SPECIAL NOTICE
B -- NOTICE OF INTENT TO NEGOTIATE A SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT
- Notice Date
- 4/13/2007
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Western Region Acquisition Division, 7600 Sand Point Way, Northeast, Seattle, WA, 98115-6349, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- WRAD-7-298
- Response Due
- 4/30/2007
- Archive Date
- 5/15/2007
- Description
- NOTICE OF INTENT TO NEGOTIATE A SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT. PURPOSE OF PROPOSED CONTRACT IS TO NEGOTIATE A CONTRACT FOR THE NOAA NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE-NATIONAL MARINE MAMMAL LABORATORY (NMML). UNDER PROPOSED CONTRACT, VENDOR WILL CONDUCT ONGOING STUDIES TO INVESTIGATE REASONS FOR THE DECLINE OF NORTHERN FUR SEALS IN ALASKA. NORTHERN FUR SEALS ARE LISTED AS ?DEPLETED? IN U.S. WATERS UNDER THE MARINE MAMMAL PROTECTION ACT OF 1972. BIENNIAL COUNTS OF SEAL PUPS ON THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS INDICATE THAT THE POPULATION DECREASED AT APPROXIMATELY 5.8% PER YEAR BETWEEN 1998-2004. THE SMALL POPULATION ON BOGOSLOF ISLAND HAS INCREASED AT A RATE OF 12% PER YEAR BETWEEN 1997-2005. REASONS FOR THE DECLINE ARE NOT FULLY UNDERSTOOD. THE TRENDS OF THESE TWO POPULATIONS SUGGEST THAT THE FACTORS LIMITING POPULATION STABILITY ON THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS MAY NOT BE PRSENT ON BOGOSLOF AND/OR THAT THE FORAGING BEHAVIOR OF ANIMALS FROM EACH AREA MAY BE DIFFERENT. NMML INITIATED A COMPLEX RESEARCH PROGRAM TO INVESTIGATE THE WINTER BEHAVIOR OF NEWLY WEANED FUR SEAL PUPS. THIS PROJECT INVOLVED THE ALMOST SIMULTANEOUS DEPLOYMENT OF 99 SATELLITE-LINKED TELEMETRY DEVICES FROM FOUR DIFFERENT ISLANDS IN THE NORTH PACIFIC AND BERING SEAS TO RECORD AND COMPARE THE MOVEMENT PATTERNS OF FUR SEAL PUPS FROM ALL OF THE NORTH AMERICAN ROOKERIES. DOCUMENTING THE WINTER MIGRATIONS WILL HELP NMML MANAGERS UNDERSTAND THE FACTORS THAT MAY BE ACTING ON THE FUR SEAL POPULATION DURING THEIR MOST VULNERABLE LIFE STAGE. PRIMARY OBJECTIVES OF THIS STUDY ARE: 1) DETERMINE MIGRATORY MOVEMENTS AND WINTER DESTINATIONS OF FUR SEALS IN THEIR FIRST YEAR AT SEA; 2) INTERPRET THE FORAGING ACTIVITY OF THIS AGE CLASS USING DIVE DATA AND ACTIVITY PATTERNS; 3) EXAMINE THE ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS INFLUENCING THE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTIONS OF MIGRATION AND FORAGING WITHIN AND BETWEEN YEARS; AND 4) EXAMINE ISLAND AND COLONY EFFECTS ON MIGRATION. DR. MARY ANN LEA ANALYZED THE TELEMETRY DATA OBTAINED FROM FUR SEAL PUPS DURING THE WINTERS OF 2005, 2006, AND 2007. FURTHER, THE CONTRACTOR COMPLETED PH.D STUDYING FORAGING ACTIVITY OF ANTARCTIC FUR SEALS IN RELATION TO OCEANOGRAPHIC PARAMETERS AND WAS AWARDED A NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP TO LEAD THE FIRST YEAR OF THIS PROJECT DESCRIBED ABOVE. FOR THIS REASON, NOAA BELIEVES PROPOSED CONTRACTOR THE ONLY SOURCE THAT CAN COMPLETE THIS STUDY. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE IS FOR 18 MONTHS FROM DATE OF AWARD. THE PROPOSED CONTRACT ACTION IS FOR SUPPLIES OR SERVICES FOR WHICH THE GOVERNMENT INTENDS TO SOLICIT AND NEGOTIATE WITH ONLY ONE SOURCE UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF FAR 6.302. INTERESTED PERSONS MAY IDENTIFY THEIR INTEREST AND CAPABILITY TO RESPOND TO THE REQUIREMENT OR SUBMIT PROPOSALS. THIS NOTICE OF INTENT IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS. HOWEVER, ALL PROPOSALS RECEIVED WITHIN 15 DAYS AFTER DATE OF PUBLICATION OF THIS SYNOPSIS WILL BE CONSIDERED BY THE GOVERNMENT. THIS IS A SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION WITH AN ESTIMATED VALUE OF LESS THAN $100,000.
- Record
- SN01272753-W 20070415/070413220418 (fbodaily.com)
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