SPECIAL NOTICE
W -- W--Lease of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV)
- Notice Date
- 2/9/2022 8:29:17 AM
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- OFFICE OF ACQUISITON GRANTS SACRAMENTO CA 95819 USA
- ZIP Code
- 95819
- Solicitation Number
- 140G0322Q0021
- Response Due
- 2/22/2022 2:00:00 PM
- Point of Contact
- Lushenko, Nikolas, Phone: 916-278-9331, Fax: 916-278-9339
- E-Mail Address
-
nlushenko@usgs.gov
(nlushenko@usgs.gov)
- Description
- Notice of Intent This is a notice of intent to solicit from a single source. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), intends to negotiate a purchase order with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole, MA for the leasing of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) to support the collection of geophysical and geochemical data in the Escanaba Trough, Northeastern Pacific as described in the Statement of Work. Award will be made in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 13.106-1(b) and the procedures at FAR Part 12 entitled, Acquisition of Commercial Items, FAR Part 13 entitled, Simplified Acquisition Procedures, and FAR Subpart 13.5 entitled, Simplified Procedures for Certain Commercial Items. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute is, to the USGS� knowledge, the only source who can provide an AUV that can meet the minimum requirements of operating at a depth of 6000 m, extensive experience performing simultaneous operations, has a Kongsberg 2040 multibeam, an Edgetech 2205 subbottom profiler, a side scan sonar, a 3 x APS1520 3 axis magnetometers, and a unique design allowing for maneuverability in highly variable terrain such as the trough that USGS will be working in. The purpose of this notice is to satisfy the requirements of FAR Subpart 5.2. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotes. However, all responsible parties may submit a quotation by the closing date of this announcement which shall be considered by the agency. No solicitation will be issued. A determination not to compete this action based upon responses received is in the sole discretion of the Government. The NAICS code for this action is - 541990 All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services. Responses to this announcement shall only be accepted through electronic mail addressed to nlushenko@usgs.gov and must be uploaded and received in their entirety no later than February 22, 2022 at 1700 Eastern Time. STATEMENT OF WORK: The U.S. Geological Survey has a requirement for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) to support the collection of geophysical and geochemical data in the Escanaba Trough, Northeastern Pacific. The planned operations are from May 25- June 12, 2022, on the ship the Research Vessel Thompson. The AUV will leave with the vessel from port in Newport, OR and transit on the vessel to the study site offshore northern California. Approximately 18 work days will be spent on site using the AUV to collect geochemical and geochemical data. Upon completion of the work, the ship and AUV will return to Newport, OR. VEHICLE OPERATIONAL SPECIFICATIONS TO BE PROVIDED TO USGS Name and detailed description of the vessel to be used under this contract VEHICLE REQUIREMENTS (1) The vehicle must be an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) (2) The vehicle must be able to work at 3500 m water depth (3) The vehicle must be able to be deployed from the R/V Thomas G Thompson (4) The vehicle must be available in Newport, OR in May 2022 to join the R/V Thomas G Thompson (5) The vehicle must have extreme maneuverability, close bottom following, be able to accommodate large and innovative payloads, operate simultaneously with the ROV Jason, and transit rapidly to and from the seafloor. (6) The vehicle must be able to create bathymetric, sidescan, subbotom, detailed magnetic, chemical and temperature maps of the seafloor as well as high quality digital color photographs in a variety of deep-sea terrains. (7) The vehicle must navigate using a doppler velocity log and inertial navigation system, aided by acoustic navigation systems (USBL) (8) The vehicle must be able to accommodate 24-hour scientific operations (9) The vehicle must be able to accommodate geochemical sensor integration including user supplied science payloads such as iSP and methane
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