SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- DEVELOP A MONITORING STRATEGY, DATE MANAGEMENT, AND ANALYSIS PLAN & PRODUCT FOR AN INTEGRATED STATUS & EFFECTIVENESS MONITORING PROGRAM
- Notice Date
- 3/30/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- 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-6-0493
- Response Due
- 4/14/2006
- Archive Date
- 4/29/2006
- Description
- This requirement is being procured and an award will be made in accordance with FAR Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures. The office of NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Northwest Fisheries Science Center located in Seattle, WA intend to procure on a sole source basis with Carol Volk for the development of a monitoring strategy, data management, and analysis plan and product for an integrated status and effectiveness monitoring program in the John Day River Basin. Background and Objectives The Center provides scientific and technical support to NMFS for the management, conservation, and wise-use of the Northwest region?s marine and anadromous resources. To address some of these needs the Conservation Biology Division formed the Mathematical Biology and Systems Monitoring Program to develop, in tandem with the existing Salmon Science Programs and Salmon Recovery Planning Teams, quantitative tools for assessing population and habitat status and recovery potential and progress. One of the major projects undertaken by this program is the development of a large-scale comprehensive monitoring program to be implemented in three Columbia River sub-basins. The primary objective of this project is the development of a rule set to guide the implementation of large-scale monitoring and evaluation programs across the Columbia River basin. The project will accomplish this goal through the quantitative assessment of status and effectiveness monitoring and evaluation approaches. The component of the overall project described herein specifically addresses management and analysis of data collected from the John Day, Wenatchee, and Salmon basins and the development of an Implementation Plan for Research, Monitoring and Evaluation (RME) projects in the John Day River (Oregon) basin. The work is in support of the development of habitat and population status monitoring guidelines for the Bonneville Power Administration?s (BPA) Environmental, Fish and Wildlife (EFW) Program Mainstem / Systemwide Province Provincial Review Process and parallel efforts to define the status and effectiveness monitoring requirements of the 2000, 2004 NMFS Federal Columbia River Power System Biological Opinions. While these collections of monitoring protocols and program designs have been developed by regional fisheries managers, the program as a whole has never been adequately tested in the Columbia River basin. To meet the status and effectiveness monitoring components of these needs, a proposal was initially drafted and submitted in response to the programmatic solicitations of the Mainstem/Systemwide Provincial Review. The resulting proposed status and effectiveness monitoring program seeks to implement landscape and reach scale habitat and population status monitoring in parallel with watershed-scale habitat restoration action effectiveness monitoring for anadromous salmonid populations of the Columbia River basin. This work has been funded through BPA?s EFW program, with the NOAA NWFSC serving as the primary contractor for this work (BPA Project #2003-017: Integrated Status and Effectiveness Monitoring Program). The work required under this requisition is a subcontract to perform specific analysis elements of the overall project and detailed coordination efforts in the John Day River basin. Carol Volk has extensive experience working with salmon and steelhead populations in the Columbia River Basin and western Olympic peninsula regions. Of particular importance is that for the last two years Dr. Volk has been employed with the project in question as a lead ISEMP staff member on the development of the Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation (RME) programs in the John Day and Wenatchee River basins and as such, brings a unique set of experiences and personal contacts to this work that will provide critical continuity of personnel and work-flow. The period of performance will be from date of award through 12/31/2006. This notice may represent the only official notice. This is a simplified acquisition with an estimated value of less than $50,000
- Place of Performance
- Address: Seattle, WA
- Record
- SN01017859-W 20060401/060330211917 (fbodaily.com)
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