SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Technologies for Monitoring Ballast Water Discharge Standard Compliance - Package #1
- Notice Date
- 7/11/2013
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 334513
— Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables
- Contracting Office
- Department of Homeland Security, United States Coast Guard (USCG), Contracting Office, USCG Research and Development Center, 1 Chelsea Street, New London, Connecticut, 06320-5506, United States
- ZIP Code
- 06320-5506
- Solicitation Number
- HSCG32-13-R-R00016
- Point of Contact
- Dinah L Mulligan, Phone: 860-271-2885, Brenda M Burke, Phone: 860-271-2872
- E-Mail Address
-
Dinah.L.Mulligan@uscg.mil, Brenda.M.Burke@uscg.mil
(Dinah.L.Mulligan@uscg.mil, Brenda.M.Burke@uscg.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Sample Statement of Work White Paper Template BAA HSCG32-13-R-R00016 - Technologies for Monitoring Ballast Water Discharge Standard Complaince This announcement constitutes a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.102(d)(2). No Request for Proposal (RFP), solicitation, or other announcement will be made. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation. The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Research and Development Center (RDC) will not issue paper copies of the announcement. The International maritime industry, with more than 70,000 merchant vessels, is responsible for transporting more than 80 per cent of the goods traded in world markets, and is a foundation for the global economy. However, commercial shipping is also responsible for transporting ballast water and introducing aquatic invasive species to coastal waters where they can cause enormous ecological and economic damage. The International Maritime Organizaton (IMO) International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments, adopted in 2004 but not yet ratified or entered into force, include a discharge standard to reduce the transport and delivery of potential Aquatic Nuisance Species. Concurrently in the United States, the USCG developed and finalized ballast water discharge standards (BWDSs) that limit concentrations of living organisms that can be released with ballast water and new regulations that require ship operators to meet those limits. The USCG discharge standard, which is the same as that of the IMO, will begin to apply to ships constructed on or after December 1, 2013 and for ships constructed prior to that date in 2014 or 2016 depending on ballast water capacity. To address the IMO and US discharge standards, techology developers and manufacturers around the world have designed and built a variety of onboard Ballast Water Management Systems (BWMSs) to achieve the prescribed discharge limits. To date, several dozen BWMSs have been tested by independent laboratories and have received type approval certifications from various international administrations in accordance with the IMO convention. These systems include treatment processes such as: deoxygenation, filtration, ultraviolet radiation, ozonation, and various chemical treatments including electrocatalytic chlorination, peracetic acid, hydrogen peroxide, perchloric acid, and chlorine dioxide. When the IMO and US BWDSs enter into force, port State control officers will require methods to rapidly and accurately verify a vessel's compliance with the BWDSs. At this time, there is little to no information on commercially available technologies or the capabilities (testing limitations) of those technologies to verify compliance. This procurement is the first step in the process of developing a feasible method for assessing compliance.
- Web Link
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- Record
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