SPECIAL NOTICE
R -- Notice of Intent to Award Decadal Climate Variability
- Notice Date
- 8/12/2016
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541620
— Environmental Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, USACE HEC, Ft. Belvoir, Attn: CEHEC-CT, 7701 Telegraph Road, Alexandria, Virginia, 22315-3860, United States
- ZIP Code
- 22315-3860
- Solicitation Number
- W912HQ-16-S-0013
- Archive Date
- 9/13/2016
- Point of Contact
- Joseph J Lichman, Phone: 7034286551
- E-Mail Address
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joseph.lichman@usace.army.mil
(joseph.lichman@usace.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) intends to award a sole source fixed-price purchase order to Center for Research on the Changing Earth System for Decadal Climate Variability (DCV) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Water Management. Dr. Vikram Mehta is the leader of The Center for Research on the Changing Earth System (CRCES). He gained experience/developed methodologies under contract W912HQ-15-P-0056, as stated below, which will be applied to this award. There are two objectives of this project: 1) to evaluate how decadal climate variability (DCV) information could be used by USACE water managers, and 2) to write a report that provides the latest scientific information on DCV and the potential impacts on water management in the coterminous United States. The work builds on a previous study under contract W912HQ-15-P-0056 "Decadal Climate Variability Impact on Watershed Based Budget planning by the U.S. Army Corps." The proposed work consists of three tasks. The first task will be a meeting at the Institute for Water Resources to review the project framework and discuss the potential use of DCV information by USACE water managers. The second task will extend results from contract W912HQ-15-P-0056 to further evaluate the persistence of climate states and the probabilities of shifting to different states. The task will also extend the earlier work by looking at river basins in the coterminous United States in addition to the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. The third task is to produce a report that includes the following topics: 1) basic explanation of DCV; 2) description of DCV indices including their relationship to one another; 3) explanation of connections between oceans and hydrology in the contiguous U.S.; 4) discussion on the predictability of decadal climate processes; 5) discussion on persistence of climate states and on the probabilities of transitioning from one combination of climate states to another. The contract Period of Performance will be 180 after date of award. This is a special notice prepared in accordance with the format in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 5.2 Synopses of Proposed Contract Actions. A solicitation will not be posted. However, any firm that believes it can meet this requirement may give written notification to the Contracting Officer within 15 days of publication of this announcement. Supporting evidence must be in sufficient detail to demonstrate the ability to comply with the requirement. Responses received will be evaluated; however, a determination by the Government to compete the proposed procurement based on the responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers intends on proceeding with awarding a fixed price purchase order to CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON THE CHANGING EARTH SYSTEM. Point of contact for this requirement is Joseph Lichman at 703-428-6551 joseph.lichman@usace.army.mil. Address: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, HECSA, 7701 Telegraph Road, Alexandria, VA 22315.
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