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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF JUNE 10, 2010 FBO #3120
SOURCES SOUGHT

A -- Request for Information

Notice Date

6/8/2010
 

Notice Type

Sources Sought
 

NAICS

541712 — Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
 

Contracting Office

Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Eastern Region Acquisition Division, Norfolk Federal Building, 200 Granby Street, Norfolk, Virginia, 23510
 

ZIP Code

23510
 

Solicitation Number

NFFM7330-10-12513
 

Archive Date

6/30/2010
 

Point of Contact

Brian P. O'Boyle, Phone: 757-441-3839
 

E-Mail Address

Brian.oboyle@noaa.gov
(Brian.oboyle@noaa.gov)
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ONLY - Solicitations are not available at this time. Requests for a solicitation will not receive a response. This notice does not constitute a commitment by the United States Government. The Eastern Acquisition Division (EAD) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Norfolk, VA is exploring sources, on behalf of the Social Science Branch of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) of the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) for a Performance Measure Studies, Well-Being Analysis, Community Cluster Analysis and Social Indicators Study: Improving the Conduct of Social Impact Assessments (SIAS) in the Northeast Region. Background: Part one: There is a need to develop performance measures for fisheries. One part of this is creating qualitative and quantitative measures of social well-being and job satisfaction. The SIA Conceptual Model (Pollnac et al. 2006[2008]) uses well-being as the composite social indicator for showing positive or negative outcomes from policy and other events. One key aspect of well-being is job satisfaction (Pollnac and Ruíz-Stout 1977; Pollnac and Poggie 1988, 2006, 2008; Pollnac et al. 2001; Pollnac et al. 2006[2008]; Westwood 2008). An in-person survey of well-being, job satisfaction and sector participation of individual and former fishermen and vessel owners is already underway in New England, along with the collection of an associated subset of oral histories designed to assess fishing family, household and community well-being (re. Colburn and Clay 2009). This proposal intends to build upon the experience with the stated project to further streamline and fine tune the survey and associated oral histories and then implement them in the Mid-Atlantic. Further, any performance measures developed must have industry buy-in if they are to be effectively used in analyzing and arguing for or against specific management measures (Hartley and Robertson 2006, Kaplan and McCay 2004). A project conducted by the Gulf of Maine Research institute through a CINAR grant has already assessed New England industry views of NEFSC's newly proposed social and economic performance measures. The addition of selected questions to the well-being survey will allow a parallel assessment of industry views in the Mid-Atlantic. Part 2: In related background, at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) we have profiled 177 communities from Maine through North Carolina (Clay et al. 2008; Colburn et al. In prep.). As a foundation for the Northeast profiles, we created the Social Science Database (SSD). It combines several NMFS Northeast data sets, including landings and value, permit, and processing data, with US Census data. The SSD includes all communities that appeared in the NMFS databases for any year between 1997 and 2006. This encompassed 1,835 communities from which the 177 were chosen for profiling based on a set of seven indicators (Colburn et al. In prep.). Based on the full SSD, taxonomy of fishing communities was developed using multivariate analysis (Smith et al. In prep.). This reduced the original 1,835 individual communities to forty clusters of communities manifesting similar characteristics. In terms of SIA, this method makes it possible to narrow in on key characteristics of sub-sets of communities within clusters and winnow down the number of communities for which in-depth analysis is needed. This proposal calls for additional analyses to create sub-taxonomies of communities based on their relative dependence on specific species belonging to each Northeast Fishery Management Plan (FMP). This should further facilitate rapid yet scientifically defensible selection of subsets of communities for targeting in SIAs. Part 3: Building further on the SSD, a project to develop quantitative social indicators of sustainability and resilience/vulnerability for coastal fishing communities is being jointly funded by the Northeast and Southeast Regions. These indicators will be constructed using secondary data. NOAA is concerned with "risks to sustainability" of fishing communities (Draft NOAA Catch Share Policy, retrieved at: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/sfa/domes_fish/catchshare/docs/draft_noaa_cs_policy.pdf (accessed 23 March 2010), p. 6) and recent fall 2009 Northeast and National workshops on social and economic performance measures for catch shares have highlighted the area of resilience/vulnerability as critical. Mike Jepson (of the Southeast Regional Office) and Steve Jacobs have done a considerable amount of work on social indicators of this sort based on secondary data (Jacob et al. In prep.; Jacob and Jepson 2009; Jepson and Jacob 2007). Lisa Colburn of NEFSC has been working on issues of gentrification in coastal communities since 2004 (Colburn 2007a, 2007b) and in the summer of 2008 hired a Hollings student who began work on gentrification indices based on secondary data. This proposal is a cooperative effort with the Southeast Region that will enable more objective inter- and intra-regional analysis of social impacts. Primary Objectives: (a) The core of the in-person survey of well-being, job satisfaction and sector participation of individual and former fishermen and vessel owners for the Mid-Atlantic would remain identical to the current New England version, thus allowing it to be part of the time series that these two baseline efforts will begin. The Mid-Atlantic survey, as the New England one, will be accompanied by carefully associated oral histories to capture the fishing family, household and community aspects of well-being not covered in the survey of individual and former fishermen and vessel owners. In addition, because this will be a streamlined version of the New England survey (which already asks some management and sector-specific questions), it will be possible to add some additional questions relative to key fishery performance measures as viewed by industry members - while still keeping the survey to approximately 30 minutes. This section of the survey would parallel an industry outreach effort on fishery performance measures that was completed in New England in April 2010 by the Gulf of Maine Research institute (GMRI) under a CINAR grant. (b) An updated run will be conducted of the original overall cluster analysis of all Northeast Region communities in the latest version of the SSD. Following on from this separate runs will be conducted on sub-sets of communities that are associated with each of the current Northeast Region FMPs. (c) A standardized set of social indicators to measure resilience/vulnerability, sustainability and other indicators (e.g., gentrification) in the Northeast will be developed that is complementary to such a dataset for the Southeast, and actual indicators will be created and analyzed. As part of this process, a data management protocol will be developed in conjunction with NEFSC and NMFS Southeast Region personnel, to allow data portability and comparisons across regions. The DOC/NOAA is seeking the following information: Potential Respondents shall describe how they would propose to successfully perform these services, assuming that all services provided by Respondent would be accomplished in accordance with all applicable U.S. laws, regulations, policies, and procedures. In addition, Respondents shall indicate any relevant experience in the Fisheries industry. Respondents shall not be obligated to provide the services described herein and it is understood by the United States Government that the cost estimates provided as a result of this request are "best" estimates only. Note: This announcement is a Request for Information and no contract will be awarded pursuant to this announcement. The requested information is for planning purposes and does not constitute a commitment, implied, or otherwise, that a procurement action will be issued nor will the Government pay for the information solicited. The response date for this market research is June 15, 2010 at 4:00 P.M. No collect calls will be accepted. All responses to this RFI may be submitted via e-mail to Brian O'Boyle, Contract Specialist, at Brian.OBoyle@noaa.gov courtesy copy to Brendon Johnson, Contracting Officer, at Brendon.Johnson@noaa.gov, and with a hard copy to the U. S. Department of Commerce/NOAA/ERAD Norfolk Federal Building 200 Granby Street, Room 815 Norfolk, VA 23510. Note: The phone number for the Contract Specialist is 757.441.3839 and the fax number is 757.664.3636. NO TELEPHONE RESPONSES WILL BE ACCEPTED.
 

Web Link

FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOC/NOAA/EASC/NFFM7330-10-12513/listing.html)
 

Place of Performance

Address: SOCIAL SCIENCES BRANCH/F/NEC33, NOAA/NMFS, 166 WATER STREET, WOODS HOLE, MA 02543, WOODS HOLE, Massachusetts, 02543, United States

Zip Code: 02543
 

Record

SN02171400-W 20100610/100608235119-8aaddd68a151067c3997ec0ead9259b3 (fbodaily.com)
 

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