SPECIAL NOTICE
B -- PH3 ASSESSING AG CONSUMPTIVE USE TASK 3
- Notice Date
- 5/17/2017
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541620
— Environmental Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Bureau of Reclamation Upper Colorado Region Regional Office 125 South State Street, Room 8100 Salt Lake City UT 84138 US
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- R17PS00965
- Point of Contact
- Ojewia, Josephine
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLICIT FROM A SINGLE SOURCE: PROJECT DESCRIPTION AND PURPOSE: The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Upper Colorado Region, intends to solicit and award a single-source firm-fixed-price purchase order to Wilson Water Group, for Assessing Agricultural Consumptive Use in the Upper Colorado River Basin. Wilson Water Group is the only known source for providing the requirements listed below. Wilson Water Group will perform work as follow: i.Review data input requirements and recommend specific datasets as input to the remote sensing and crop coefficient methods. ii.Evaluating the maps of potentially irrigated lands produced by each Upper Division state, and identifying areas of possible omissions or commissions. Reclamation will assist in identifying areas to be reviewed by the CUWG, which will decide upon any needed changes to state maps of potentially irrigated lands. iii.Recommend a method or methods for determining shortage in the Upper Colorado River Basin where shortage predominantly occurs. iv.Recommend a method or methods for determining effective precipitation in Upper Colorado River Basin. The consultant will lead an assessment of various effective precipitation procedure to consider before recommendation. v.Compare actual evapotranspiration (ET) results from the (Consumptive Use Work Group) CUWG ¿s eddy covariance systems to the results generated by the three remote sensing methodologies. vi.Compare actual ET estimates generated by the Blaney-Criddle and Penman-Monteith based crop coefficient methods to ET estimates from eddy covariance systems located within the Basin. vii.Compare estimates of actual ET, potential ET, and net irrigation requirement for the Upper Basin generated by all five investigated methods (three remote sensing and two crop coefficient) on a monthly and growing season (e.g., April ¿ October) time scale. Include spatial disaggregation of results (method to be determined) to illuminate spatial trends in differences between various models. viii.Provide recommendations for developing a unified consumptive use methodology in the Upper Colorado River basin. In accordance with FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i), the Contracting Officer determines that Wilson Water Group is the only known company with the expertise to perform the work. Anticipated period of performance of one year from date of award. PLACE OF PERFORMANCE: Wilson Water Group, 165 S Union Blvd #520, Lakewood, CO 80228 NAICS AND SIZE STANDARD: The NAICS code for this procurement is 541620 with a small business standard size of $15.0 million. THIS NOTICE OF INTENT IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS. However, all interested parties who believe they can meet the requirements are invited to submit in writing complete information describing their ability to provide the product/services listed above. Deadline date for the submittals is May 22, 2017 at 4:00 pm Mountain Standard Time (MST). Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. A determination by the Government not to compete this requirement based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Contracting Officer. POINT-OF-CONTACT FOR QUESTIONS: The primary point of contact for this solicitation is Ms. Josephine Ojewia, Contract Specialist: Email - jojewia@usbr.gov. The contracting office is the Bureau of Reclamation, Upper Colorado Regional Office, 125 S State ST, Room 8100, Salt Lake City, Utah 84138.
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