MODIFICATION
B -- The purpose of this amendment is to issue a Q&A and provide a copy of the addendum referenced in the SOW.
- Notice Date
- 9/8/2009
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- Contracting Office
- NER - GATE Gateway National Recreation Area 210 New York Ave. Staten Island NY 10305
- ZIP Code
- 10305
- Solicitation Number
- Q1771090400
- Response Due
- 9/9/2009
- Archive Date
- 9/8/2010
- Point of Contact
- Adam Goldstein Contract Specialist 7183544618 Adam_goldstein@contractor.nps.gov;
- E-Mail Address
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Point of Contact above, or if none listed, contact the IDEAS EC HELP DESK for assistance
(EC_helpdesk@NBC.GOV)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Q&A: 1) Will we have a point of contact who knows the park, and has a sense of who needs to be interviewed, where materials are, etc? Kathy Foppes, Chief of Cultural Resource Management, at Gateway is the point of contact and will be able to answer questions concerning research materials at the park. 2) Can we get an estimate of how many oral history interviews will be called for? Does everyone who is talked to need to be treated as a formal interview (interview recorded and then transcribed)? Might, for example, notes suffice for a number of 20-30 minute conversations? Previous administrative histories have called for about 20 interviews. Notes will suffice to document specific questions, but "short interviews" of a general natural do not fall into that category, and e-mail and written responses to questions are an alternative to oral histories. The point is that substantive information needs to be documented and searchable by others. 3) Can we get an estimate of how many trips to the National Archives will be necessary? How much research material is there that requires archival research? Is any of it at the Varick St facility? This is an unknown. 4) Roughly when do you expect the project to launch? When will the contractor be chosen? How soon after that would the project kick off meeting take place? Isn't this a contracting decision? But we would expect for the award to be made on or before 9/25 and for the start-up meeting to take within 30 days. 5) Do you have an approximate page length or word length in mind for the history? It is expected that it will not be less than 100 pages, but other reports of this type have averaged 300 pages, 1 1/4 spaced, without appendices.. 6) Approximately how many images do you foresee being in the document? What kinds of images do you have in mind (maps, photos, drawings)? Previous studies have contained between 30 and 50 illustrations. The illustrations will need to include maps, development plans, historic of facilities and resources, etc. 7) What are the specifications for photo reproduction (dpi, size, etc.)? Photographs should vary in size and be integrated with the text. 300 dpi is workable, for the most part (the issue of course is print appearance, given image size). 8) Is the final printed product to be a printed book (with cover, end pages, ISBN number) or a technical report (informal binding)? Final report will be printed by GPO as a technical report, with specific NPS requirements for preliminaries, cover, etc.. It will not have an ISBN #. The final report as submitted by the contractor should be complete with respect to preliminaries, the body of the report, and appendices. The contractor is to submit a cover, with a title and illustration; the NPS will print the report, according to NPS graphic identity standards using the illustration on the cover of the contractor's submitted report. 9) Will you want the document indexed? Optional. A building/place index would be desirable, but was not specified in the scope. 10) You specify that the final camera ready document is to be produced in Word. Our experience is that Word is very limited for design and layout, and our firm uses InDesign for formatting reports, brochures and books.Will this be acceptable? No. We recognize the limitations, but given that this is a technical report, we would like it in Word and as a PDF. The addendum referenced in the SOW is below:ADDENDUM GATEWAY NATIONAL RECREATION AREABackgroundGateway has its origins in the Outdoor Recreation Bill, signed by President Kennedy in 1963. The 1960s were a turbulent time for America's urban areas, and it was increasingly clear there was a need for more recreational and outdoor opportunities, especially for those who couldn't necessarily afford a trip to Yellowstone or Yosemite. New York City, New York State, New Jersey, and the federal government brought together parcels of land in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and coastal property across the Raritan Bay in New Jersey. On October 27, 1972 these 12 upland sites and 12 islands came under the Park Service's jurisdiction as Gateway National Recreation Area with the passage of Public Law 92-592. The creation of the park was the culmination of years of effort by local governments, citizen groups, the National Park Service, and members of Congress. Notable participants in the events leading to Gateway's establishment included the Regional Plan Association, the Gateway Citizens Committee, the New York City Administration (most notably Mayor Lindsay), the late Governor Driscoll of New Jersey, and the late Congressman William Fitts Ryan. The Congressional Report issued at the park's authorization notes that "this will be the first Federal recreation area in the heart of an urban complex, and it will bring the national parks program closer to the people than ever before."Some of the high points in Gateway NRA's history have been the development of a formal relationship with the NYC school system in the 1970s resulting in the Gateway Center for Science and Environmental Study at Floyd Bennett Field; the closure of the Pennsylvania and Fountain Avenue Landfills in the 1980s; the implementation of shorebird management programs at Sandy Hook and Breezy Point in the late 1980s. In the 1990s there was the release of the NY Department of Environmental Conservation's report on marsh loss in Jamaica Bay; the development of long term agreements with the NYPD (New York Police Department) and the DSNY (Department of Sanitation, New York) on Floyd Bennett Field; the construction of new beach centers at Sandy Hook and Great Kills; and the acquisition and development of Fort Wadsworth which opened in 1997. In 2004, the park developed and operated the National Parks of New York Harbor Education Center which resulted in a NY metropolitan area initiative to create a network of educational services, enhance programs, and expand the audience through a formal partnership with CUNY (City University of New York). SourcesKnown locations of primary and secondary sources necessary to complete this project include: several locations within Gateway National Recreation Area, National Archives and its regional federal records centers and archival branches (including those located in Philadelphia, Waltham, MA and College Park, MD) and the NPS History Collection at the Harpers Ferry Center. Local historical societies, State Historic Preservation Offices of New York and New Jersey, New York Public Library, and the New York and New Jersey State Archives may be other repositories with information although no effort has been made to date to survey these sites for information related to the history of Gateway NRA. The basic sources for park administrative history research are NPS files and congressional documents. Congressional records are available in many libraries; NPS files that include correspondence, reports, and other documents may be divided among the National Archives and Records Administration research facilities in the Washington, D.C. area, its regional research facilities, federal records centers, and NPS headquarters, NPS regional offices, and individual parks. The contractor should plan visits to the appropriate National Archives facilities. The records and papers of organizations or individuals significantly involved in thepromotion, establishment, prior administration, and ongoing activities of the park should be located and researched as well. Most, but not all, NPS generated reports and documents are included in one of two databases: 1.The NPS Cultural Resource Management Bibliography, a database of planning and cultural resource documents managed by the Northeast Museum Services Center located at the Charlestown Navy Yard, in Charlestown, Massachusetts. 2.The NPS Denver Service Center's Technical Information Center (TIC) is the central repository for all NPS-generated planning, design, construction drawings and related technical report documents. ETIC is the electronic document management system used to manage these documents and drawings. National Park Service Administrative History: A Guide lists selected works that deal broadly with National Park Service history or with particular programs, lists completed park studies, and provides guidance to archival sources. A revised and expanded Inventory of the Records of the National Park Service (Record Group 79) held at College Park, Maryland has been prepared and can be searched on line at: http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/RG79/NPSrg79_inventory.pdf It lists folders relating to the park's establishment and early history, superintendent's annual reports for 1981-84, 1986, 1986, 1991, 2001, and several other files. (The inventory is Rene M. Jaussaud's revision of Edward E. Hill's compilation, published by the National Park Service Park History Program in cooperation with the Organization of American Historians in 2007.) For additional information and links, see also the NPS Administrative Histories web page (http://www.nps.gov/history/history/hisnps/NPSHistory/adminhistory.htm). The origins of the park was the subject of Michael Kelleher's The Changing Standard of National Significance: How the New Environmentalism of the 1960s Redefined National Significance and Led to the Creation of Gateway National Recreation Area, the First Urban National Park. New York: Department of History, New York University, 1995. RECORDS IN THE PARKA survey of all park records, inclusive of both historical and administrative records, has recently been completed. The survey identifies the location of records. At the file drawer and box level, it identifies types of records by subject matter and file categories and extent by linear feet. It is not folder specific. The overwhelming majority of records located within the park are from the 1990s and later. It is believed that earlier records and files were transferred to the Federal Records Center although no information exists at this time regarding the nature and existence of these records. This survey, "Gateway National Recreation Area Archives Survey" (August 2008) in Collection Management Plan, Gateway National Recreation Area (2009), Appendix G, will made available to the researcher. Examples of specific records include: GIS database that provides information on the management of cultural and natural resources Maps and drawings located in the Plan Room in Park Headquarters. (While maps and drawings in the Plan Room may date to the beginning of the park's existence, they do not cover everything) Jamaica Bay Unit Central Files29 linear feet Sandy Hook Unit Central Files1980s-2000s Project Management Files1990s39 cartons (includes professional services library) Fort Hancock Rehabilitation Files2003-200514 cartons Press Releases & Clipping bulk 1980's to 2000's38 cartons some items from the 1970's Reading Files1980s-2008 Sandy Hook Unit Reading Files1987-2003 Section 106 Files (park wide)1997-present5 file drawers + files at units Section 106 Sandy Hook Files1979-20084.5 linear feet NEPA Compliance Files Visitation Statistics and Reports1970s-1990s32 linear feet Biologist Filespermits, inventory and monitoring files, water files16 linear feet Special Use Permits1986-19992 linear feet The Chief Curator, Gateway National Recreation Area, will arrange with each division chief and Unit Superintendent for access to Unit and division files. Due to the nature and extent of the material researcher(s) will have to travel to where the materials are located. Divisions include: Cultural Resources Management, Natural Resources Management, Operational Support, Administration, Maintenance, Project Management, Law Enforcement, and the US Park Police. It should be noted, however, that many park records have not been retired or processed, and remain in the offices and files of divisions within the park. The researcher will have to go to ORAL HISTORYOne task of this project will be to identify gaps in records that impede development of a full narrative of the park's history, and to address the gaps in part through oral history interviews.Approximately 10 oral interviews with participants involved with the creation of the park as well as former staff exist on cassettes only. The NPS will assist the contractor in locating interviewees.
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