SOLICITATION NOTICE
58 -- PROVIDE WILDLIFE COMPUTERS BRAND SATELLITE TAGS
- Notice Date
- 8/16/2004
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 334511
— Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Western Administrative Support Center, 7600 Sand Point Way, Northeast, Seattle, WA, 98115-6349
- ZIP Code
- 98115-6349
- Solicitation Number
- WASC-4-1304
- Response Due
- 8/31/2004
- Archive Date
- 9/15/2004
- Point of Contact
- Randall Brown, Purchasing Agent, Phone (206) 526-6226, Fax (206) 526-6025,
- E-Mail Address
-
randal.w.brown@noaa.gov
- Description
- THE NATIONAL MARINE MAMMAL LABORATORY (NMML) REQUIRES TWENTY-FIVE (25) SATELLITE-LINKED DATA ARCHIVAL TAGS TO STUDY THE MOVEMENTS, HAULOUT BEHAVIOR, AND DIVING BEHAVIOR OF ARCTIC ICE SEALS. ANIMAL BORNE INSTRUMENTS ARE USED TO RECORD BEHAVIORAL DATA OF THE INSTRUMENTED ANIMAL. WITH MARINE MAMMALS, THIS DATA CONSISTS OF MOVEMENTS AND DIVING/FORAGING BEHAVIOR (RECORDED AS DIFFERENCES IN WATER PRESSURE AT DEPTH). THESE INSTRUMENTS MUST BE SMALL, SO THAT THEY DO NOT AFFECT THE BEHAVIOR OF THE STUDY ANIMAL. THE INSTRUMENTS MUST ALSO BE DURABLE AND HAVE ENOUGH BATTERY LIFE TO LAST THE DURATION OF THE STUDY. ANIMALS THAT RELIABLY RETURN TO A KNOWN LOCATION AND/OR ARE EASILY CAPTURED ARE OFTEN INSTRUMENTED WITH A DEVICE THAT ARCHIVES DATA ONBOARD AND CAN ONLY BE RETRIEVED AFTER THE ANIMAL HAS BEEN RECAPTURED, THE INSTRUMENT REMOVED, AND THE DATA DOWNLOADED. ARCTIC ICE SEALS LIVE ON FREE-FLOATING PACK-ICE, ARE DIFFICULT TO CAPTURE, AND RARELY RETURN TO THE SAME LOCATION. IN LIEU OF PHYSICAL RECOVERY, ICE SEALS MUST BE INSTRUMENTED WITH A DEVICE THAT PERIODICALLY TRANSMITS COLLECTED DATA TO AN ORBITING SATELLITE. SUCH INSTRUMENTS ARE COLLECTIVELY CALLED SATELLITE TAGS. THE ARCTIC ICE SEAL RESEARCH REQUIRES THE USE OF SATELLITE TAGS WITH CERTAIN SPECIFICATIONS. THE SATELLITE TAGS MUST BE ABLE TO SAMPLE DEPTH EVERY TEN SECONDS, OPERATE TO A MAXIMAL DEPTH OF 1000 METERS, AND TRANSMIT ONLY WHEN THE ANTENNA IS CLEAR OF WATER (USING A CONDUCTIVITY SENSOR TO DETERMINE IF THE INSTRUMENT IS SUBMERGED). THE TRANSMISSIONS MUST BE COMPATIBLE WITH THE ARGOS SATELLITE SYSTEM. TRANSMISSIONS MUST INLCUDE STATUS MESSAGES FOR BATTERY VOLTAGE, THE NUMBER OF TRANSMISSIONS SENT, THE CURRENT ZERO-PRESSURE OFFSET VALUE, THE CURRENT TIME ACCORDING TO THE INTERNAL CLOCK, SEAWATER CONDUCTIVITY, AND THE MAXIMAL DEPTH READING OVER THE LAST TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. THE SATELLITE TAGS MUST BE PROGRAMMABLE AND ALLOW THE USER TO DEFINE SEVERAL ASPECTS OF DATA COLLECTION AND TRANSMISSION. DIVING DATA SHOULD BE COMPILED IN SIX-HOUR SAMPLING PERIODS IN THE COMPRESSIED HISTOGRAM, FORMAT COMMONLY USED IN MARINE MAMMAL RESEARCH. NMML REQUIRES THAT THREE DIFFERENT TYPES OF HISTOGRAMS BE AVAILABLE: MAXIMUM-DEPTH OF DIVES (DEPTH HISTOGRAM); DIVE DURATIONS (DURATION HISTOGRAM), AND TIME SPENT WTIHIN A SPECIFIED DEPTH RANGE (TIME-AT-DEPTH HISTOGRAM). DEPTH AND DURATION RANGES FOR THESE HISTOGRAMS MUST BE PROGRAMMABLE. THE SATELLITE TAGS SHOULD BE CONFIGURED WITH ENOUGH BATTERY POWER TO PROVIDE FOR APPROXIMATELY 25,000 TRANSMISSIONS. TO PROLONG THE OPERATIONAL LIFE OF THE SATELLITE TAGS, DATA TRANSMISSION FREQUENCY SHOULD BE PROGRAMMABLE. FOR EXAMPLE, NMML MAY REQUIRE TRANSMISSIONS TO BE SUSPENDED AFTER AN ANIMAL HAS BEEN ASHORE FOR SEVERAL HOURS AND, PRESUMABLY, ANY RECENT DATA HAS BEEN TRANSMITTED SUCCESSFULLY TO ARGOS SATELLITES. NMML MAY ALSO REQUIRE A CHANGE IN THE FREQUENCY OF THE TRANSMISSIONS BASED ON THE LIKELY POSITION OF ORBITING SATELLITES AT VARIOUS TIMES OF THE DAY OR ACCORDING TO SOME OTHER DUTY CYCLE. NMML REQUIRES WILDLIFE COMPUTERS BRAND ?SPLASH? TAGS. THE RESEARCH GOALS REQUIRE VERY SPECIFIC FEATURES TO BE INCLUDED IN THE DATA RECORDERS. ONLY THE SATELLITE-LINKED DATA RECORDERS MADE BY WILDLIFE COMPUTERS INCLUDE ALL OF THE NECESSARY SPECIALIZED FEATURES IN ONE UNIT. MOST IMPORTANTLY, THESE TAGS ARE SIMILAR IN DESIGN AND FUNCTION TO SATELLITE TAGS USED IN PREVIOUS AND ONGOING STUDIES AT NMML. QUANTITY TWENTY-FIVE (25) TAGS TO BE DELIVERED NO LATER THAN 3/31/05. THIS IS A SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION WITH AN ESTIMATED VALUE OF LESS THAN $100,000.
- Record
- SN00644438-W 20040818/040816211753 (fbodaily.com)
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