SPECIAL NOTICE
B -- NOTICE OF INTENT TO NEGOTIATE A SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT
- Notice Date
- 4/25/2005
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- 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
- Reference-Number-WASC-5-542
- Response Due
- 5/11/2005
- Archive Date
- 5/26/2005
- Description
- NOTICE OF INTENT TO NEGOTIATE A SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (UW) FOR THE USDOC/NOAA/NW FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER (NWFSC). PURPOSE OF PROPOSED CONTRACT IS ONE OF THIRTEEN PRIMARY TASKS UNDER THE ONGOING (2001-2007) NOAA PROPOSAL TO THE U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS ENTITLED ?ESTUARINE HABITAT AND JUVENILE SALMON ? CURRENT AND HISTORIC: LINKAGES IN THE LOWER COLUMBIA RIVER AND ESTUARY.? SPECIFICALLY, OBJECTIVE OF PROPOSED CONTRACT IS TO CHARACTERIZE HISTORICAL CHANGES IN FLOW AND SEDIMENT INPUT TO THE COLUMBIA RIVER ESTUARY AND CHANGE IN HABITAT AVAILABILITY THROUGHOUT THE LOWER RIVER AND ESTUARY. NWFSC IS GENERATING HISTORIC HABITAT MAPS FOR THE ESTUARY FROM TOPOGRAPHIC SURVEYS (T-SHEETS) CONDUCTED IN THE LATE 1800S AT A SCALE OF 1:10,000. THESE MAPS PROVIDE THE HISTORIC TEMPLATE FOR HABITAT ANALYSIS BY EVALUATING CHANGES IN THE GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION, AMOUNTS, AND CLASSES OF ESTUARINE AND FLOODPLAIN HABITAT TO JUVENILE SALMONIDS FROM THE ESTUARY MOUTH TO ROOSTER ROCK. IN 2002, A PROTOCOL WAS DEVELOPED TO RECONSTRUCT THE HISTORICAL HABITAT IN A GIS TO GENERATE A GEOGRAPHICALLY CORRECT SEAMLESS COVERAGE OF THE ENTIRE ESTUARY AT A RESOLUTION HIGHER THAN THE EXISTING MAP DATA. IN ADDITION, NWFSC DEVISED A PROTOCOL FOR HABITAT CHANGE ANALYSIS WITH THE AID OF COLUMBIA RIVER ESTUARY STUDY TASKFORCE (CREST), LOWER COLUMBIA RIVER ESTUARY PROGRAM (LCREP), AND EARTH DESIGN CONSULTANTS INC. (EDC). SELECT REACHES IN THE ESTUARY WERE CHOSEN, BASED ON GEOMORPHOLOGIC CHARACTERISTICS, AS PILOT SITES TO DEMONSTRATE THE HISTORIC HABITAT GIS MAPS AND STATISTICS DEMONSTRATING RESULTS OF THE HABITAT CHANGE ANALYSIS. IN THE PAST YEAR, NWFSC EXPANDED THE HABITAT RECONSTRUCTION TO THE ENTIRE ESTUARY AND DEVELOPED THE HISTORIC HABITAT CHANGE ANALYSIS TO REGIONS NOT YET EXAMINED. WORK UNDER PROPOSED CONTRACT WILL INCLUDE IMPLEMENTING PROTOCOL FOR HABITAT RECONSTRUCTION ON THE REMAINING T-SHEETS TO PRODUCE COMPLETE GIS COVERAGE OF THE HISTORIC ESTUARINE HABITATS, MERGING T-SHEETS AND H-SHEETS FOR LOWER ESTUARY FOR HISTORICAL MODELING, CONTINUING OVERSIGHT OF THE DIGITIZING PROCESS OF BOTH T-SHEETS AND H-SHEETS BY THE SUBCONTRACTOR, AND CONDUCTING SPATIAL ANALYSES AND ERROR ASSESSMENTS, PREPARING METADATA, AND DEVELOPING INTERPRETIVE REPORT ON HISTORICAL STRUCTURE AND HISTORIC CHANGE. PROPOSED WORK IS A FOLLOW-ON TO PREVIOUS CONTRACT PERFORMED BY UW. ALL PROPOSED SOURCES MAY SUBMIT A PROPOSAL WHICH SHALL BE CONSIDERED BY THE AGENCY. THIS IS A SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION WITH AN ESTIMATED VALUE OF LESS THAN $100,000.
- Place of Performance
- Address: SEATTLE, WA
- Record
- SN00795011-W 20050427/050425211702 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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