SPECIAL NOTICE
F -- Acid Precipitation Monitoring Site TX56 located in Wise County, New York
- Notice Date
- 1/14/2016
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- Contracting Office
- USGS NATIONAL ACQUISITION BRANCH 205 NATIONAL CENTER 12201 SUNRISE VALLEY DRIVE RESTON VA 20192 US
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- G16PS00159
- Archive Date
- 1/29/2016
- Point of Contact
- Edgar, Becky
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The US Geological Survey (USGS) is seeking the procurement of the operation of a NADP/NTN wet atmospheric monitoring station near Greenwood, Texas. Operation requires weekly site visits to the site to collect, process, and ship the precipitation sample, collect, process and transmit associated data with the site including the precipitation gage record and perform routine instrument checks, maintenance and repairs as needed. NADP site operations is described in detail in the document National Trends Network Site Operations Manual at http://nadp.sws.uiuc.edu/lib/manuals/opman.pdf Period of Performance will be 2/1/2016 through 1/31/2017. The USGS Office of Water Quality requires a provider of atmospheric deposition station operation services for a cooperatively supported station between the USGS and the site owner and operator in support of the interagency National Atmospheric Deposition Program, National Trends Network (NADP-NTN) The USGS is aware of no other source that can provide the above. Therefore, it intends to make an award to Dale Burks, unless it is contacted by any who believes they have obtained similar technical expertise and can provide the same service. Vendors are invited to contact the Contract Specialist, Becky Edgar via email at bedgar@usgs.gov no later than 12:00 PM EST, Monday, January 25, 2016 with an affirmative answer. SOLE SOURCE JUSTIFICATION STATES THE FOLLOWING PART: The following information is provided to demonstrate the proposed contractor ¿s unique qualifications: The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Water Mission Area, Office of Water Quality requests a sole source acquisition with the following provider of atmospheric deposition station operation services for a cooperatively supported station between the USGS and the site owner and operator in support of the interagency National Atmospheric Deposition Program, National Trends Network (NADP-NTN): Mr. Burks is a retired professor who is qualified based on his education and technical scientific experience. Faculty members have the experience, knowledge, and expertise complete the requirements without training or time spent in learning how to operate the equipment. It is essential that this requirement be continued without loss of data due to the continuous record requirement for site operation. If a site is shut down temporarily, the value of the entire multi-decade data record from the site becomes impaired and loses value for statistical trend analysis. The monitoring site and analytical laboratory are located on U.S. Forest Service property; LBJ Grasslands. USGS is responsible for the operation of nine atmospheric deposition sites where the land and the site is owned by another organization, agency or individual and are in restricted scientific research areas, TX56 is one of these nine sites. It is a mutually beneficial scientific and technical partnership between this organization that has purview over the site location and desire the information collected from this site. USGS needs information gathered from this site as part of a national network for national-scale measurement of the status and trends in wet deposition. Moving the site would result in a break of the long-term environment monitoring record, i.e. a new site location data would not be comparable to the previous site, which typically has continuous monitoring data back to the early 1980 ¿s. Mr. Burks is the only known and available source qualified to collect this information on atmospheric deposition in this remote area. The NADP is a public, nonprofit, unincorporated, interstate association of parties interested in atmospheric deposition and its effects. It is structured as a cooperative program that represents coordinated efforts of many federal, state, academic, and private organizations and individuals to operate monitoring sites, report data, and oversee research activities related to atmospheric deposition. Membership in NADP is open to individuals and institutions interested in participating in any aspect of atmospheric deposition monitoring and/or research stemming from NADP data. This organizational structure is consistent with State Agricultural Experiment Station (SAES) Guidelines for Multi-state Research Activities. The contracts the USGS seeks to award represent partnerships to support sites in the most efficient manner with organizations and individuals that own and control the local site locations. Under the interagency National Acidic Precipitation Assessment Program established in 1981, the USGS is the designated lead agency for the monitoring of atmospheric deposition and NADP is the operational organization through which the USGS and other participating organizations accomplish this national-scale monitoring in the most efficient and cost-effective manner. Where a USGS-supported site can be potentially operated by any number of interested individuals or organizations, we offer those site duties via a competitive process. This document describes the situation where we have sites that cannot be competed due to the cooperative partnership aspect of these sites location and ownership. No other source is known in the Greenwood, Texas, area that is qualified to complete the requirement.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOI/USGS/USGS/G16PS00159/listing.html)
- Record
- SN03992444-W 20160116/160115083454-8f0a64b5d28e8064d52d885b39f75d5f (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)
| FSG Index | This Issue's Index | Today's FBO Daily Index Page |