SOURCES SOUGHT
B -- Pinniped Work in the Antarctic
- Notice Date
- 7/16/2009
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NOAA/National Marine Fisheries Service, James J. Howard Marine Sciences Lab, 74 Magruder Road, Highlands, New Jersey, 07732, United States
- ZIP Code
- 07732
- Solicitation Number
- SWFSC112
- Archive Date
- 8/14/2009
- Point of Contact
- pamela.g.jones, Phone: 8585467009
- E-Mail Address
-
pamela.g.jones@noaa.gov
(pamela.g.jones@noaa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- We are looking for someone with the knowledge and capability as follows. SECTION C. DESCRIPTION/SPECIFICATIONS/WORK STATEMENT The Contractor shall furnish the necessary personnel, material, equipment, services and facilities (except as otherwise specified), to perform the following Statement of Work/Specifications. STATEMENT OF WORK/SPECIFICATION I. BACKGROUND The Antarctic Marine Living Resources Convention Act of 1984 (Title III of Pub.L. 98-623, 16 U.S.C. 2431 et seq.) Provides the legislative authority necessary to implement, with respect to the United States, the Antarctic Marine Living Resources (AMLR) Program. The AMLR Program, which is managed by the Antarctic Ecosystem Research Division (AERD) at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC), provides information to the U.S. delegation to the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), part of the Antarctic treaty system. CCAMLR is an international treaty between 23 nations that seeks to manage Antarctic fisheries with the goal of preserving species diversity and stability of Antarctic marine ecosystems. In keeping with this objective, CCAMLR has designated areas of research that member nations are obligated to pursue. The AMLR Program has identified specific data sets that must be collected to respond to CCAMLR's research directives. In doing so, the AMLR Program supports the U.S. Government's commitment to CCAMLR. In 1996/97, the AMLR Program established a field camp at Cape Shirreff, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Within the vicinity of this study area, the program has specified a large-area survey grid. The field camp and study area were established where reproductive success and feeding ecology of breeding seals and penguins could be monitored. Since the 1997/98 field season, research on fur seals and other krill-dependent predators has been conducted at Cape Shirreff and the AMLR oceanographic survey grid was expanded to include waters adjacent to Livingston Island. II. PURPOSE A. Overall Program Objectives The AMLR Program monitors finfish, crab, and krill fisheries, projects sustainable yields where possible, and formulates management advice and options. In addition, the Program conducts field research designed to describe the functional relationships between krill (Euphausia superba), their predators, and key environmental variables. B. Specific Study Objectives The objectives of the research covered by this contract include the following: (1) To participate in logistical operations to transport equipment, supplies and personnel between the chartered research vessel and the field camp at Cape Shirreff; (2) To conduct pinniped research, assist the pinniped research Principal Investigator as directed with collecting and analyzing standardized data related to Antarctic fur seal, elephant, leopard, and Weddell seal reproduction, foraging ecology, growth, abundance and distribution, and survival. Foraging ecology of Antarctic fur seals includes collection and analysis of contents for 100-150 fur seal scats. The contractor shall be responsible for insuring all scats collected are analyzed and the results recorded in excel spreadsheets before the end of the field season; (3) To assist the senior seabird biologist, as appropriate, with collecting information related to penguin reproduction, growth, abundance and distribution, and survival; (4) To assist in logistics and maintenance of the U.S. AMLR field camp at Cape Shirreff, Livingston Island, Antarctica and to serve as expedition leader in the absence of the pinniped research PI; (5) Contractor shall participate and at times oversee general camp maintenance (including generators, solar array, and wind generator), construction projects, cooking, cleaning, etc. (6) Contractor shall be responsible for exterior and interior painting of the field camp (3 buildings and an outhouse). (7) In the absence of the pinniped program leader, the contractor shall assume responsibility of all pinniped research, data management and field assistants. (8) Contractor shall assist in writing, editing and graphics of the pinniped section of the annual U.S.-AMLR field season report and assist in writing and editing a field manual for pinniped studies. (9) Contractor shall attend a Wilderness First Response training course. III. CONTRACT TASKS A. TASKS 1. Logistics Plan: The Contractor shall provide input, based upon experience in participating in remote field operations, to our plan to transfer materials, equipment, and supplies from the research vessel to Cape Shirreff. 2. Pinniped Research at Cape Shirreff: The Contractor shall assist the field leader in the collection of Antarctic fur seal reproductive, growth, abundance and distribution, and survival data. Similar data shall be collected on elephant, Weddell and leopard seals. Specifically, he/she shall assist in capture and handling of adult fur seal females, tooth extraction, weighing fur seal pups, tagging fur seals, obtaining and processing diet samples (100-150 scats and enemas), instrumenting fur seals, leopard, and elephant seals with radio transmitters, time-depth recorders (TDRs) and satellite-linked transmitters (PTTs), etc, as required. B. GOVERNMENT-PROVIDED AND CONTRACTOR-PROVIDED PROPERTY The Government shall provide cold weather clothes such as raingear, parkas, gloves, and boots. The Government shall also provide all tools, boats, and scientific equipment needed to complete the specific tasks above. The Contractor shall provide personal clothes, such as pants, shirts, undergarments, socks, etc. The contractor shall also provide personal effects that he/she might desire while aboard the ship or island. The Contractor shall be responsible for arranging all travel to and from Punta Arenas, Chile. He/she shall arrive no less than 2.5 days before departure of the vessel transporting U.S.-AMLR field personnel to the South Shetlands. V. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS AND DELIVERABLES The Contractor shall assist in drafting an annual Field Season Report as directed by the field leader and shall submit all AMLR data he/she personally collected during the field season to the field leader for final processing by March 31, 2010. The Contractor will assist in writing and editing a field manual for pinniped studies. The Contractor shall be responsible for data management and data summaries of results (to include but not limited to fur seal diet, over-winter survival, adult female natality, attendance behavior-trip and visit durations, leopard seal predation on fur seal pups, a "permit-helper" file that summarizes all captures and samples collected for each species, and cataloguing all samples collected). The contractor shall conduct weekly back-ups of all computer files and will provide three copies of all data collected. One copy shall return to SWFSC-La Jolla, CA in the annual sea shipment, a second copy shall be returned in the annual air shipment or shall be given to the U.S.-AMLR NOAA corps officer to hand carry to La Jolla, CA, the third and final copy shall be the original data recorded on the pinniped field laptop. No other copies are authorized and the contractor shall not retain any pinniped field data for his/her possession. The Government does not provide insurance to the Contractor and is not liable for injuries suffered by the contractor during the performance of duties. Travel shall include all costs associated with getting the Contractor from his/her home in the U.S. to Chile and return, including airfare, ground transportation, lodging, food and miscellaneous expenses associated with this travel. VI. PERIOD OF CONTRACT: The contract shall begin 1 August 2009 and end 15 April 2010.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Southwest Fisheries Science Center, 3333 N Torrey Pines Court, La Jolla, California, 92037, United States
- Zip Code: 92037
- Zip Code: 92037
- Record
- SN01877439-W 20090718/090717000003-8d667c82b5d57dc292d8cbe0398a63f5 (fbodaily.com)
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