SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Professional Services in Biotechnology Sciences: Multi-Year Biological Research at Ice Harbor Dam: Turbine Characterization
- Notice Date
- 7/5/2016
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, USACE District, Walla Walla, Attn: CENWW-CT, 201 North 3rd Avenue, Walla Walla, Washington, 99362-1876, United States
- ZIP Code
- 99362-1876
- Solicitation Number
- W912EF-16-R-SS59
- Archive Date
- 8/3/2016
- Point of Contact
- Mary M. Van Sickle, Phone: 5095277204
- E-Mail Address
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mary.m.vansickle@usace.army.mil
(mary.m.vansickle@usace.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Advisory and Assistance Services - Biological Studies in the Snake and Columbia River Basins Sources Sought 16-R-SS59 Study Title: Multi-Year Biological Research at Ice Harbor Dam: Turbine Characterization The purpose of this sources sought notice is to assist the US Army Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla District in Market Research of Industry to identify potential sources that can provide Professional Services in Fish Related Biotechnology/Bioengineering Studies. This is not a Request for Quote (RFQ) or a Request for Proposal (RFP). This announcement is for information and planning purposes only and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government, implied or otherwise, to issue a solicitation or award a contract. This is a Sources Sought announcement. No evaluation letters and/or results will be issued to the respondents. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this announcement. No telephone calls will be accepted requesting a bid package or solicitation. A solicitation does not presently exist. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla District is seeking sources to include small businesses (an individual, a group of individuals or a business) for a service requirement entitled: Biological Studies to Evaluate New Turbines Designed for Safer Fish Passage at Ice Harbor Dam. It is anticipated that a Biotechnology Studies Firm Fixed Price contract may be issued at a later date. The North American Industry Classification code (NAICS) 541712. The Small Business size standard for this NAICS code is 500 employees as determined by 13 CFR 121.104. To make an appropriate acquisition decision for this project, the Government may use responses to this sources sought synopsis. The type of solicitation issued and the manner of advertisement will depend on the responses to this sources sought synopsis. Professional Services in Biotechnology Sciences: The intent of this Source Sought is to identify and potentially secure sources of high quality expertise in fish passage studies requiring electronics engineering and data collection. Studies evaluating salmonid hydroturbine passage to date have resulted in a wealth of data that may be used to recommend turbine operations and applied to turbine designs for safer fish passage. Since 2010, efforts have been focused on the design of a new fixed blade propeller and a new Kaplan turbine runner to be installed at Ice Harbor Dam. These turbine runners were designed with biological criteria to be safer for fish passage. The fixed blade turbine runner will be installed in unit 2, and the Kaplan runner will be installed in units 1 and 3 beginning with unit 2 in 2017. Once installed these turbine runners will be evaluated for their biological performance. Fish passage survival studies will be conducted in an effort to determine potential injury mechanisms and relative survival of direct turbine passage. Simultaneous research to survival studies include characterization of the turbine environment. Collecting acceleration, pressure, and shear and turbulence data over time throughout the turbine passageway is crucial to understanding improvements in flow and fish passage conditions resulting from the new turbine designs. These data also elucidate areas of potential injury mechanisms and compliment survival data by identifying where in the turbine runner an injury may have occurred if live fish are recaptured with injuries. These data can also be correlated with direct injury and survival data to validate physical modeling efforts and evaluate the overall fish passage conditions and possible benefits realized by the new turbine designs. This study will be conducted over a number of years (tentatively FY17 - FY20). The following is a tentative expected timeline for study implementation. Fiscal Year Expected Tasks 2017 Preliminary study coordination, and planning. Collect turbine characterization data and correlate with fish passage survival data on the new fixed-blade turbine runner in unit 2 2018 Preliminary reporting 2019 Collect turbine characterization data and correlate with fish passage survival data on the new Kaplan turbine runner in unit 3; preliminary reporting 2020 Draft Final and Final Reporting 1.0 Objectives 1. Conduct prototype turbine studies to characterize the turbine environment experienced by juvenile salmonids passing through Ice Harbor Dam turbine units 2 and 3. 2. Work interactively and cooperatively with other contractors on site as necessary a. Other contractors will be implementing direct survival studies in the same vicinity during the same time period. This should be accounted for in planning and data analysis to include correlation between sensor and fish data collected simultaneously. Task Descriptions Fiscal Year 2017 Task 1 Build or procure an appropriate number of sensors with specifications consistent with those used to characterize the existing turbine at Ice Harbor in FY14 - FY15. Sensors shall adhere to following capabilities. • Instrumentation shall be packaged in one unit and at minimum record data consistent the following specifications: o A sampling frequency not less than 2,000 Hz. o Any instrumentation package passing through the turbine shall be neutrally buoyant and have significant shock survivability to withstand up to 5,000 g-force. o Dimensions: Approximately 90mm long x 25mm diameter, roughly the same size and shape of a juvenile Chinook salmon o Density: 1.00 mg/mm³ o Minimum sampling time: 3 min o 3D acceleration: 0 - 200 g, approximately 0-400 ft/s with an accuracy and precision of ±2.5 ft/s o 3D rotational velocity: 0 - 2000 ˚/s o Pressure: 0 - 203 psia within ≤ 0.5 seconds and with precision of ±0.2 psia o Temperature sensor: -10 - 100 ˚C o 3D orientation o Automatic floatation system shall be provided (internal or attachable) o Built-in radio frequency transmitter • Sensors shall be calibrated prior to release in a controlled laboratory environment to ensure that sensors are capable of accurately recording rapid and extreme variations in angular acceleration and pressure. Task 2 Release sensors in unit 1 at Corps defined turbine operations, release locations, and release elevations to collect desired turbine characterization data. Data collection will be conducted on a schedule and methods proposed by the contractor and approved by the Corps. *Note: This task is to be conducted in cooperation with another contractor releasing balloon tagged juvenile fish. • Collect data with a minimum sample size to obtain appropriate diagnostic data on the environment of the fish release system. • Conduct data analysis sufficient to verify fish release pipes terminate at expected elevations and the induction system provides no potential for injury to released fish. Task 3 Release sensors in unit 2 at Corps defined turbine operations (three for unit 2), release locations, and release elevations to collect desired turbine characterization data. Data collection will be conducted on a schedule and methods proposed by the contractor and approved by the Corps. *Note: This task is to be conducted in cooperation with another contractor releasing balloon tagged juvenile fish. • Collect turbine characterization data with sensors capable of recording linear acceleration, the three components of angular velocity and absolute pressure at a rate of 2000 Hz. Release a sample size of approximately 200 sensors per turbine operation. • Conduct data analysis sufficient to quantify rapid pressure changes, shear and acceleration to identify potential physical contact with turbine blades and other surfaces within the turbine passage environment. o Events shall be quantified by time, location and severity to determine where pressure, shear, etc., occurs within the turbine environment. o Data analysis shall provide the mean, variance, 95% confidence intervals, and distribution of nadir pressures, expected collision frequencies, shear and turbulence of the sensor passage through the turbines. Analyses shall include pressure nadir profiles and ranges for each operating point, as well as summary tables and appropriate figures to characterize the overall pressure and acceleration throughout the turbine passageway and specific areas of potential fish injury. • Data (including 95% confidence intervals) shall be compared with CFD model outputs (completed by others) to interpolate collected pressure and acceleration data to the broad distribution of potential pressures and areas of shear or turbulence. • Correlate sensor data to direct release fish injury and survival data from a concurrent contract. o Complete observational and statistical comparison of severe event recorded by sensors with injuries observed on live specimens. Test for statistical significance (α=0.05) between datasets for minor injury/sensor event, major injury or mortality/sensor event, and all injuries, and sensor events combined and provide summary figures and tables. Fiscal Year 2019 Task 1 Release sensors in unit 3 at Corps approved turbine operations (four for unit 3) following the same requirements as Task 3. Fiscal Year 2020 Task 1 Prepare and submit a Draft Final Report encompassing study methods, results, and QA/QC details from the 2017 - 2019 turbine tests (see deliverables section). Task 2 Submit a Final Report encompassing methods and results from all years of turbine testing and incorporating Government review comments from the Draft Final Report (see deliverables section) Task 3 Oral presentation of final study findings (fixed blade and Kaplan runners) at the Corps' annual AFEP review (see deliverables section). Deliverables 1. Prepare and submit a detailed In-Progress Report describing results of the 2017 unit 2 test (FY17, Task 3) within 90 days of the last sensor release. The report shall include methods, results, and QA/QC measures and methodology for data collection and screening out errant data. The report shall also include sensor validation of release pipe terminus elevations and induction system environment (FY17, Task 1). The report shall be in sufficient detail that future biological study designs and implementation plans or project operations may be drafted using the data and results. An oral presentation of preliminary study results shall be delivered at the annual AFEP Review in December, 2018. The Government shall review the report and AFEP presentation and provide comments for revision. 2. Prepare and submit a detailed In-Progress Report describing results of the 2019 unit 3 test (FY19, Task 1) within 90 days of the last sensor release. The report shall include methods, results and QA/QC measures and methodology for data collection and screening out errant data. The report shall be in sufficient detail that future biological study designs and implementation plans or project operations may be drafted using the data and results. The Government shall review the In-Progress Report and provide comments for revision. 3. Prepare a Draft Final Report for Government review encompassing turbine testing 2017 - 2019 (FY20, Task 1) within 60 days of submittal of the In-Progress Report for sensor testing of unit 3. The Draft Final Report shall provide a detailed description of data analysis and dataset comparisons among turbine runners and between sensors and direct-released fish. Data processing and analysis methodology shall be described in sufficient detail for the Government to understand the temporal and spatial level of data analysis and summarization. QA/QC measures and methodology for data collection and screening out errant data shall be described in detail. The results of this study should be discussed relative to new turbine runner improvement to fish passage conditions compared to existing Ice Harbor turbines and other similar turbine studies, applicability of results to turbine operations and the application of the report for use in making future turbine operating recommendations, and path forward discussion regarding turbine designs and biological turbine testing at other Federal Projects. 4. Upon review, the Corps' TPOC will provide reviewer comments within 45 days of receipt of the Draft Final Report. The contractor shall provide with written response to each Government comment on the Draft Final Report as an appendix to the Final Report. Responses shall include a description how the Final Report addresses the comments, changes made to the Draft Final Report, or rationale for allowing original information to stand in the Final Report. 5. Prepare a Final Report for the Government incorporating changes to the Draft Final Report (FY20, Task 2) as agreed upon by the contractor and the Government within 60 days of receiving Government comments. Comments and responses shall be appended in the Final Report. A cleaned data set from the study will be archived and delivered in a Corps specified electronic format at this time as well. An oral presentation of final study results shall be delivered at the annual AFEP Review in December, 2020 (FY20, Task 3). Government-furnished Services/Equipment The Government will not provide equipment required to characterize the turbine passage environment. The contractor shall be self-sufficient. COE Project personnel will not be available for support. The COE TPOC will be available during the study to assist as needed. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR SOURCES SOUGHT: Interested statements shall be limited to five pages and shall include the following information: a. Firm's name, addresses, point of contact, phone number, and email address. b. CAGE Code and DUNS Number. c. A capability statement expressing interest in proposing on the solicitation when it is issued, describing the company and its specialized experience with the Bureau of Reclamation, US Army Corps of Engineers, and/or public utilities. d. A statement detailing any special qualifications or certifications, applicable to the scope of services requested, held by the in-house personnel of the firm expressing interest. A brief overview of the firm's capabilities and experience that relate to the multiple tasks and deliverables of the potential services listed above. e. A list of the firm's current or past specialized experience similar to or the same as the summary scope of services for this requirement performed in the last five years. Include a brief description of each project scope, schedule, and dollar value. f. A statement of your firm's business size to include designation as: SBA certified 8(a), SBA certified HUBZone, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, Small Disadvantaged Business, Woman-Owned Business, or a Large Business. SUBMISSION OF RESPONSES: Respondents interested in providing a response to this Notice shall provide their submittals to Mary M. Van Sickle NLT 4:00 p.m. (PDT) on 19 July 2016, via email to: mary.m.vansickle@usace.army.mil (ensure that the number & title of the Sources Sought Notice of "W912EF-16-R-SS59, Professional Services: Multi-Year Biological Research at Ice Harbor Dam: Turbine Characterization," is included in the subject line of the email). Any electronic files (EMAIL) CANNOT EXCEED this Agency's size limit of 20MB (includes email and its attachment); files exceeding this size will be denied access to Ms. Van Sickle's email inbox. Response deadline: July 19th, 2016 at 4:00 p.m. (Pacific Time Zone) This is not a Request for Proposal (RFP) or Invitation for Bid (IFB), nor is it to be construed as a commitment by the Government; it is only to obtain market capabilities/industry comments and is to be used for informational purposes only. The Government does not intend to make an award on the bases of this sources sought synopsis/request for information, nor will the Government pay for the information solicited herein.
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