SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- APPLYING LAGRANGIA STOCHASTIC MODEL
- Notice Date
- 7/20/2011
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541690
— Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- BOEMRE Procurement Branch, HQ381 Elden Street, MS 2100HerndonVA20170-4817US
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- M11PS00088
- Response Due
- 8/4/2011
- Archive Date
- 9/3/2011
- Point of Contact
- Herma J. Banks
- E-Mail Address
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herma.banks@boemre.gov
(herma.banks@boemre.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- PLEASE READ THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY AS IT CONSTITUTES THE ONLY NOTICE THAT WILL BE ISSUED. This pre-solicitation notice is being issued in accordance with FAR Part 5.204. This procurement is being conducted in accordance with FAR Part 15. The Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE), intends to competitively award a Firm Fixed Price Contract entitled Applying Lagrangian Stochastic Model to Track Oil Spills. The BOEMRE Procurement Operations Branch is the contracting office for this procurement and the resultant contract administrator. All vendors must be registered in the Central Contractor Registration (www.ccr.gov) in order to receive Government contracts. The Government intends to award a firm-fixed-price type contract for the effort described herein but may consider other proposed types if determined appropriate. The applicable NAICS Code is 541690, Other Scientific and Technical Services. The period of performance of the resultant contract is anticipated to be not more than 24 months.BACKGROUND: In 1953, the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Lands Act (67 Stat. 462) established Federal jurisdiction over the submerged lands of the continental shelf seaward of State boundaries. The Act charged the Secretary of the Interior with the responsibility for administering minerals exploration and development of the OCS. It also empowered the Secretary to formulate regulations so that the provisions of the Act might be met. The OCS Lands Act (OCSLA) Amendments of 1978 (92 Stat. 629) established a policy for the management of oil and natural gas in the OCS and for protection of the marine and coastal environments. The amendments authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct studies in areas or regions of sales to ascertain the environmental impacts on the marine and coastal environments of the outer Continental Shelf and the coastal areas which may be affected by oil and gas development (43 U.S.C. 1346). Subsequent to the passage of the OCSLA of 1953, the Secretary of the Interior designated the Bureau of Land Management as the administrative agency responsible for leasing submerged Federal lands and the U.S. Geological Survey for supervising production. In 1982, the Minerals Management Service (MMS), now BOEMRE, assumed these responsibilities. To meet its responsibilities, BOEMRE has four priority goals for OCS leasing: (1) orderly resource development to meet the Nations energy needs; (2) protection of the marine and coastal environments; (3) receipt of fair market value; and (4) preservation of free enterprise competition. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 (42 USC 4321-4347) requires that all Federal Agencies use a systematic, interdisciplinary approach that will ensure the integrated use of the natural and social sciences in any planning and decision making that may have an effect on the human environment. The BOEMRE efforts in this direction include environmental impact statements, environmental assessment teams, studies that acquire and analyze marine environmental data, literature surveys, socioeconomic analysis studies, public conferences, and special studies (toxicity studies, spill trajectory analyses, etc.).Oil Spill Risk Analysis (OSRA) is an important tool for evaluating impacts of potential oil spills in the OCS oil and gas leasing areas to prepare the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), and for evaluating mitigation, such as oil spill contingency plans. BOEMRE has decided to improve the estimate of the contact probability of potential oil spills from proposed oil and gas leasing areas by seeking an alternative approach, namely Lagrangian Stochastic Model, to generate the trajectory analysis. This study will give emphasis to theoretically treatment with some observational verification, preferably in the Gulf of Mexico. Lagrangian Stochastic (LS) Models have been widely used in atmospheric sciences to estimate the particle transport, such as air pollutants or airborne radioactivity, over the last few decades. Also known as the Lagrangian particle dispersion models (LPDMs), these models are capable of accurately predicting the dispersion of volcanic ash from a recent eruption of the Eyjafjallajkull volcano in Iceland (Lin et al. 2011). The LS models expand on the traditional trajectory model by adapting a more realistic representation of the particle dispersion in the planetary boundary layers, where turbulence is prevalent. Unlike Eulerian methods, LS methods do not have any artificial numerical diffusion, thus allowing the modeler to better resolve the spatial scales of the flow field. The adaptation of the LS technique to oceanographic applications occurred within the last 10-15 years, as ocean turbulence tends to be more inhomogeneous (especially in the vertical direction) and hence proves to be more challenging (Brickman and Smith, 2002). Some applications of the LS methods in oceanography include modeling the biological behaviors of fish eggs and larvae. More sophisticated LS models for ocean particle tracking have recently been developed; a recent study by Haza et al. (2007) demonstrated that the LS technique helps to reduce the error of the modeled particle trajectories in the coastal ocean. THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS STUDY INCLUDE:1. Develop a Lagrangian Stochastic Model (or modify an existing one) to simulate oil spill trajectories. 2. Conduct sensitivity tests and validation of modeled trajectories.3. Demonstrate its application to the Gulf of Mexico. HOW TO COMPETE FOR THIS CONTRACT: If your organization is interested in participating in this acquisition, please send your organizations name, point of contact, address, telephone and fax numbers, email address, and DUNS Number via email to herma.banks@boemre.gov at the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, Herndon, VA by 9:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Savings Time (EDST) on August 4, 2011. Those organizations expressing an interest in this opportunity will receive a copy of the complete solicitation upon issuance. Reference Solicitation No. M11PS00088 on all correspondence. Inquiries must be submitted in writing to the email address referenced above. Contracting Office Address: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, 381 Elden Street, MS 2101 Herndon, VA 20170 - Point of Contact: Herma J. Banks. 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