SOLICITATION NOTICE
20 -- Charter for a Research Vessel with Ice Breaking Capabilities (RVIB)
- Notice Date
- 8/7/2010
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 483112
— Deep Sea Passenger Transportation
- Contracting Office
- National Science Foundation, Division of Acquisition and Cooperative Support, DACS, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Room475, Arlington, Virginia, 22230
- ZIP Code
- 22230
- Solicitation Number
- RVIB-2010
- Archive Date
- 10/16/2010
- Point of Contact
- Pamela Franzel, Phone: (703) 292-5398
- E-Mail Address
-
pfranzel@nsf.gov
(pfranzel@nsf.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Raytheon Technical Services Company LLC, Polar Services, (RPSC) is soliciting proposals towards securing a charter for a Research Vessel with Ice Breaking capability (RVIB) to operate in the Southern Oceans around Antarctica and other locations in support of the United States Antarctic Program (USAP). RPSC presently charters and provides science support staffing on the ARSV LAURENCE M. GOULD and the RVIB NATHANIEL B. PALMER for the National Science Foundation (NSF), an agency of the United States Government. On behalf of the NSF, RPSC is pursuing the charter of a vessel to meet the oceanographic and logistics support requirements of the USAP. The vessel is to be chartered for a period of five (5) years with options for up to another five (5) years. The purpose of this announcement is to seek interested parties in industry capable of supplying a vessel to continue to provide services currently supported by the RVIB NATHANIEL B. PALMER. RPSC will be seeking proposals that include the building of a new ship or the reconditioning and/or overhaul of an existing similar classed vessel. The vessel will be required to operate frequently in the often extremely stormy waters south of Cape Horn in the Drake Passage with regular operations south of 60 degrees South Latitude and in sea ice to support oceanographic research and USAP logistics for Palmer Station and other field locations. The vessel must be seaworthy, fully found, appropriately classed, be able to provide a stable platform from which to conduct scientific research and comfortable enough to safely support personnel at sea for extended periods. Such remote operations necessarily require a reliable and well fitted vessel. Operations in support of scientific research will be the key evaluation criteria within the technical requirements of the Request for proposal (RFP). To receive a full RFP package, please contact Jim Weber at RPSC below. Proposals are due to RPSC by 1 October, 2010 and should be submitted to: Raytheon Technical Services Company LLC Polar Services 7400 S. Tucson Way Centennial, CO 80112-3938 Attn: Mr. Jim Weber 720-568-2343 Office 303-790-9129 Fax James.weber.contractor@usap.gov
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