Trade Agreement: Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT)
Tendering Procedures: The bidder must supply Canadian goods
and/or services
Competitive Procurement Strategy: Best Overall Proposal
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Nature of Requirements:
Enhancements, Analysis & Maint-STAR
W7707-155818/A
Figueredo, Laila
Telephone No. - (902) 496-5353
Fax No. - (902) 496-5016
Enhancements, Analysis & Maintenance - STAR
The Department of National Defence, Defence Research and
Development Canada (DRDC) Atlantic has a requirement to provide
software design, software implementation, data processing, data
analysis, testing, and maintenance services for the Defence
Research Development Canada (DRDC) Atlantic suite of acoustic
analysis tools and associated software on an "as and when
requested" basis, as a Contract with Task Authorizations.
DRDC Atlantic has been developing software usable for signal
processing applications in order to support research and
analysis objectives. The set of software is called STAR
(Software Tools for Analysis and Research), which provides a
toolset for data processing, display, detailed analysis, and
recording. The STAR suite currently includes the following
software:
- Signal Processing Packages (SPPACS);
- Signal Processing Library (SPLIB);
- SONAR (sound navigation and ranging) library (SONLIB);
- STAR-IDL (the Interactive Data Language - IDL, STAR code);
- STAR++ (the localization libraries written in C/C++ languages);
- Omni-Passive Display (OPD); and
- Acoustic Cetacean Detection Capability (ACDC).
A current STAR software release includes the entire software
suite (this includes additional components to earlier releases
of STAR). A number of groups at DRDC Atlantic have requirements
to perform continuing work on several sonar analysis projects
using STAR, building upon the results of previous work.
The Period of the Contract will be from contract Award up to and
including 31 March 2019.
There are security requirements associated with this
requirement. For additional information, consult Part
6 - Security, Financial and Other Requirements, and Part 7 -
Resulting Contract Clauses. For more
information on personnel and organization security screening or
security clauses, bidders should refer to
the Industrial Security Program (ISP) of Public Works and
Government Services Canada (http://ssi
iss.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/index-eng.html) website.
The requirement is subject to the provisions of the Agreement on
Internal Trade (AIT).
The requirement is limited to Canadian goods and/or services.
This procurement is subject to the Controlled Goods Program. The
Defence production Act defines
Canadian Controlled Goods as certain goods listed in Canada's
Export Control List, a regulation made
pursuant to the Export and Import Permits Act (EIPA).
Delivery Date: Above-mentioned
The Crown retains the right to negotiate with suppliers on any
procurement.
Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada.
