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F -- RISK AND VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS OF COASTAL HAZARDS SOL 52-EANC-8-00041 DUE 112897 POC Linda Jacobs, Contract Specialist, (757) 441-6563/William D. Privott, Contracting Officer, (757) 441-6561 WEB: Click here to access our homepage, http://www.easc.noaa.gov. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the contract specialist via e-mail, Linda.L.Jacobs@noaa.gov. The Government intends to solicit and negotiate on a sole source basis with The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, Washington, DC to assess the current state of coastal hazard and risk information; identify current methodologies, models, and standards used in risk and vulnerability assessment; determine priority issues relating to coastal risk and vulnerability; develop a framework for a national approach to coastal risk and vulnerability assessment; contribute to the development of standardized criteria and methodologies for use in a national approach to coastal risk and vulnerability assessment; and explore mechanisms for incorporating risk and vulnerability assessment criteria into policy and implementation programs (hazard mitigation, coastal zone management, land use planning). Identify the factors to be included in measuring the true costs of disasters; identify methods for quantifying costs; discuss issues associated with the use of true cost factors in justifying hazard mitigation cost effectiveness; and explore mechanisms for incorporating true cost definitions and factors into policy and implementation programs, for the NOAA, Coastal Services Center, Charleston, SC. Period of performance is January 1, 1998 through December 31, 1998. Authority: 41 USC 253(c)(1). H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment is the only known source capable of performing the required assessments. The proposed contract action is for supplies or services for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under authority of FAR 6.302. Interested persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement or submit proposals. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. However, all proposals received within thirty days after date of publication of this synopsis will be considered by the government. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Evidence must be provided of ability to provide the required assessments. Copies of the solicitation will only be provided in response to written or faxed requests received directly from the requestor. Telephone requests will not be honored. Request for copies of the solicitation may be faxed to (757) 441-3786. Notes 22 and 26 apply. (0296)

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