SOURCES SOUGHT
58 -- PIT TAG SPILLWAY INTERROGATION
- Notice Date
- 5/31/2006
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 334511
— Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing
- 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
- WRAD-060003480
- Response Due
- 6/7/2006
- Archive Date
- 9/30/2006
- Description
- NOTICE: THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ONLY. The information provided in response to this notice will assist the Government in determining the extent of the business size and socio-economic market for the type of work described herein. All firms qualified, capable, and interested, without restriction to size standards, should submit the requested information. The intent of the announcement is to identify sources that are qualified business concerns able to address the technical feasibility of developing and deploying a PIT-tag system capable of interrogating tagged salmonids passing dams via spillbays with and without RSWs. The spillway at Bonneville Dam located on the lower Columbia River near Stevenson, Washington (none of the spillbays at this dam has an RSW). The general width of each spillbay is 50 ft with water velocity exceeding 60 ft/per sec under the vertical rising spill gates under certain conditions. The spill gates typically are opened 2-5 feet during spill. Note the fish capture velocity is set at 15 ft/sec. Also, RSWs have been or are being installed at Lower Granite (2001), Ice Harbor (2005), and Lower Monumental (2007) Dams on the lower Snake River. Little Goose Dam is scheduled for RSW installation in 2009. Since they fit into spillbays, the width of RSWs is basically 50 feet and their downstream exit opening is approximately 3 feet high. Given that the RSW is still being designed for Little Goose Dam, this provides an opportunity to investigate the feasibility of integrating a detection system into that RSW design. General information regarding RSWs, artist drawings, and photographs of the installed RSWs can be obtained via the internet at http://www.nww.usace.army.mil/spillway_weir/default.html. The following are requirements and factors that must be addressed and/or considered. 1) The general width of each spillbay is 50 feet with water velocity exceeding 60 feet/ sec under the vertical rising spill gates under certain conditions. For this proposal, the design criterion for the spillgate is an opening of from 2 to 5 feet. The height of the RSW opening is variable and ranges from 3 to 10+ feet; 2) Tag-reading efficiency for each spillbay at the dam will be variable. Some of the factors creating the variability include spillway gate opening, structure vibration, radio-frequency interference, acoustic interference, number and type of antennas deployed at each spillway, read distance of the antennas, water velocity, and fish orientation. At this time, no tag-reading efficiency goal for the installed system has been established by the fisheries agencies; 3) The tag to be used with any proposed system (i.e., spillbays and RSWs) must be capable of being interrogated using the existing full-duplex PIT-tag infrastructure that has been deployed throughout the CRB. If pertinent, address how the existing system would need to be modified to accommodate this requirement. The proposed system must also be capable of interrogating 134.2-kHz FDX-B ISO PIT tags. The maximum size tag that will be acceptable for this application is 19-mm long by 3-mm diameter with a weight not to exceed 0.3 g in air. However, smaller and lighter tags would be preferable and will be looked upon favorably. A discussion of the similarities and differences in information format (e.g., tag telegram), if any, between what is presently being captured with PIT-tag interrogation systems deployed in the CRB and the new system should be addressed. The data output from the interrogation system must be capable of being integrated into the PIT-tag database (PTAGIS) maintained by the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission. It is anticipated that a firm-fixed price contract for the Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Western Region Acquisition Division (WRAD) will result. The North American Industry Classification Code (NAICS) is 334511 with a size standard of 750 employees. All contractors doing business with the Government are now required to be registered with the Central Contractor Registry (CCR). NOTE: THIS SYNOPSIS IS NOT CONSIDERED A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL BUT A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ONLY. No solicitation document is available. No contract will be awarded on the basis of responses received to this notice. Interested firms should submit in writing, its name, address, point of contact, telephone number, business type and size, and a brief narrative regarding its capability to provide the required services. The following is the information that must be addressed in the response to assist the Government in determining the availability of qualified small business concerns for the requirement: (1) Demonstrate relevant experience, expertise, and qualifications of key personnel in the basic design system and deployment of the system. It is the Government?s intent to analyze responses from firms which can operate in the areas of consideration as specified above. Detailed information must be submitted by mail to the U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA, WRAD, 7600 Sand Point Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98115-6349, ATTN: Judi M. Jzyk, or to the email address below by 12:00 noon, June 7, 2006. Questions of any nature may be addressed in writing to judi.m.jzyk@noaa.gov. NO TELEPHONE INQUIRIES WILL BE HONORED. Submission information will be reviewed by the Government to determine the level of competition, i.e., small business set-aside, full and open competition.
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