SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- Offshore Environmental Cost Model and Market Simulation Model Upgrade Study
- Notice Date
- 3/26/2009
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541690
— Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Procurement Operations, MMS Procurement Branch, HQ381 Elden Street, MS 2102HerndonVA20170-4817US
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- M09PS00038
- Response Due
- 4/8/2009
- Archive Date
- 5/8/2009
- Point of Contact
- Bridge, Debra M. 703-787-1814, bridged@mms.gov<br />
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- PLEASE READ THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY AS IT CONSTITUTES THE ONLY NOTICE THAT WILL BE ISSUED. The U. S. Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service (MMS) intends to competitively award one contract to upgrade two economic models used in planning for the development of Federal offshore energy resources: the Offshore Environmental Cost Model (OECM) and the Market Simulation Model (MktSim). The anticipated period of performance will be 18 months from the effective date of the contract. The applicable NAICS Code is 541690, and the work is multi-disciplinary. The MMS is responsible for managing Federal offshore energy resources. The MMS uses the OECM to estimate the environmental and social costs of natural gas and oil extraction activities on the Federal Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) and MktSim to determine the substitution effects of energy alternatives to OCS oil and natural gas production, as well as to estimate the consumer surplus value of OCS oil and gas extraction activities. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The Department of the Interior is required to keep in place at all times a 5-year schedule (5-year program) of proposed OCS oil and gas lease auctions specifying, as accurately as possible, the size, timing, and location of each lease sale. As part of the 2-3 year iterative process of public comment, analysis, and decision, MMS conducts a cost-benefit (net benefits) analysis of each proposed 5-year schedule for the Secretarys consideration. A part of this analysis is estimation of Net Environmental and Social Costs (ESC) imposed on society by the exploration, development, production, and transportation activities necessary to get to market those oil and gas resources anticipated to be discovered and produced under each proposal. Using MMS-developed exploration & development scenarios and production profiles, MktSim estimates the volume of each other energy source (increased imports, coal, alternative energy, reduced consumption etc.) the economy would require in the absence of the new lease sales in the 5-year proposal (essentially, the No Action Alternative in the programmatic Environmental Impact Statement). The OECM estimates the ESC anticipated from OCS oil and gas activities resulting from the 5-year proposal as well as the ESC of the energy alternatives/substitutions likely to result from not approving a new 5-year program. Subtracting the latter from the former produces the Net Environmental and Social Costs. MktSim also estimates the consumer surplus benefits of the activities anticipated under the 5-year proposal. The purpose of the contract would be to completely revise both models and all associated data. HOW TO COMPETE FOR THIS CONTRACT: If you are interested in participating in this acquisition, please send your organizations name, point of contact, address, telephone and fax numbers, email address and DUNS Number via email to debra.bridge@mms.gov or via U.S. Mail to Debra Bridge, Minerals Management Service, Procurement Operations Branch, MS-2101, 381 Elden Street, Herndon, Virginia 20170, by 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 8, 2009. Those organizations expressing an interest in this opportunity will receive a copy of the complete solicitation upon issuance. Reference Solicitation No. M09PS00038 on all correspondence. TELEPHONE INQUIRES ARE STRONGLY DISCOURAGED.
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