Attachment 1: Performance Work Statement Hydrological Database Support Services

HYDROLOGICAL DATABASE (HDB) SUPPORT SERVICES IDIQ

PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT

1. SCOPE:

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OBJECTIVE:

The objective of this performance-based contract is to maintain, support, and further develop the Bureau of Reclamation's Hydrological Database (HDB) through the Contractor's provision of services for on-call technical support, troubleshooting of HDB malfunctions, development of modifications to HDB, support of HDB enhancements, and the development, documentation, and distribution of software applications that interface with HDB.

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BACKGROUND:

HDB is currently used in production in the Upper Colorado Basin Region, in all four of its area offices, in the Lower Colorado Basin Region in the Boulder Canyon Operations Area and Yuma Area Offices, in the Missouri Basin and Arkansas-Rio Grande-Texas Gulf Region in the Eastern Colorado Area Office, in the California Great Basin Region in the Lahontan Basin Area Office and in the Klamath Basin Area Office. Each of these offices support separate instances of HDB for the collection and storage of vital hydrological data within their operational jurisdiction to aid in decision support and reporting for Reclamation facilities managed within each of these offices.

The HDB system is a critical decision support tool for day-to-day operations of many of Reclamation’s major water storage and distribution facilities throughout the Western United States. HDB is critical for enabling and supporting ongoing modeling activities that include (but are not limited to) basin inflow forecasting, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and Endangered Species Act (ESA) compliance processes, long- and mid-term modeling and planning efforts, and day-to-day operational control and management. HDB

is also utilized to support Reclamation’s website and other publicly available data portals such as Reclamation Information Sharing Environment (RISE), and public and internal Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).

The HDB is the foundation for Reclamation's Database of Record. As conceptualized by the Database of Record defining document, the driving vision for the Hydrologic Database is to:
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Consolidate data previously existing in various systems and personal spreadsheets.

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Assure complete and consistent data collection and storage; documentation of data sources.

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Provide historical information on other existing HDB data versions including information on when the data was either used or available for use.

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Perform as a means of quality control.