SOLICITATION NOTICE
20 -- Charter for an Antarctic Research & Supply Vessel (ARSV) with icebreaking capability
- Notice Date
- 9/1/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 483112
— Deep Sea Passenger Transportation
- Contracting Office
- National Science Foundation, Division of Contracts & Complex Agreements, DCCA, 4201 Wilson Boulevard Room 475, Arlington, VA, 22230
- ZIP Code
- 22230
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-RPSC2006RFP
- Response Due
- 9/15/2006
- Archive Date
- 9/30/2006
- Description
- General Background Information: Raytheon Technical Services, Polar Services Company, (RPSC) will be soliciting proposals towards securing a charter (with an option to buy?) an Antarctic Research and Supply Vessel (ARSV) with icebreaking capability to operate in and around the waters of the Antarctic Peninsula and Southern Oceans in support of the United States Antarctic Program. RPSC presently charters and provides science support staffing on the R/V LAURENCE M. GOULD and the R/V NATHANIEL B. PALMER for the National Science Foundation, an agency of the United States Government, and it is on their behalf that RPSC is pursuing the charter of a vessel to meet the scientific research and Palmer Station logistics support requirements of the United States Antarctic Program to be chartered for a period of five (5) years with options for another five (5) years. The purpose of this announcement is to seek interested parties in industry capable of supplying a vessel to continue to provide services currently supported by the R/V LAURENCE M. GOULD. The vessel will be required to operate frequently in ice, with frequent operations south of 60 degrees South Latitude and in the often extremely stormy waters south of Cape Horn in the Drake Passage, to provide logistic and oceanographic research support for Palmer Station. It must be sea worthy and fully found, appropriately classed and providing a stable platform from which to conduct such research as may be programmed at that time and comfortable enough to support personnel at sea for extended periods. Such remote operations necessarily require a reliable and well fitted vessel. Operations in support of scientific research and the requirement to re-supply and carry personnel to Palmer Station will be of equal importance within the Technical Requirements in the RFP. It is anticipated that an RFP will be issued in December of 2006 or January of 2007. To receive the full Request for Proposal, industry is requested to provide Letters of Interest by September 15, 2006 to: Raytheon Polar Services Company 7400 S. Tucson Way Centennial, CO 80112-3938 Attn: Mr. Fred Lehn 720-568-2369 303-790-9129 FAX fred.lehn@usap.gov
- Record
- SN01133069-W 20060903/060901221722 (fbodaily.com)
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