SOLICITATION NOTICE
58 -- Radio-telemetry tags to correlate movements of ind
- Notice Date
- 6/20/2017
- Notice Type
- Synopsis
- NAICS
- 334290
— Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Rgn 3<br />5600 American Blvd West Suite<br />Bloomington<br />MN<br />55437-1458<br />US<br />
- ZIP Code
- 55437
- Solicitation Number
- F17PS00806
- Response Due
- 6/20/2017
- Archive Date
- 7/5/2017
- Point of Contact
- Clearwater, Becky
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), Region 3 Contracting and General Services Division, intends to award a firm fixed-price, sole source contract to Lotek Wireless, 115 Pony Drive, Ontario, Canada, for the purchase of radiotelemetry tags. FWS intends to award this requirement as a sole source to Lotek Wireless since using the same equipment is essential for maintaining the continuity of data collection and analysis shared with a consortium of partners by the Region 3 Avian Radar Team. This team provides documentation and research into migratory dynamics of birds and bats across the Great Lakes region. These data are critical for understanding conservation threats to migrating birds and bats around the substantial barrier the Great Lakes present to a large proportion of migrants in North America. By attaching individually identifiable radiotelemetry tags to known species of birds and bats, FWS can correlate these species movements with major or minor pulses of targets detected on the radar and determine timing windows for certain migrants. Additionally, transmitter mass must be minimized in order to prevent injury to the birds and bats that these devices are attached to during migration crossings of Lake Erie. The weight of the transmitters must not exceed 1/2 - 1 gram and the battery life of the transmitters must be realized for up to 2 weeks. The use of LoTek radiotelemetry transmitters ensures consistent data collection in the MOTUS radiotelemetry Network. This opportunity affords FWS the ability to share data with other interested parties and increase the sample of tagged birds and bats which FWS can work with. By combining radiotelemtry data with radar data, FWS can collect highly detailed, species-specific information on migrants that will help FWS better understand the migration dynamics found and make the radar data which has already been collected more informative. NOTE: THIS NOTICE WAS NOT POSTED TO FEDBIZOPPS ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (20-JUN-2017); HOWEVER, IT DID APPEAR IN THE FEDBIZOPPS FTP FEED ON THIS DATE. PLEASE CONTACT 877-472-3779 or fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
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- Record
- SN04550463-F 20170622/170620234248 (fbodaily.com)
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