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W81EWF-23-SOI-0011: SOUTHEAST TEXAS HURRICANE EVACUATION STUDY RE-STUDY VULNERABILTY, BEHAVIORAL, SHELTER, and TRANSPORTATION ANALYSES

Closed Closed July 18, 2023 Opportunity W81EWF-23-SOI-0011 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is open now: ERDC Broad Agency Announcement (W912HZ26S0001). Status: Closes January 1, 2027 (55 days left). It is in our archive of Dept. of the Army -- Corps of Engineers notices from 2023.

• Award ceiling$150,000
• Expected awards1
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

This opportunity is restricted to non-federal partners of the Gulf Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Study Unit Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit (CESU).

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering awards averaged $1.1 million; this notice allows up to $150,000 per award.
• Most of the program's money (69% over five years) went to colleges and universities.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The scope of the work to be performed by the Contractor to support the National Hurricane Program (NHP) in performing a Vulnerability, Behavioral, Shelter, and Transportation Analyses for the Southeast Texas Hurricane Evacuation Re-Study. Tasks include: - Coordination/ Project Initiation and Kick-Off (Base Year) · The contractor should maintain steady and direct coordination with the Galveston District. All contractor deliverables will be provided directly to the Galveston District for distribution. All contacts or coordination with non-USACE entities made to satisfy the subsequent tasks will be documented and provided to the USACE Project Manager with summary reports of information provided or received. Contacts or coordination summaries will be provided with each status report when new contact data has been added. - Vulnerability Analysis (Base Year) · The Contractor shall prepare an updated Vulnerability Analysis to identify the areas, populations, infrastructure, and facilities that are potentially vulnerable to hurricane-induced flooding, inland riverine flooding, and wind damages under a variety of hurricane and tropical storm scenarios. The inundation maps (storm tide maps) and FEMA floodplain maps produced by the Hazards Analysis should be used to determine which surge vulnerable areas may need to be evacuated in response to a particular coastal storm threat. Evacuation routes should be analyzed to determine if any roadways or bridges are subject to freshwater flooding that could impede evacuating traffic. · Using the data developed above, the Contractor shall support local and state emergency managers in developing new or refining existing evacuation zones. · Evacuation zones serve as the foundational geographic unit to locate and quantify the vulnerable population, provide a base to model traffic movements from one geographic area to another, determine needed shelter capacity, and allow communities to manage the implementation of evacuations (i.e., during certain hurricane scenarios, pre-identified evacuation zones would be evacuated, clearly identifying those who are targeted for evacuation). · New/ refined evacuation zones should have, as much as possible, a coordinated layout, nomenclature, color coding, labeling, etc. and can be easily communicated to the public by State and Local emergency managers and the media. The end result shall be a set of evacuation zones that meet the goals of the project.

Category: Science and Technology and other Research and Development.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, W912HZ26S0001, which is open now.

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