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NAFC RFP ASIR 2021+
Tender ID: 450166
Tender Details
Organisation:
Tender #:
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Status:
Closed
Publish Date:
19 March 2021
Closing Date:
14 April 2021
Tender Description
The National Aerial Firefighting Centre (NAFC) invites proposals for the provision of Airborne Strategic Intelligence and Reconnaissance (ASIR) services. Successful proposers will be experienced, highly motivated, highly capable providers who will enter into contracts to provide specialised remote sensing services commencing in 2021 (for the 2021-2022 fire season and onwards).
The services sought are generally airborne remote-sensing services, or the acquisition and provision of geo-located, geo-rectified imagery using electro-optical (EO) sensors mounted aboard fixed wing aircraft.
The services are required principally to support the management of bushfires in Australia and are also likely be used in the management of other emergencies and for other remote sensing tasks such as environmental monitoring.
Key service requirements include:
- rapid acquisition of high-quality synoptic information over broad areas, at short notice
- the ability, in one mission, to be able to conduct image acquisition at a number of locations that may be hundreds of kilometres apart
- the ability to deliver, to emergency managers, high-fidelity information products in near-real-time, from any operating area in Australia.
In broad terms, this RFP:
- Invites proposals for the supply of services that are immediately available during the Australian southern bushfire season (approximately September to April) in each year of a Contract Period of up to five years.
- Invites proposals for the supply of services that are immediately available in Western Australia for a longer period (approximately August to May) in each year of the Contract Period.
- Explores the possibility of some level of services being available in Australia for an extended period, or even year-round, in each year of the Contract.
- Explores the possibility of supplying some products through image acquisition using non-conventional platforms.
- The services sought by this RFP are intended to complement other existing capabilities that gather intelligence at a more tactical level.
Note: Proposals cannot be accepted after the closing time.
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