SOLICITATION NOTICE
20 -- Charter for an Ice Capable Antarctic Research & Supply Vessel
- Notice Date
- 3/19/2007
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 483212
— Inland Water Passenger Transportation
- Contracting Office
- National Science Foundation, Division of Acquisition and Cooperative Support, DACS, 4201 Wilson Boulevard Room475, Arlington, VA, 22230, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- DACS07P2178
- Response Due
- 5/1/2007
- Archive Date
- 5/16/2007
- Description
- Raytheon Technical Services Company LLC, Polar Services, (RPSC) will be soliciting proposals towards securing a charter for an ice capable Antarctic Research and Supply Vessel (ARSV) to operate in the Southern Ocean around the Antarctic Peninsula and other locations in support of the United States Antarctic Program (USAP). RPSC presently charters and provides science support staffing on the R/V LAURENCE M. GOULD and the R/V NATHANIEL B. PALMER for the National Science Foundation (NSF), an agency of the United States Government. On behalf of the NSF RPSC is pursuing the charter of a vessel to meet the oceanographic and logistics support requirements of the USAP. The vessel is to be chartered for a period of five (5) years with options for another five (5) years. The purpose of this announcement is to seek interested parties in industry capable of supplying a vessel to continue to provide services currently supported by the R/V LAURENCE M. GOULD. RPSC will be seeking proposals that include the building of a new ship or the reconditioning of an existing similar classed vessel. For reference purposes only, information regarding the GOULD may be found under Vessel Science and Operations at http://www.usap.gov/. The vessel will be required to operate frequently in the often extremely stormy waters south of Cape Horn in the Drake Passage with regular operations south of 60 degrees South Latitude and in sea ice to support oceanographic research and USAP logistics for Palmer Station and other field locations. The vessel must be seaworthy, fully found, appropriately classed, be able to provide a stable platform from which to conduct scientific research and comfortable enough to safely support personnel at sea for extended periods. Such remote operations necessarily require a reliable and well fitted vessel. Operations in support of scientific research and the requirement to re-supply and carry personnel to Palmer Station will be of equal importance within the technical requirements of the Request for proposal (RFP). It is anticipated that an RFP will be issued in June 2007. To receive the full RFP, industry is requested to provide ?Letters of Interest? by 1 May 2007 to: Raytheon Technical Services Company LLC, Polar Services, 7400 S. Tucson Way, Centennial, CO 80112-3938, Attn: Mr. Jim Weber Phone: 720-568-2343 Fax: 303-790-9129 Email: James.weber@usap.gov
- Record
- SN01254573-W 20070321/070319221411 (fbodaily.com)
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