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Expression of Interest Date: 20 July 2012
Subject: Maintenance, Warranty, Enhancements and New Capabilities for the Geospatial Exploitation System (GES)
Reply Date: 06 August 2012 at 16:00 Central European Time ------
In 2010 the IAEA contracted for the development of an imagery and geospatial analysis system called the Geospatial Exploitation System (GES). The focus of the GES phase I project was to provide secure access to commercial satellite imagery, associated spatial data (site maps) and non-spatial data to support both analysts and users across the IAEA Department of Safeguards.
The IAEA now requires maintenance, warranty, updates and upgrades, as well as the development of new tools to promote the integration of new GES services deployed within the Department of Safeguards (see attached Statement of Work). The available funds for Phase II are approximately 2 million USD over a 3-year contract period, with the potential for additional funding and contract extension in subsequent years.
Interested companies or institutions with relevant experience and technical & professional capability to provide these services are invited to express interest by responding by fax or e-mail as indicated below. You are kindly requested to provide the following information in your response:
(i) Confirmation of your interest to participate in a future solicitation for this business opportunity; (ii) Your company’s contact details (contact person’s name, address, telephone and fax numbers, e- mail, website, etc.); (iii) Information on your experience in performing contracts of similar requirements; (iv) Indicate the number, quality and experience of staff resources that your company has working on GIS projects; (v) Extent to which you may enter into partnerships or subcontract work in order to perform the services (%) (vi) Any relevant partnerships or awards (ESRI, Microsoft, etc.); (vii) Indicate the size of your company (number of employees) and annual turnover (USD or EUR); and (viii) Headquarters location, location where work will be performed, and the existence of any European support offices.
Important Notice:
This Letter does not constitute a solicitation. The IAEA reserves the right to change or cancel the requirement at any time. Thus, submitting a reply to this Letter does not automatically guarantee that your company will be considered for receipt of the solicitation when issued.
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Statement of Work
GES Maintenance, IAEA Specification Enhancements and New SGIM-001 Revision 2.1 Capabilities Dated 20 July 2012
Maintenance, Enhancements and New Capabilities for the IAEA’s Geospatial Exploitation System (GES)
The IAEA requires maintenance, warranty, updates and upgrades, as well as support for the development of new tools to promote the integration of new services deployed within the Department of Safeguards.
Background In 2010 the Agency contracted for the development of an imagery and geospatial analysis system called the Geospatial Exploitation System (GES). The focus of the GES project was to develop a secure system to process, analyse, visualize, and disseminate geospatial information (imagery, site maps, and supporting information) in support of both analysts and users across the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Department of Safeguards. A Geospatial Exploitation System (GES) has been designed and developed for the IAEA to support the analysis of imagery and geospatial data within the Department of Safeguards. The primary focus of the GES is the integration of best-of-breed commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) imagery analysis and geographic information system (GIS) tools combined with custom code for the development of a system that supports processing, analysis, visualization, and dissemination of imagery and imagery-derived products. To meet the increasing demands for geospatial information across the Department of Safeguards (approximately 650 staff members), an important component of the system is a globe-based, geospatial browser/viewer (referred to as the “geobrowser”) that provides a Safeguards-wide tool to search, serve, and display, maps and site specific non-spatial assets such as documents, videos, ground photographs and audio files. The GES consists of the integration of COTS software, with custom code to integrate components into a secure and scalable system designed to meet the increasing demands for geospatial information at the IAEA. The System was designed to provide a capability to efficiently and effectively manage the complete image analysis cycle from initial task requests for analysis through digital report dissemination. Examples of analysis activities include site monitoring, change detection, inspection planning, 3D terrain analysis, and search applications for geospatial information on nuclear sites/activities. Imagery analysis products include analytical reports, annotated illustrations, site diagrams, and 3D graphics. The system accommodates very large, world- wide geospatial (raster and vector) datasets that have varying resolutions, formats and types and non-spatial assets in the form of textual documents, raster maps, photographs and videos. The GES contains a site and asset management component for spatially and relationally managing system assets. One of the most critical components of the GES is security. The security model is very robust and granular in order to provide the flexibility necessary to accommodate the complex information security requirements of the IAEA. The system uses role-based access controls and is required to be compatible with the Department’s changing designs and architecture. Security is implemented system-wide across all functional components and applies to all data types.
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The GES is based on ESRI ArcGIS Server technologies, and uses an enterprise Geodatabase implemented using ESRI ArcSDE and Microsoft SQL Server technologies. The system is based on a Service-oriented architecture (SOA) where web services are used to send and receive data from the server to the clients and between applications. Spatial data is delivered through map services, and large image files are streamed via web coverage services. The Department’s Integrated Safeguards Environment (ISE) is an air-gapped environment mainly based on Microsoft technology. The role-based access control was initially implemented by using third party products, which is planned to be moved to an Active Directory based implementation.
Scope In 2011 the GES was tested, formally accepted and is in the process of being operationally deployed at the IAEA. Phase II will involve the establishment of a contract for the continued maintenance and warranty of the system, the development of enhancements to the existing system and the establishment of new tools and capabilities to link to other data and databases within the Department. The Phase II contractor will be expected to establish a simulated IAEA development environment at the Contractor’s premises (with duplicate client HW and virtual SW configurations) for development and testing purposes. Phase II activities will include: • Provision of maintenance and warranty for both COTS and custom software components established in Phase I, and those delivered in Phase II; • Software enhancements; i.e. development of new functionality based on lessons learned and user requirements, and • Establishment of new capabilities through the design and prototyping of linkages and tools to other data and databases within the Department of Safeguards
Maintenance and Warranty
The Contractor shall provide maintenance, warranty and technical support for the GES starting the day of entering into a contract with the IAEA. The maintenance and warranty shall last for the duration of the contract. This shall include maintenance contracts for all commercial off-the-shelf software as well as technical support for the custom code developed under Phase I. Extension of the maintenance of the licenses for commercial software is required to ensure access to all upgrades, patches and fixes, etc. provided by the software manufacturers are installed and fully operational. The Contractor shall also ensure that the User Documentation and other GES related documentation is up to date and accurately reflects any changes to the system.
Software Enhancements
As the IAEA has tested phase I of the GES, several functions were identified that would improve the overall usability of the system. These were not identified in the original scope of the project. Such enhancements would apply to increasing system performance, workflow processes, user interface, search tools, and ‘help’ functions. Annex 1 contains a list of examples of enhancements that are to be considered under Phase I.
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Establishment of New Capabilities
A longer term goal of the IAEA is to exploit other data within the Department in concert with the GES. New capabilities are required to be developed to integrate other data and databases within the Department with the GES. This is of critical importance for the integration of the GES to support the Department of Safeguards. Activities will include gathering business requirements, developing technical specifications, and, if funding permits developing a prototype for implementation. Full implementation of these capabilities will be pursued under another phase of this effort.
Deliverables
Deliverables under this contract will include: Delivery and successful deployment of system enhancements (software) into IAEA’s ISE environment; Documentation (design documentation, installation, configuration, help, training); Source code and transfer of all intellectual property associated with developed capabilities; Technical support and maintenance licenses for designated COTS software; Warranty, support and maintenance on custom software; On-site technical support to ensure that all functional requirements are clearly understood, any deployed capabilities are properly tested and operate successfully within the ISE production environment and all software, and scripts are adequately integrated into the Agency’s ISE environment; and User Training.
Work Programme
Software development for both enhancements and new capabilities will be in the form of on- request services to be initiated by the IAEA through work orders on a call-off basis. For each work order, the IAEA will send a written request, containing elaborations, definitions and deliverables as to the nature of a particular on-request service(s). The contractor shall provide, at a minimum, a work plan, schedule and number of days to be allocated to the service. Upon authorization from the IAEA, the contractor will commence work.
Annex 1: List of Enhancements
The following is a list of enhancements to the GES. This list is not comprehensive and has not been prioritized. It represents examples of the type of enhancements that may be requested in concert with Phase II activities.
System Performance Enhancements
Provide 2D geobrowser interface for better performance and viewing
Phase I implemented a 3D ArcExplorer globe environment that suffers from poor performance. Default ArcExplorer tools, such as measure area, also create display artifacts that result in a poor user experience. This enhancement would require the contractor to develop a 2D web based geospatial browser/viewer that will exploit all data types and feature all the tools currently available in the 3D environment, but will provide a better user experience both in performance and display characteristics.
Workflow Enhancements
Visualize history of buildings within the Geobrowser
Site history is essential to tracking changes on sites. History is saved when site maps are updated using ArcMap. This enhancement would be to create a history tool bar that when scrubbed would show/highlight building features in the 2D geospatial browser/viewer as they were built or razed or changed on a site. The user would also have the ability to click on a building and view its history to assess the change to the building.
Add functionality to create satellite imagery reports in the Geobrowser
At present imagery analysts create documents in MS Word that consist of text and illustrations. These analytical reports are then exported to PDF for viewing via the GES. This enhancement would permit imagery analysts to create dynamic overlays that could be visualized in the geospatial browser/viewer, saving time in the creation, exporting and storing of large, complex and resource heavy illustrations. Analytical reports would simply reference overlays within the text and clicking on the reference would display the overlay in the geospatial browser/viewer.
Image mosaic enhancement
Presently in the GES, imagery is managed through an image mosaic dataset within ArcSDE. Each area of interest (site) has an image mosaic dataset. When one image covers 2 or more areas of interest, the image is assigned to the each corresponding site’s image mosaic dataset. Once an image is in the mosaic dataset, the image display within the Geobrowser is controlled by the mosaic dataset. In certain cases, the image mosaic dataset parameters for specific images must be changed to enhance image display in the Geobrowser. Presently, the SDE administrator must change each mosaic dataset record for the affected image to have proper display in the Geobrowser. An enhanced workflow is to have each image controlled in the same manner regardless of which mosaic dataset the image is referenced.
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Annex 2: List of Software in Use with the GES
COTS Analysis Software
ESRI ESRI ArcGIS Desktop ArcInfo and ArcEditor Floating Licenses Analyst-specific ArcMap Extensions such as Spatial Analyst and 3D Analyst ESRI ArcGIS Server Standard Enterprise Edition (4 Cores) Additional Cores for ESRI ArcGIS Server Standard Enterprise Edition ESRI Image Extension for ArcGIS Server (4 Cores) Additional Cores for ESRI Image Extension for ArcGIS Server ESRI ArcGIS Data Appliance-World Premium (4 Cores) Additional Cores for ESRI ArcGIS Data Appliance-World Premium
ERDAS IMAGINE Professional
Overwatch Remote View Pro
IAEA Proprietary Custom Software/Programming Language Code
The GES uses custom software and programming language code which has been developed for the IAEA, to which the IAEA owns the source code and all rights, including:
Database scripts, database projects, test projects, project for web services and UI including binaries and executables Installation, setup, configuration and deployment notes and guides Configuration files for customized components Installation, training, and user documentation
Note: Source code means all logic diagrams, flowcharts, algorithms, routines, sub-routines, utilities, models, file structures, coding sheets, source codes listings, functional specifications, program specifications and all other materials and documents of a software that are necessary to enable a reasonably skilled programmed having knowledge of the functionality to maintain, amend and enhance such software without reference to any other person or document.