DOI USGS RFP: Technical Support Services Contract IDIQ

Notice ID: 140G0125R0004

This Performance Work Statement (PWS) defines the requirements for science, engineering, and technical support necessary to assist the USGS EROS Center in fulfilling its mission.  These requirements include, but are not limited to, technical support in the functional areas of statistical analysis, algorithm development, data analysis, software engineering, systems engineering, network engineering, information technology, information assurance/security, computer operations, satellite data reception and processing, systems maintenance, archiving and data management, scientific research support, and user support.

A key mission element of the USGS EROS Center is to promote new uses, new users, and new understanding of landscape and coastal scale processes and information to provide a better understanding of our planet. At EROS, we study land change and how it impacts ecosystems, economics, and everyday life. This scientific research helps to demonstrate to the world the high value of the National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive, a permanent global archive consisting of imagery over land and water areas obtained from satellites orbiting the Earth, and related information.

EROS scientific research and applications focuses on land change monitoring, assessment, and projection, vegetation and water dynamics, hazards, early warning for food security, emergency response, coastal changes and impacts, and remote sensing research and development. Cooperation with established and potential users of remote sensing data is required to meet discipline-specific information needs. The work involves the use of advanced processing techniques to ingest, display, and analyze coastal and land surface data such as geology, topography, bathymetry, soils, vegetation, hydrology, and land use.  These data are analyzed in combination with remotely sensed data to monitor environmental change, characterize landscapes, and contribute to the study of land processes on regional, national, continental, and global scales.  Activities include:

• identifying data and information requirements of the land management and earth science community for understanding Earth systems, climate change, vulnerability and resiliency of natural systems, and identifying relevant information that can be derived using remotely sensed data and other geocoded data;
• developing techniques to format and display earth science data and information for inventorying, monitoring, and managing Earth resources;
• prototyping and developing advanced scientific infrastructure to support near real-time land change detection; multi-temporal analysis to support scientific assessment and applications …

This is a single-award Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract under which individual task orders will be issued for services of Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, Technical Support Services Contract.

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