REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

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Task  1. Perform a complete hydrographic and topographical survey of the Caribbean Sea.

Task 2. Identify and properly mark, for weather and visibility conditions, hazards to navigation, on the surface, under the surface, and bordering land surface of the Caribbean Sea.   

Task 3. Establish waterway  navigation regulations, operating manuals, and chart booklets for commercial vessels containing rules and regulations and waterway toll schedule.

Task 4. Inspect all commercial vessels for safety of their equipment and cargo storage.

Task 5. Instruct crews and captains in the proper implementation and  use of navigation, basic boating, sailing and seamanship skills,  principles of sailing and navigation, basic  First Aid, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), and basic communications skills.

Task 5a. Design and develop educational programs to be presented and accomplished by experienced and inexperienced trainees. 

Task 5b. Establish the "Caribbean Sea Institute".                    

Task 6. Establish a Centralized Vessel Control System.

Task 6a. Establish a shore monitoring station 

Task 6b. Establish a real-time Caribbean Sea traffic situation plot. 

Task 7. Establish electronic surveillance.

Task 8. Establish an emergency response capability, providing rapid and effective response  to any distress call.  

Task 9. Develop a navigation system to handle increase vessel traffic.  

Task 10. Establish regulations for pollution prevention and port safety for waterfront facilities.

Task 11. Establish daily checks on vessel traffic on the waterway, special transport arrangements, security zone classifications, and other special authorizations for vessel waterway movement.
 

Task 12. Establish navigation safety for vessels, navigation equipment, shipping and  waterway safety, and traffic separation schemes.

Task 13. Establish regulations and rules for navigational waterway safety.

Task 14. Establish a "Traffic Control and Management System". 

Task 15.  Establish a communications system.

Task 16. Establish a system of Operations Analysis.

IV - Other Requirements 

1. The proposal shall contain a discussion of the possible approaches to vessel traffic control. Specifically, the Proposer should address any potential problems with each proposed solution for a vessel traffic control system and with adverse performance, or effects on the system by weather, or emergency situations.

2. The proposal should contain a discussion of the technical feasibility or adapting advanced technologies to vessel traffic control. Specifically, the proponents will address the efficiency and durability of each system proposed and the effects of a phased implementation.

The Caribbean Sea Navigation Development Authority may not choose to fund this study unless it is convinced the study will be technically feasible.

3. The contractor will hold an initial meeting and quarterly meetings thereafter, with the Caribbean Sea Navigation Development Authority staff. The meetings will be held at the Caribbean Sea Navigation Development Authority's office in Jamaica.