SOURCES SOUGHT
B -- Analyze the effects of future climate changes on the agricultural and municiipal water demands within one or more Central Valley Project (CVP) water service areas.
- Notice Date
- 3/25/2009
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- Bureau of Reclamation - Mid-Pacific Regional Office 2800 Cottage Way, Room E-1807Federal Building Sacramento CA 95825
- ZIP Code
- 95825
- Solicitation Number
- 09SQ200147
- Response Due
- 3/31/2009
- Archive Date
- 3/25/2010
- Point of Contact
- Susanna Muradyan Contract Specialist 9169785138 smuradyan@mp.usbr.gov;<br />
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This announcement is to Small Business, Small Disadvantaged Business, Women-Owned Small Business, HUBZone, Small Business, Veteran-Owned Small Business, and Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business concerns that may be interested in performing a contract for the Mid-Pacific Region of the Bureau of Reclamation. The work to be performed is described below. Based upon response to this announcement, the Government may determine to set this acquisition aside or proceed with an unrestricted solicitation. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 541690 and the related small business size standard is $7 million. This notice is not a request for proposal and the information presented in this announcement will not obligate the Bureau of Reclamation in any manner. Interested parties should include the following information in their response: (a) Business name, address, cage code, size classification based on NAICS size standard, socioeconomic classification (i.e. HUBZone and/or 8(a)), and a point of contact; (b) A positive statement of your intention to submit an offer for this solicitation as a prime contractor; (c) Evidence of your experience performing work similar in type and scope to the work in this announcement within the last five years. The evidence should include: contract numbers, project titles, dollar amounts and points of contacts with telephone numbers. Please do not include more than three past projects; and (d) Include attachments cataloging the company's equipment assets, personnel resources and financial resources that demonstrate company responsibility and capability to perform required work.(e) If bonding is required, also provide evidence of your bonding capacity; All interested parties are encouraged to respond to this notice, by e-mail to smuradyan@mp.usbr.gov no later than the close of business on 03/31/2009. The information provided in this announcement is all information the Government has available at this time. There are no specifications, drawings, bid packages, or source lists available. The principal components of the work to be performed include: BACKGROUND:The Land Atmosphere Water Simulator (LAWS) is an integrated, flexible, and scalable tool for efficiently developing and comparing alternative water management strategies with either historical or forecasted water supply and demands conditions. LAWS provide users with the capability to evaluate alternative water management strategies based on multiple factors including: "Meteorological Conditions"Water management practices"Vegetation types Daily agricultural and municipal water demands are calculated by LAWS based on the acreages and types of vegetation growing within a water management area. These water demands are computed using the well established crop coefficient method (Allen et al, 1998) and either historic, current or forecasted potential evapotranspiration (ET) data. Using soil moisture based water scheduling techniques (Goldhammer and Synder, 1989), LAWS can be used to simulate the amounts and timing of agricultural and municipal water demands in multiple water management areas. In LAWS, these demands can be associated with one or more sources of supplies including reservoirs, groundwater, and/or reused drain water. Reservoir operations and water accounting features are an integral part of a LAWS simulation. A network model of the water delivery system simulates the daily management of reservoir releases in rivers and main canals. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this project are to analyze the effects of future climate changes on agricultural and municipal water demands within one or more Central Valley Project (CVP) water service areas. The studies shall address the effects of projected changes in demographics and increased frequency, duration, and intensity of extremes in meteorological conditions affecting water demands including droughts, concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), and other meteorological conditions affecting ET. The project shall also examine how water management, infrastructure and land use practices may be altered to adapt to future changes in the quantity and seasonality of CVP water supplies. STATEMENT OF WORK: Task 1: Service Area and Future Scenario SelectionThe contractor shall work with Reclamation technical experts in the Division of Planning to select one or more water service areas that shall be simulated in detail. The contractor shall evaluate the availability of the necessary LAWS input data in various service areas, identify areas meeting the requirements for a LAWS simulation, identify missing and/or incomplete data, suggest ways to resolve input parameter uncertainty and make recommendations regarding final service area selections. For municipal water use within the selected service area, the contractor shall work with Reclamation to select a minimum of 2 future population growth scenarios. The contractor shall work with Reclamation technical experts to identify a minimum of 4 future climate scenarios that are appropriately downscaled to the selected service area. The time period for the modeling is from late 20th century to the end of the 21st century. Deliverables:Under this Task, the deliverable shall be participation in meetings with Reclamation and providing a technical memorandum describing the sources of available data for the simulations, documentation of the criteria used in the decision making process, and rationale for the final selections. Task 2: Model PreparationThe contractor shall obtain the data required for a LAWS simulation and prepare this information for input into the LAWS model. This information includes preparation of reference crop ET (ETo) and CO2 time series for each future climate scenarios for selected services area. The contractor work closely with Reclamation technical experts to develop appropriate model parameters for representing the physical characteristics for soils, vegetation coefficients, crop rotations, planting and harvesting dates, irrigation system and landscape types, soil water management criteria, urban user categories and per capita water use appropriate to the selected water services area(s). The contractor shall develop and implement in LAWS algorithms to simulate the effects of increased CO2 concentrations on plant transpiration. The contractor shall obtain Reclamation approval before proceeding to Task 3. Deliverables:The contractor shall provide a technical memorandum documenting the sources of the data, methods used to transform data and the rationale for selecting model parameters. The contractor shall also deliver to Reclamation any intermediary products and software tools developed for the purpose of model preparation. Task 3: Model SimulationsThe contractor shall develop, perform and analyze 4 future climate scenarios for each of the two demographic levels to quantify potential changes agricultural and municipal water demands based on changes in meteorology and demographics in the service area. The analysis shall quantify trends and statistics regarding annual, seasonal, and monthly water demands over the simulation period. Based on these results, the contractor shall perform a minimum of 3 adaptation strategy scenario simulations designed to quantify how various combinations of water management and infrastructure changes can deployed over the simulation period to balance differences in future water supply and demand in the service area(s). The contractor shall perform an analysis to quantify trends and statistics regarding annual, seasonal, and monthly water demands, shortages and surpluses over the simulation period based on each of the adaptation strategies. Deliverables:The contractor shall prepare a written report documenting the assumptions, methods and results of the simulations. This report shall be provided in the form of an electronic document (Word format) with accompanying data files for developed for running the simulations. In addition, any intermediary or final work products such as GIS maps, databases, spreadsheets or pre- and post-processing software developed to perform the simulations shall be provided in electronic to Reclamation. Task 4: Model Simulations of Additional Service Areas (OPTION TASK) The purpose of this Task is to perform additional work of the same nature as described in Task 1, 2 and 3 above, but in additional service areas. Based on the results obtained during the performance of the Tasks 1, 2 and 3, Reclamation may request the contractor to perform additional applications of the model to supplement the results obtained in the work described above. Deliverables:If performed, the deliverables under this Task shall be the same as described in Tasks 1, 2 and 3 above. Central Contractor Registration (CCR) and Annual Representations and Certifications, as required by FAR 4.1102, apply to this procurement. Prospective contractors must be registered prior to award. Lack of registration in the CCR database will make an offeror ineligible for award. Information on CCR registration can be obtained via the Internet at http://www.ccr.gov. Information on annual Representations and Certifications can be obtained via the Internet at http://orca.bpn.gov.
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