Provide and Maintain a Chemical Hazard Prediction and Emergency Management Automated Information System for the US Army Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program

Sources Sought to Provide and Maintain a Chemical Hazard Prediction and Emergency Management Automated Information System for the US Army Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program 1. The Director for U.S. Army Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program (CSEPP) intends to award a follow-on support contract for Chemical Hazard Prediction and Emergency Management Automated Information System for use at the two US Army chemical agent storage sites and the Chemical Materials Activity Headquarters (CMA HQ). Commercial or non-developmental sources capable of meeting the CSEPP Automated Information System key performance parameters (KPPs) described in this announcement should respond to this announcement no later 4:00 PM EST, 25 May 2016 with the information requested in Paragraph 3 of this announcement. 2. The current information system is a fully integrated emergency management system containing approximately 371,000 lines of Java/Javascript/JSP code, 95,000 lines of C++ code (in the hazard modeling components), and 10,000 lines of dynamically generated HTML code and formatting. The operating environment is Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The system architecture includes the Apache webserver, Tomcat application container, and the PostgreSQL database with PostGIS extensions. The Automated Information System is currently in use at the two U.S. Army chemical weapons stockpile locations (Richmond KY and Pueblo CO) and surrounding state and local governments and CMA HQ (Edgewood MD). The Government does not have unrestricted rights to the current software. 3. Responses. Identify "CSEPP Chemical Hazard Prediction and Emergency Management Automated Information System Sources Sought Notice" as the subject of your response. All information collected from this Notice shall be used for planning purposes only. Do not mistake this Sources Sought Notice as a Request for Proposal or as an obligation on the part of the Government. The Government does not intend to award a contract based on this Sources Sought Notice or otherwise pay for information solicited. Please identify any proprietary information submitted. All information submitted will be held in a confidential status. Key Performance Parameters (KPPs) Hazard Assessment Plume Projection Model: - The atmospheric dispersion model shall be verified, validated and accredited for use at the two chemical stockpile sites, with accreditation by the Army Safety Office (through the Army Nuclear Chemical Agency) and the Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board. - Model methodology shall be fully compliant with requirements in DA Pamphlet 385-61, Toxic Chemical Agent Safety Standards, and DoD Instruction 5000.61, DoD Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Verification, Validation, and Accreditation (VV&A). - The model shall be fully integrate-able with existing Army/CSEPP emergency response automation systems, including Work Plans, GIS, status boards, logs, and local notification forms. - The model run times shall meet the CSEPP requirements for notification times of 5-10 minutes (depending on site), which includes the hazard assessment and Protective Action Recommendation (PAR). - The model shall be capable of modeling all stockpile chemical warfare agents and potential release modes (spill, explosion, fire, stack release) - The model shall be capable of modeling the air dispersion of common Toxic Industrial Chemicals (TICs) - The model shall be capable of predicting time-dependent chemical concentrations and concentration-time integrals (ie dosage), particularly Acute Exposure Guideline Levels (AEGLs), and their accumulation times. - The model shall be fully integrate-able into the existing real-time meteorological network at the two chemical depots, which includes multiple instrument/multiple level towers both on- and off-post, and National Weather Service forecast model output. - The model shall provide a user interface with the Joint effects Model (JEM). - The model shall receive and parse Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) messages from other information systems. Automated Information System: - Shall be Thin Client format in compliance with Army Regulation 25-1, Army Knowledge Management and Information Technology Chapter 6, Command, Control, Communications, and Computers/Information Technology Support and Services - Shall be capable of providing browser-based Work Plan, Protective Action Recommendation, and Protective Action Decision functionality, status boards, and logs - Shall incorporate an integrated hazard assessment plume projection model - Shall have integrated browser-based mapping. - Shall be capable of having embedded training materials - Shall be functional on both Internet Explorer and Firefox - System availability shall be maintainable at greater than 98%. Information Assurance - Shall comply with DoD Instruction 8510.01, 12 March 2014, Risk Management Framework for DoD Information Technology (IT). - Shall comply with Army regulation 25-2, Information Assurance Ability to maintain, modify and further develop the chemical hazard prediction automated information system software and network based upon identified deficiencies - Shall be able to implement modifications without interruption of emergency management performance. - Shall be able to maintain the computational model and address software defects, shortcomings, and other changes as required. - Shall be able modify the AIS to address user feature requests. - Shall be able to implement IAVAs/STIGs to remain current with Army Risk Management Framework requirements. Emergency Management Domain Experience - Demonstrated ability to apply emergency management principles to the software development practice. - Demonstrated experience with near-real time evacuation models, chemical dispersion models, shelter-in-place dynamics and meteorological models - Knowledge and demonstrated experience with the National Incident Management System (NIMS), Army regulation 50-6, Chemical Surety; and Department of the Army Pamphlet 525-27, Army Emergency Management Program. 4. The Director, US Army CSEPP requests that commercial or non-developmental sources capable of meeting the CSEPP Automated Information System KPP requirements for the support contract for Chemical Hazard Prediction and Emergency Management Automated Information System respond to this Government request with the following information: a. Name and location of the facility for the development and maintenance of the software system. b. Product designation and technical description. c. Product marketing literature. The requested information should be submitted electronically in Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf). When printed onto single-sided letter-size sheets the submitted information should not exceed ten (10) sheets. The information should be forwarded electronically to- Mr. Robert Weiss Automation Manager, CSEPP robert.a.weiss14.civ@mail.mil 410.436.8791 FAX 410.436.3179 And/Or Mr. Richard O'Donnell Contracts Manager, CSEPP richard.h.odonnell2.civ@mail.mil 410.436.7666 End of document ee Attachment