SPECIAL NOTICE
F -- Acquire various data sets, photographs, biogeographic data and other analyzed data to support the existing data and need of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers National Wetland Plant List (NWPL)
- Notice Date
- 6/3/2009
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 561990
— All Other Support Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army Engineer Research & Development Center (ERDC), Cold Regions Research Engineer Lab (CRREL), U.S. Army Engineer Research & Development Center (ERDC), Cold Regions Research Engineer Lab (CRREL), 72 Lyme Road, Hanover, NH 03755-1290
- ZIP Code
- 03755-1290
- Solicitation Number
- W913E509T0010
- Archive Date
- 9/1/2009
- Point of Contact
- Lou Ann Duffy, 603/646-4280<br />
- E-Mail Address
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U.S. Army Engineer Research & Development Center (ERDC), Cold Regions Research Engineer Lab (CRREL)
(lou.ann.duffy@usace.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Notification is provided of the intention of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) to issue on a sole source basis a firm fixed-price simplified acquisition procurement purchase order to Biota of North America Program (BONAP) located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina under the authority of 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1). Contract is for a base year with four option year periods. This order is to acquire various data sets, photographs, biogeographic data and other analyzed data to support the existing data and need of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers National Wetland Plant List (NWPL). Data shall be provided on a quarterly basis in a digital database format for conversion to an Oracle database structure. All data for newly proposed or existing wetland plants or species shall be linked to the current scientific names and any needed synonymy shall accompany the scientific name. Data may be required in the form of lists of species or habitats that species occur in nationally. Data may require the inclusion of new lists of wetland species, new distribution patterns by boroughs, ecoregions or physiographic areas, assess nomenclature for newly proposed species and add biological data for use in the NWPL. Required Services/Deliverables for Base Year Period: 1) Contractor shall supply new phytogeographic data at the borough level for the state of Alaska wetland plants. 2) Contractor shall supply a list of approximately 650 additional wetland plant taxa to the existing NWPL based on the Contractors observations of available literature and field experience. 3) Contractor shall evaluate and provide a nomenclatural and taxonomic assessment of the 2005 Hawaiian/Marianas wetland plant list (approximately 3,380 taxa) along with all associated biological and phytogeography data. 4) Contractor shall supply new data as required in response to newly proposed wetland plant species. 5) Contractor shall perform nomenclatural assessments as required on the current or modified NWPL. 6) Contractor shall supply, to the degree possible, 1-4 photographs, new distributional data, lists of categories of species or plant variables, and lists of newly proposed wetland plants submitted for inclusion into the NWPL. 7) Contractor shall provide additional biological data for newly proposed wetland plants required to be added to the NWPL that matches prior submitted wetland plants and their associated biological attributes data. 8) Contractor shall evaluate nomenclature and taxonomy for all newly proposed wetland taxa, and provide updated data to include all appropriate synonyms. 9) Contractor shall evaluate and provide additional data fields maintained by the Contractor associated with the wetlands assessment. 10) Contractor shall evaluate phytogeographic and biological data associated with watershed and any other landscape patterns. Notice closes 17 June 2009. POC Lou Ann Duffy at 603-646-4280 or lou.ann.duffy@usace.army.mil.
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