Appendix_L.1-_Representative_Task_Order.pdf

Appendix L.1- Representative Task Order

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC

ADMINISTRATION

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE

THE ADVANCED WEATHER INTERACTIVE

PROCESSING SYSTEM

REPRESENTATIVE TASK ORDER

JULY 08, 2015

ACQUISITION AND GRANTS OFFICE

EASTERN ACQUISITION DIVISION

NORFOLK, VIRGINIA

Appendix L.1 – Representative Task Order

1. BACKGROUND

The National Weather Service is responsible for providing weather, hydrologic, tsunami, and climactic forecasts and warnings for the United States, its territories, and all adjacent waters to

Government agencies, private sector businesses, the general public, and the broader global community.

The AWIPS architectural design is driven by the requirement for a highly secure, robust, scalable system that can operate continuously and at full capacity twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week, and three hundred sixty-five (365) days a year. The future of AWIPS operations is contingent upon maintaining the highest level of availability, throughput, and data integrity essential to ensuring the effective completion of its mission. Reducing the volume of hardware currently necessary to operate AWIPS will result in a variety of tangible and intangible benefits throughout the lifecycle of the system.

2. OBJECTIVE

The Offeror shall provide a plan addressing Objective Number 4.1.8 from the Advanced

Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) Statement of Objectives (SOO) document dated July 08, 2015, for reduction of the baseline hardware footprint. This plan shall evaluate the hardware profile across the entire AWIPS enterprise; that is, it shall take into account all

AWIPS baseline systems (including all types of operational sites, training sites and test beds), and shall consider operations and maintenance; as well as development and testing, aspects of

AWIPS as presented in the Request for Proposals (RFP), with the objective of recommending methods to consolidate and streamline the AWIPS hardware architecture.

3. REPRESENTATIVE TASK ORDER REQUIREMENTS

The Offeror shall provide an Engineering Assessment Plan and schedule describing how it would conduct an engineering assessment to reduce the AWIPS hardware footprint across the

AWIPS enterprise. At a minimum, the plan shall include the following elements:

3.1. The Offeror shall identify solutions for reducing the AWIPS hardware profile across the

AWIPS enterprise, taking into account all objectives and requirements specified in the

SOO. The Offeror shall provide:

3.1.1. A brief description of each solution, including any assumptions and constraints

3.1.2. A preliminary description of risks, risk mitigations, opportunities, advantages, and disadvantages associated with each solution.

3.2. The Offeror shall describe the methodology that would be used in its Engineering

Assessment Plan for determining the recommended solution(s). The methodology description shall include the following elements:

3.2.1. Factors that would be used to evaluate the solutions

3.2.2. Description of what processes, methods, and metrics would be used in the determination of the relative merit of the solutions, including how identified risks would be mitigated.

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3.3. Schedule for the Execution of the Engineering Assessment

The Offeror shall provide a schedule for the execution of the Engineering Assessment

Task Order, including the duration in business days.

4. DELIVERABLES

Offerors shall provide an Engineering Assessment Plan and schedule that addresses all task requirements specified herein, and meets all of the specifications and other requirements included within the RFP and SOO. The Offeror shall indicate the relationship between the

Representative Task Order response and the Performance Work Statement.

The Offeror’s Engineering Assessment Plan and schedule for this Representative Task Order shall be included in Volume II - Technical Proposal as described in Section L of the RFP.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

This Representative Task Order is for evaluation purposes only, and does not commit the

Government to place an order for any of the work described herein. The Representative

Task Order may or may not be incorporated in a subsequent contract award, at the sole discretion of the Government.