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F -- TAMPA BAYWATCH/WETLAND NURSERY PROGRAM SOL NFFN1200700004 DUE 082897 POC Sheila Anderson 816-426-7267, ext. 240 The U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Habitat Conservation Division located in St. Petersburg, Florida, is proposing to contract with Tampa BayWatch, Inc., (a private, non-profit organization dedicated to the scientific and charitable purpose of monitoring, protecting and restoring the marine and wetland environments of Tampa Bay), to expand the Tampa Bay High School Wetland Nursery Program. The project will expand the Nursery Program to eight schools and produce a report and Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Manual for the establishment of saltmarash nurseries by high school students with transplantation of nursery stock by community volunteers at wetland restoration projects. Tampa BayWatch will establish three new saltmarash nurseries, recycle five existing nurseries, and coordinate transplantation efforts providing, at no-cost, plant materials to various wetland restoration projects in Tampa Bay. The lessons learned from this project will be used as thebasis for the report and O&M Manual. The Nursery Program provides students with hands-on experience in habitat restoration activities and provides a free source of native wetland plant material to be used in many habitat restoration projects, undertaken in partnership with the NMFS, to restore Tampa Bay. The Government intends to solicit to only one source under the authority of 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1). This is not a call for proposals. Interested parties are encouraged to respond to this announcement within 15 days of its publication and shall submit in writing, its name, address, point of contact, telephone number, business size and a brief statement regarding its capability to provide the specified services and the names, telephone numbers, and points of contact for businesses or other Government agencies to which it has previously provided similar services. No response will be provided to those inquiries which fail to provide the information requested. This information shall be submitted to the address stated herein or may be faxed to 816-426-7530. This is not a request for proposals and there is no RFQ available at this time. A determination by the Government not to compete is solely within the discretion of the Government. These services will be purchased under the guidelines of FAR part 13, Simplified Acquisitions Procedures. (0225)

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