SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- Spawning Ground Survey Marblemount Hatchery area for Spring Chinook Salmon
- Notice Date
- 6/3/2008
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 561990
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- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Western Region Acquisition Division, 7600 Sand Point Way, Northeast, Seattle, Washington, 98115-6349
- ZIP Code
- 98115-6349
- Solicitation Number
- WRAD-8-37643
- Archive Date
- 7/1/2008
- Point of Contact
- Melvin N. Fondue, Phone: (206) 526-6043
- E-Mail Address
-
melvin.n.fondue@noaa.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Notice of Intent to negoiate a sole source contract withSkagit System Cooperative for the office of NOAA, Northwest Regional Office of National Marine Fisheries Service located in Seattle, Washington for spawning ground survey Marblemount hatchery area for spring Chinook salmon. Spawning grounds survey/s will be conducted in streams that are likely to contain hatchery spring Chinook Strays. Surveys will begin after July 15,2008 in the lower Cascade, and in other areas after Chinook are seen on the spawning grounds in the Cascade. Normally, the snouts of CWTed fish are sent to the state tag lab in Olympia, WA, where it can take months for them to be processed and the data made available. In order to quickly determine the age and origin of tagged fish samples during surveys, the SRSC team will extract and read the tags. This will most likely be about 50 -I00 tagged snouts, The CWT results, along with mark and scale information, will be used to determine the composition of the Chinook that were samples. Using the redd counts from spawning ground surveys, the SRCS team will estimate the total number of Chinook that spawned in the surveyed areas by multiplying the number of redds constructed by 2.5. They will then apportion that number into hatchery, wild, marked, unmarked, and age groups and release stage by multiplying the Chinook spawner number by the relative percentage of each attribute in the carcass samples. Using those component breakouts, the hatchery rack return, the wi Id escapement number, and the SRSC team can caleu late the percentage of the hatchery return, by return year and by brood year, that stray to the spawning grounds, the percentage of the wild spawners that are hatchery origin fish, and the total escapement of hatchery springs. The objectives are: to tag-sample at least 10% of the Chinook spawners in the vicinity of the Marblemount Hatchery during the spawning timing of spring Chinook salmon. Estimate the number of hatchery stray spawners by age and release stage, and estimate the total number of strays to within a c.v. of + 15%. Calculate the hatchery stray rate, and compare it to the rate estimate of2006 and 2007. Sample sufficient Chinook carcasses in the vicinity of the Skagit Marblemount Hatchery (i.e., the lower Cascade, upper Cascade, and mainstream Skagit upstream of the Sauk). Estimate the number of Skagit hatchery Spring Chinook that spawn in the wild by age and release stage. Using the number of hatchery strays spawners, and the rack return to Marblemount Hatchery, calculate the stray rate, overall and by age and release stage. The Skagit River System Cooperative (SRSC) provides natural resource management services for the Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe and the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community. On behalf ofthese two sovereign nations, SRSC works to actively improve fisheries management within their usual and accustomed fishing areas. These areas include the Skagit and Samish River basins, and were ceded to the United States through treaties signed in 1855. Fisheries management carried out by SRSC includes harvest and hatchery management, research, environmental review, habitat restoration, and a range of other activities. The Salmon Recovery program at the Skagit River System Cooperative provides the technical analysis for tribal and state fisheries managers used to negotiate annual salmon fishing plans and long-term salmon recovery and management plans. This is accomplished by developing and negotiating annual forecasted abundances of Skagit River system salmonids. Salmon Recovery also proposes and oversees the research needed to develop these plans and responds to public misconceptions about Indian fishing. Based on the United States Chinook Technical Committee (USCTC) review and recommendation, the Commissioners recommended a series of proposals for funding, including a proposal from the Skagit River System Cooperative (SRSC) to document the staying rate of Chinook salmon returning to the Marblemount Hatchery on the Skagit River. This information will improve escapement estimates to CTC standards and improve the data used in analytical methods that support Chinook salmon abundance based management under the Pacific Salmon Treaty. The SRSC conducted a pilot study in 2006 that found that the undocumented straying rate was a significant problem and this experience will allow them to design an effective project for the 2008 season. The Skagit River Chinook stocks are listed as endangered under the ESA and the SRSC holds the required permit to conduct research on them. The project leaders (see below) are experts in their field and their collective experience and the other factors identified above are required for this project to be successful, justifying a sole source contract for this work to the Skagit River System Cooperative (SRSC). Interested parties must respond to this announcement within fifteen (15) calendar days of its publication. All responses must be in writing and may be faxed to 206-526-6025 or email (melvin.n.fondue@noaa.gov). This is a sinplified acquisition with an estimated value of less than $100,000. **** The Westren Regional Acquisition Division, requires that all contractors doing business with this Acquisition Office be registered with the Central Contractor Registey (CCR) as of October 1, 2003. After this date, NO award can be made unless the vendor is registered in CCR. For additional information and to register in CCR please access the following web site: http//www.ccr.gov. In order to register with CCR and be eligible to receive an award from this Acquisition Office, all offerors must have a Dun & Bradstreet Number (DUN). A DUN number may be acquried free of charge by contacting Dun & Bradstreet on line at www.dnb/eupdate of by phone at (800) 333-0505
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- Address: 7600 Sand Point Way N.E., Seattle, Washington, 98115, United States
- Zip Code: 98115
- Zip Code: 98115
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