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DPAC is seeking a consultancy to develop pilot datasets, indices and tools to support disaster risk assessment and management in Tasmania. The work includes developing models and indices of direct impact and of physical and functional isolation for critical services from priority natural hazards; creating system models and assumptions for delivery of critical services; producing vulnerability indices for utilities, the road network and critical services for priority hazards; modelling and graphing cascading relationships and relative importance between utilities and critical services (such as Emergency Services, Critical Retail, Health, Education and Housing); conducting network analysis of the road transport system to develop importance indices and service catchments for roads used to access the nearest local and regional critical services; and developing tools and systems to deliver and maintain the datasets and analyses as WFS/APIs usable in systems such as LiST (www.list.tas.gov.au), standalone portals (such as ESRI portal) or desktop GIS (QGIS/ESRI), with the option to provide this capacity via Software as a Service.