistent with fonts and formats of existing OMSHR/NIOSH/CDC web sites. Task 8: Create Working Models for Updating Procedures The contractor will create an update utility to allow OMSHR personnel to add future year's MSHA "close-out" data to the system. This will enable designated personnel with the proper administrative access rights to run stored automated procedures that will update the MAIIDETS Production Server with annual MSHA Address and Employment, Accident Injury and Illness, and Sampling data. Task 9: Create a "Glossary of Terms" and "User Help Guide" The contractor will create a "Glossary of Terms" database widget that can be accessible from anywhere in the MAIIDETS application to look-up definitions of mining terms. The contractor will also create an on-line help manual which will be accessible from anywhere in the system. Task 10: Prepare Final Project Report The contractor will prepare a final report which presents a summary of the work done to update and make functional the MAIIDETS application. This report should also include recommendations for improving the speed, efficiency, and ease of use of MAIIDETS. Special Notes: ? The contractor will document and provide to OMSHR all source code modification of old code and the new code written to update the MAIIDETS application. ? OMSHR will take ownership of all source code and any Third Party tool licenses used in MAIIDETS, other than Microsoft Visual Studio. ? To the maximum extent possible, 508 compliance must be addressed in the reporting, charting, and mapping products of the application. ? The contractor will be required to submit to OMSHR interim installs of builds during development for OMSHR testing and assistance with the certification and accreditation (C&A) process. No other vendor has the knowledge of or the experience working with the MAIIDETS application as PENTAD Systems. PENTAD worked to transfer the MAIIDETS system to the CDC Atlanta server, and helped the Atlanta personnel configure and launch the system. Pentad Systems also has a working prototype on their own Developmental server and used this to optimize the configuration for Atlanta. The personnel at PENTAD Systems have extensive and expert experience with Accident and Injury data such as management of the safety program at the large Kaiser Aluminum TrentwoodPlant in Spokane Valley, WA. The company has a unique interest and understanding of accident and injury data and incidence rates, use and precautions as well as a sense of reporting format needs from the work done at Kaiser.. The company is familiar with MAIIDETs program language as well as the application itself. PENTAD is sole positioned to commit work on MAIIDETS quickly, efficiently, and cost effectively. Responsible sources that believe they possess the expertise and capabilities identified above are encouraged to submit to the Contracting Officer within 15 days from the posting date of this notice, their written item description/item characteristics and pricing information in the format they choose, not to exceed 10 pages. Please forward the item description and pricing information to Margaret L. Mooney, CDC NIOSH, 626 Cochrans Mill Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15236, Reference 2011-Q-13640. All vendors must be registered in the Central Contractor Registry (CCR) prior to an award of a federal contract. The website is: www.ccr.gov. The Government will review any/all item descriptions and pricing information submitted and determine if other qualified sources do exist that could provide this requirement. Information received in response will be used solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. If no affirmative responses are received within 15 days, in accordance with FAR 13.106-1(b)(1), negotiations will be conducted with PENTAD Systems, 17 West Falcon Avenue, Spokane, WA 99218 as the only source and a purchase order will be issued without any additional notices being posted.