Summary
The agency seeks to understand industry capabilities related to: Designing measuring systems that will work for both large and smaller locations to accurately measure daily occupancy passively with a reduced level of effort. Suggested different approaches and technical standards for measuring occupancy for different size ranges and configurations of leased and owned administrative spaces. Coordinating with installation vendors and internal VA stakeholders for deploying solutions on an ad-hoc basis when locations are vacated and new space is acquired. Providing summarized occupancy reporting at the asset level on a recurring basis to real property asset managers. Availability of a turnkey solution for accurate ABOA space measurement, sensor installation and occupancy reporting. Methods for estimating deployment costs for alternative solutions including evaluation of measuring strategy, installation of solutions and the cost of demobilizing and/or relocating a solution when VA relocates to another leased location in a market.