Specifications include, but are not limited to: The City of Austin, Texas, Department of Aviation is seeking responses from professional consultants with airport specific expertise to develop an Information Technology Plan for Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (ABIA). The successful proposer shall be responsible for the development of the ABIA Information Technology Master Plan (IT Master Plan) and for providing project management and Information Technology (IT) management expertise. This request for response will become the basis for negotiations leading to a contract with a successful proposer to provide services as described in this document. The scope of professional services includes the following: A. Information Technology Master Plan (IT Master Plan) The strategic plan will map a clear course of improvement from the presently owned technology and infrastructure to a desired future technology base. The work shall be based upon surveys of existing conditions, investigation and analysis of current and projected business requirements and constraints. The plan shall include recommendations, with order of magnitude cost estimates and priorities, for systems and infrastructure work at ABIA. The following infrastructure and systems will be included in the scope of work however additional systems and applications may be discovered during survey, interviews and workshops: 1. Communications backbone interior & exterior with associated cable plant. 2. Power conditions and level of backup power. 3. Interior communications spaces and extent of horizontal wiring. 4. High reliability, high availability, high capacity shared tenant local area network and associated network management system(s) and network operations center, network management security and operations. 5. Enterprise level physical and virtual network infrastructure (servers and desktops) management system(s), network operations center, and network management security and operations. 6. Voice service delivery including Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP). 7. Radio Frequency Systems and Wireless Technology Infrastructure (including but not limited to: tenant antenna farm, in-building bi-directional amplifier, campus 802.11x network, distributed antenna system, etc.) 8. Operational support systems such as: common use passenger processing, common use self-service, local departure control, baggage message service, flight information display system, flight operations database, gate management system, security access control and video monitoring system. 9. Voice paging system and visual paging systems. 10. Automatic vehicle identification and tracking system. 11. Building management system interfacing. 12. Enterprise Asset Management Program. 13. Geographical Information System. 14. Smart Building System, Baggage Handling System, HVAC, Environmental Controls. 15. Parking and Ground Transportation Revenue Control Systems. 16. Electronic Records Management. B. Coordination of the Information Technology Master Plan The IT Master Plan shall be coordinated with the ABIA Business Continuity Plan Team and the Terminal East Infill Project Team. ABIA is currently working on a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) to ensure that the Airport is able to respond and function adequately after a significant event, disaster or catastrophic event. The Terminal East Infill Project is a four level, 40,000sq.ft. addition to the Terminal building that will add a new checkpoint, expand the ticket lobby and add additional concessions space, baggage screening area and other airport operational space. As of October 2012, the timeline for the BCP is yet to be determined and the Terminal East Infill Project is to start design in December 2012. The ITMP recommendations will be incorporated into these projects. C. Conceptual Base Schematic Schematic-level designs of priority systems and infrastructure as identified by the ABIA after the draft IT Master Plan review. This will be used as the basis for design and framework for future project planning, design and implementation.
