SPECIAL NOTICE
66 -- LOW- FREQUENCY LONG-LIFE UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC PINGERS
- Notice Date
- 3/22/2011
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 334290
— Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing
- 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
- WAD-11-0186-NFFS7300-11-03565
- Archive Date
- 4/21/2011
- Point of Contact
- Maria L Mendoza, Phone: (206)526-6671
- E-Mail Address
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Maria.L.Mendoza@noaa.gov
(Maria.L.Mendoza@noaa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This publication serves as notice of intent to procure supplies for the Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Marine Mammal Laboratory located in Seattle, WA on a sole source basis with RJE International, Inc. The government intends to acquire supplies using FAR Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures. Proposed vendor will provide quantity of 15 each replacement low frequency long-life underwater acoustic pingers and upgrade 15 recovered pingers to 170 dB acoustic power level. The objective is to obtain 15 replacement pingers for July deployment in the Chukchi sea to ensure continuation of program data collection, as well as to upgrade (to 170 dB acoustic power output) the 15 currently deployed pingers after they are recovered and returned from the field. All pingers will be low-frequency, long-life, underwater acoustic pingers that will produce a series of 170 Db at 1m pulses every 1 hour for duration no shorter than 365 days for use as a reference signal in calibrating localization errors on passive acoustic recorders in the Chukchi Sea. The goal of the Chukchi Acoustic Oceanographic and Zooplankton study is to document the general presence of bowhead, right, fin, gray, and other whales in areas of potential seismic, drilling, construction, and production activities using passive acoustic monitoring. The proposed study will deploy three tight arrays of long-term acoustic recorders in the Chukchi Sea. Each array will consist of 5 recorders placed on sub-surface moorings spaced 2 miles apart in a pentagonal shape. These recorders will be run on a duty cycle of 1.5 hours on every 3 hours, at a sampling rate of ~ 16 kHz, for an entire year (365 days). This scheduling will allow for a long recording period that will ensure that all recorders will be on at the same time regardless of individual clock drifts. The five recorders in each array will reduce localization errors and increase the chance of localizations in the event of multiple recorder failures. Each mooring will have one pinger, thus each array will have 5 pingers. The pingers will be used as reference signals to calibrate the distance errors in our localization calculations of marine mammals passing through our study area. As sound speed in the water column can fluctuate from day to day, it is important to have calibration signals available throughout the entire deployment. We will also use these pingers to guide recovery of the moorings if the acoustic releases fail and dragging is necessary. We need a sound source that will be low enough in frequency to be detected by our recording system (frequency <7kHz), and have a frequency bandwidth and an inter-pulse group interval long enough to not interfere with our signals of interest (marine mammal vocalizations). The signals emitted from the pingers must be done so in a distinct and easily recognizable pattern that can be easily distinguished from both ambient noise and the signals of interest. Furthermore, the pingers must be on/off switch activated so that the pulse timing can be dictated by the scientist to ensure time separation of the pings from all moorings in the array cluster. The instruments (pingers and recorders) will be refurbished and redeployed annually. RJE International, Inc is the vendor who designed and built the pingers currently deployed in the Chukchi Sea, they are the only vendor that can properly upgrade those pingers. It is critical that the vendor be able to both upgrade our existing set of pingers as well as provide replacement pingers that have same signal characteristics and refurbishment parts to ensure continuation of program data collection throughout the project. The Government intends to negotiate a firm fixed price contract, the replacement pingers must be delivered to destination no later than July 15, 2011 and the upgraded pingers must be delivered no later than 4 months past date returned to vendor. The North American Industry Classification System Code for this acquisition is 334290. This notice represents the only official notice. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals; however, all submittals received by the due set forth in this notice will be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete this requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Responses must be faxed to Maria Mendoza at (206)527-7513 or provided by e-mail to maria.l.mendoza@noaa.gov. This is a simplified acquisition estimated value not to exceed $100,000.00. The Western Acquisition Division, requires that all contractors doing business with this Acquisition Office be registered with the Central Contractor Registry (CCR) as of October 1, 2003. After this date, NO award can be made unless the vender 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 the CCR and to be eligible to receive an award from this acquisition office, all offerors must have a Dun & Bradstreet Number. A Dun & Bradstreet number may be acquired free of charge by contacting Dun & Bradstreet on-line at www.dnb.com/eupdate or by phone at (800) 333-0505. This procurement also requires bidders to complete online Representations and Certifications at http://www.orca.bpn.gov.
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