Description
The Cherokee Nation is seeking advisory assistance and specification development for a public alert and warning system. The system should provide audible, visual, and digital alerts to ensure rapid, reliable, and equitable public notification across the Cherokee Nation Reservation. The contractor will be responsible for conducting a reservation-wide vulnerability assessment, system design, and providing a multi-modal public warning solution. The contractor must demonstrate experience implementing Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS)–Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)–compliant alerting systems and automatic activation technologies.
• The project includes a comprehensive reservation-wide vulnerability assessment and site analysis.
• The contractor will develop specifications for a multi-modal alerting system capable of providing audible, visual, and digital alerts.
• The system must be IPAWS-CAP compliant and automatically activate based on real-time wind-speed triggers.
• The contractor will provide bi-weekly coordination meetings and submit monthly progress reports.
• All data, reports, designs, and deliverables produced under this contract shall become the property of the Cherokee Nation upon final acceptance.