Opportunity: DOB018 ENVI/IDL LICENSES (77)

Modification #1: THIS NOTICE IS TO EXTEND THIS NOTICE FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION, REQUESTING QUOTATIONS. THIS IS TO DIRECT ALL INTERESTED VENDORS TO RFQ 140G0118Q0152. IF YOU BELIEVE YOU COULD FULFILL THIS REQUIREMENT AND HAVE A VALID DUN AND BRADSTREET NUMBER AND ARE REGISTERED AT SAM.GOV, PLEASE EMAIL THE PURCHASING AGENT AT CHIEB@USGS.GOV. The US Geological Survey (USGS)/Earth Resources Observations Systems (EROS) HAS A REQUIREMENT FOR ENVI SITE LICENSE 2018 RENEWAL, UPDATES AND SUPPORT FOR EXISTING SITE LICENSE FOR USGS/EROS, 27914 252ND ST. SIOUX FALLS, SD 57198. A Firm Fixed Price Open Market Award will be made to the Vendor that is Low Priced, Technically Acceptable (Award Criteria). If the USGS/EROS is contacted by any vendor who believes they have similar technical expertise and can provide the same service. Vendors are invited to contact the Purchasing Agent, Carolyn Hieb, chieb@usgs.gov,no later than 12:00 PM EST, Wednesday, March 28, 2018 with an affirmative answer. The USGS/EROS has a requirement for continued maintenance and support of the ENVI/IDL software. Software is needed for gathering information from ad-hoc data visualization and data analysis, along with reading, extracting, processing, analyzing, and sharing information from geospatial imagery. Creating the same processes we have already developed in ENVI, in a different software package, would require significant time and labor costs and would result in unavoidable disruption to services provided to reimbursable customers. Production would have to be stopped while we developed and redeployed processes in a new software system. ENVI has several unique features meeting the Government's minimum needs: Working with multiple operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Unix and Linux. This is important to some projects, particularly those that use ENVI in production environments as these environments typically run mixed OSs. ENVI is a commercial customizable software and now includes a number of functions that were built into ENVI specifically to meet the Governments needs. Because ENVI is one of the original image processing packages, has been around for many years and has worked with numerous organizations, it is broadly backwards compatible. This has been critically important to some USGS/EROS projects such as the Long Term Archive (LTA). Part of their mission is to find, process and archive older data. Providing access and processing ability to this older data increases the temporal data coverage needed by scientists to analyze long term changes. This ability to process these older multi-format types of data using ENVI has saved much labor and processing time for LTA.