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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF AUGUST 24, 2008 FBO #2463
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B -- Development of a precise and accurate method to determine age of Bowhead Whales - Statement of Work

Notice Date

8/22/2008
 

Notice Type

Statement of Work
 

NAICS

541990 — All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
 

Contracting Office

Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Acquisition and Grants Office, SSMC4 - Room 7601/OFA61, 1305 East West Highway, 7th Floor, Silver Spring, Maryland, 20910
 

ZIP Code

20910
 

Solicitation Number

NFFKPR00-8-43522
 

Archive Date

9/20/2008
 

Point of Contact

Gina E Lee,, Phone: 301-713-0820 x208
 

E-Mail Address

gina.e.lee@noaa.gov
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with FAR Parts 12 and 13, as supplemented with additional information in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotations are being requested and a separate solicitation will not be issued. Solicitation Number NFFKPR00-8-43522 is being issued as a Request for Quotation. This acquisition is being solicited using Simplified Acquisition Procedures. This acquisition is set aside for Small Business. The associated NAICS code and small business size standard is 541990 and $6.5M. The U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Marine Mammal Division has a requirement to provide the following: The utility of existing age estimates for whales is hampered by their lack of precision and, in some cases accuracy. This acquisition is to refine techniques and provide age estimations using tissues from bowhead whale eyes acquired during subsistence hunts by Alaska Natives. The contractor shall 1) develop and validate technique(s) to do age estimation in bowhead whale tissues; 2) use those techniques to estimate ages on specific animals of interest as determined by the biologists at the North Slope Borough in conjunction with an experienced modeler, and 3) model the relationship between age and racemization rate). The contractor shall include the appropriate controls, quality assurance, and optimization techniques assessment in all analyses and include these measures in the progress and final reports. Deliverables: 1) Development of techniques, optimization of the techniques for specific tissues and development of the quality assurance standards for the analyses; 2) Analyze the tissues of specific whales (n-25) (to be defined by the North Slope Borough biologists) to estimate the ages (utilizing the appropriate standards) and provide the North Slope Borough, Department of Wildlife Management and NMFS with those age estimations to become part of the individual record for each harvested animal; 3) Development and refinement of an appropriate model relating age as estimated by the above mentioned methods and size of bowhead whales (and with other age estimation data if such data exists); 4) Report on aging of all samples, the methods including validation and quality assurance factors, and on the evaluation and applicability of the technique for assessment in bowheads and other mysticetes to the North Slope Borough and NMFS; and 5) Submission of a paper on these techniques in bowhead whales for peer reviewed publication. At the end of the development and validation, the contractor shall provide a Final report documenting and describing the validation and techniques. At the end of the analyses of tissues from individual whales, the contractor shall provide the North Slope Borough and NMFS with age estimation for individual animal records. The final report will include #4 above. A copy of any papers submitted will also be submitted with the final report. The resulting purchase order shall be awarded on a best value basis and will be firm fixed price. Period of Performance: Date of Award to September 30, 2010. Best value evaluation factors include the following: 1) Technical Approach - The likelihood of effectively meeting the requirements; 2) Past Performance - The relevance and quality of prior performance; and 3) Price - The amount, realism and consistency of the evaluated price. The evaluation shall be based on use of the adjectival scheme as follows: Outstanding (O) - Conspicuously striking in eminence; Good (G) - Beneficial and worthwhile; sound and valid; Adequate (A) - Reasonably sufficient and suitable; Marginal (M) - Minimally suitable at the lower limit. The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2005-26. The provisions and clauses may be downloaded at http://www.arnet.gov/far. The following provisions and clauses shall apply to this solicitation: FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors - Commercial, FAR 52.212-2, Evaluation - Commercial Items - The Government will award a purchase order resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. FAR 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certificates - Commercial Item, FAR 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions - Commercial Items, FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders - Commercial Items. FAR 52.219-6, Notice of Total Small Business Set-Aside, and Alternate II; FAR 52.222-3, Convict Labor; FAR 52.222-21, Prohibition of Segregated Facilities; FAR 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity; FAR 52.222-36, Affirmative Action for Workers with Disabilities; FAR 52.222-50, Combating Trafficking in Persons; FAR 52.225-13, Restrictions on Certain Foreign Purchases; FAR 52.232-33, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer-Central Contractor Registration; FAR 52.239-1, Privacy or Security Safeguards; FAR 52.222-41, Service Contract Act; and FAR 52.222-42, Statement of Equivalent Rates for Federal Hires; FAR 52.232-9, Limitation on Withholding of Payments. All responsible sources that can meet the requirements and provide the items as listed above may respond to this solicitation by submitting a quotation addressed to Gina E. Lee, Purchasing Agent, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, 1305 East West Highway, Suite 7144, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910, to be received no later than September 5, 2008 at 12:00pm. The Government reserves the right to make one award or no award at all as a result of this solicitation. Responses are to be emailed to Gina.E.Lee@noaa,gov. Award is anticipated on September 22, 2008.
 

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Document(s)

Statement of Work
 

File Name: Development of a Precise and Accurate method to determine age of Bowhead Whales (NFFKPR00-8-43522.SOW.docx)

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Place of Performance

Address: Silver Spring, Maryland, 20910, United States

Zip Code: 20910
 

Record

SN01648683-W 20080824/080822222541-c1d0fbb6d0d45e7d98da5432c04b8abf (fbodaily.com)
 

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