Deadline: 9-Sep-20
Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) is seeking a web-accessible single platform solution to be used as a decision support system to provide cost-effective and sustainable solution to coastal and marine infrastructure planning, climate change risk assessment and adaptation in areas where PSPC is facing significant risks to coastal infrastructure due to climate change.
PSPC is seeking to develop an integration coastal information portal of various sources and data types into one place along with required built-in computational tools, which will be used as a reliable one-stop decision support system for risk assessment and infrastructure design. It will also be a useful solution for decision making during emergency measure operations and disaster management in case of an extreme climate event.
Funding Information
- The maximum funding available for any Phase 1 Contract resulting from this Challenge is $150,000.00 CAD excluding applicable taxes, shipping, travel, and living expenses, as required, for up to 6 months.
- The maximum funding available for any Phase 2 Contract resulting from this Challenge is $1,000,000.00 CAD excluding applicable taxes, shipping, travel, and living expenses, as required, for up to 12. Only eligible businesses that have successfully completed Phase 1 will be considered for Phase 2.
Desired outcomes and considerations
- Essential (mandatory) outcomes: Proposed solutions must:
- Be a web-accessible single platform solution with access to a collection of datasets, digital maps, tables, illustrations and include built-in computational tools capable of systematically representing sites along coastal zones of Canada (including the Arctic).
- Include tidal elevation data (higher high water large tide (HHWLT); lower low water large tide (LLWLT); Mean water level (MWL), and extreme water levels and storm surges for 1, 10, 25, 50 and 100 year return periods and the maximum flood of record (as well as the ability to predict these going forward).
- Include extreme nearshore wave climate of high-resolution model outputs with directional distributions and return periods (i.e. 1, 10, 25, 50, 100 years) from varying governing directions for the sites under existing conditions and for climate change scenarios over the next 50 years and 100 years.
- Be able to provide trends of changes of sea-level rise, wind speed, and ice thickness at the sites for the next 100 years (using 2020 as the base year) under various climate change scenarios (lower, medium and higher estimates).
- Include available high-resolution nearshore hydrographic datasets with geo-referenced mapping/graphical interface capability for overlaying extreme wave climate maps and infrastructure plans,
- Be able to extract or calculate near-shore coastal parameters at required point locations either from the available information in the system or using built-in computational tools.
- Be able to include small craft harbors and any other government infrastructure sites located in or near lakes, rivers, and estuaries.
- Be user friendly to extract, calculate, interpret and visualize the results and maps; and to incorporate new sites datasets, plans, reports, and drawings when they become available to update the system on a regular basis. It should be capable of displaying a graphical (map style) interface and the routines it completes should be able to be completed with minimal user selections/clicks/inputs with a Common Look and Feel (CLF) across platforms.
- Additional outcomes: Proposed solutions should:
- Have 3 dimensional (3D) and geo-referenced mapping/graphical interface.
- Include all possible assets and existing infrastructure information.
- Include available historical hydrographic datasets since 2000.
- Include available geotechnical borehole logs and information.
- Be compatible in terms of the ability to use and access the solution via WIN10 machines.
- Be able to seamlessly access and load various databases, including data sets from ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute) products as well as Auto Desk products at a minimum. Spatially this would mean that it should be able to deal with various geographic datum and projections where this information could vary across data sets.
Eligibility Criteria
- for-profit
- incorporated in Canada (federally or provincially)
- 499 or fewer full-time equivalent (FTE) employees
- research and development activities that take place in Canada
- 50% or more of its annual wages, salaries and fees are currently paid to employees and contractors who spend the majority of their time working in Canada
- 50% or more of its FTE employees have Canada as their ordinary place of work
- 50% or more of its senior executives (Vice President and above) have Canada as their principal residence.
For more information, visit https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/101.nsf/eng/00114.html