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B -- TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC PLANNING, ORGANIZATION, AND CONDUCT OF A WORKSHOP SOL 0100PO17036 DUE 013100 POC Jane M. Carlson/Dotty Quinn, Contracting Officers, (703) 787-1365 The Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, intends to acquire services from Dr. David Stanley, BEAK International, Lancaster, New York, to be negotiated on a sole-source basis. It is proposed that a workshop summarizing the impact and evolution of offshore structures, fish assemblages and fisheries take place over 3 -- 4 days during late 2000, in New Orleans, LA. Dr. David Stanley will assist MMS in the technical and scientific planning, organization, and conduct of the workshop. The services to be provided include: Preparation of workshop announcement Dr. Stanley, BEAK International, in conjunction with MMS representatives will design the workshop announcement; Mailing list American Fisheries Society (AFS) Southeastern Region -- in order to broaden the scope of attendees, the mailing list of AFS members from the southeastern region will be provided to MMS; Listing of workshop announcement on BEAK International website. The announcement will be linked with a workshop announcements on the AFS and MMS website; Dr. Stanley will act as liaison to the AFS for coordination of selected workshop papers in a special publication of AFS; Scientific and Technical Meeting Organization in consultation with MMS representatives the agenda of the meeting will be determined, organization of invited speakers, workshop format will be developed and final determination of speakers and presentations; Workshop participation Dr. Stanley along with MMS participation will serve as conference chair and deliver opening and closing remarks. Papers from speakers will be collected and submitted to MMS for copy editing. Chair participation will include participation in the workshop, presentation of relevant research and monitoring paper submission by workshop participants; Posting of workshop abstracts on BEAK International Website. The abstracts from workshop speakers will be posted on the BEAK International website with links to the AFS and MMS website. The abstracts will be posted until the proceedings of the workshop are published; Technical and Scientific Review of Papers Selected for Publication in AFS Special Proceedings. After receiving the copy edited drafts of the papers selected for publication in the AFS special proceedings, Dr. Stanley with MMS participation will conduct scientific and technical reviews. BEAK International will supervise and monitor the progress of the selected papers; and BEAK International will provide acceptable peer reviewed versions of selected papers for publication in the AFS special proceedings. Documents will be in the format acceptable to AFS. This will include final scientific and technical editing along with review of galleys. Dr. Stanley, with over 10 years directed research at offshore oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, is considered to be uniquely qualified to perform these services by virtue of his knowledge of the importance of offshore structures to fisheries, previous experience and knowledge of other fisheries research in the Gulf of Mexico region, publicationof fisheries research related to oil and gas development in professional journals and at professional meetings, and the cost savings which would be realized by using a contractor who is at a higher point on the learning curve for the work being performed than a new contractor would be. Posted 12/16/99 (W-SN409278). (0350)

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