SPECIAL NOTICE
B -- Notice of intent to negotiate a sole source contract.
- Notice Date
- 9/5/2002
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Western Administrative Support Center, 7600 Sand Point Way, Northeast, Seattle, WA, 98115-6349
- ZIP Code
- 98115-6349
- Solicitation Number
- WASC-2-1654
- Point of Contact
- Randall Brown, Purchasing Agent, Phone (206) 526-6226, Fax (206) 526-6025,
- E-Mail Address
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randal.w.brown@noaa.gov
- Description
- NOAA intends to evaluate the suitability of molecular biomarker approaches for documenting the health of key residents of the nearshore coastal environments of Kachemak Bay and Prince William Sound, Alaska. Currently, NOAA oversees a long-term intertidal monitoring program in the spill-affected region to document effects of oil and oil cleanup activities and to provide fundamental insights into ecological recovery from both natural and human-induced disturbance. The molecular biomarker approach may complement or augment other common monitoring tools such as chemical analysis and visual estimation of abundance and diversity. Envirtue Biotechnologies has developed a proprietary system for the analysis of environmental samples to determine physical and biological stressors in plants and animals. This system, the environmental Molecular Diagnostic System (EMDS) is a patent pending approach that for the first time integrates cellar and molecular biology that for the first time integrates cellular and molecular biology with ecology and environmental science. EMDS examines the health of an organism by detecting changes at the molecular and cellular levels that reflect responses of known physiological significance. EMDS system can detect the presence and concentration of specific proteins and cellular molecules that are physiologically relevant to the health of a particular organism. This is a simplified acquisition with an estimated value of less than $100,000.
- Record
- SN00158323-W 20020907/020905213259 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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