SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- CCLME
- Notice Date
- 8/20/2009
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 541620
— Environmental Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NOAA/National Marine Fisheries Service, James J. Howard Marine Sciences Lab, 74 Magruder Road, Highlands, New Jersey, 07732, United States
- ZIP Code
- 07732
- Solicitation Number
- SWFSC-124
- Archive Date
- 9/26/2009
- Point of Contact
- pamela.g.jones, Phone: 8585467009
- E-Mail Address
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pamela.g.jones@noaa.gov
(pamela.g.jones@noaa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- NOTICE OF INTENT TO NEGOTIATE A SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT TO PROFESSOR RASHID SUMAILA, FISHERIES ECONOMICS RESEARCH UNIT, FISHERIES CENTRE, 2259 LOWER MALL, UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, VANCOUVER, BC V6T 1Z4, CANADA. THIS NOTICE OF INTENT IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS AND NO SOLICITATION PACKAGE IS AVAILABLE, HOWEVER, VENDORS THAT BELIEVE THEY CAN PROVIDE THE SAME LEVEL OF SERVICES THAT FULLY MEETS THE GOVERNMENTS REQUIREMENTS MAY SUBMIT SUBSTANTIATING DOCUMENTATION IN WRITING TO THE IDENTIFIED POINT OF CONTRACT WITHIN 15 DAYS AFTER PUBLICATION OF THIS SYNOPSIS, SUCH DOCUMENTATION WILL BE EVALUATED SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF DETERMINING WHETHER OR NOT TO CONDUCT THIS PROCUREMENT ON A COMPETITIVE BASIS. A DETERMINATION BY THE GOVERNMENT NOT TO CONDUCT A COMPETITIVE PROCUREMENT, BASED UPON RESPONSES TO THIS NOTICE, IS SOLELY WITHIN THE DISCRETION OF THE GOVERNMENTS. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE IN RESPONSE TO THIS NOTICE. THIS IS A SIMPLIFIED ACQUSITION WITH AN ESTIMATED VALUE OF LESS THAN $100,000. PURPOSE OF PROPOSED CONTRACT IS TO PROVIDE PHASE III OF THE ECOSYSTEM-ECONOMIC, "EC02" MODEL OF THE CALIFORNIA CURRENT ECOSYSTEM. I. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND: The problem is to find a coast-wide, ecosystem-based, cooperative harvesting strategy for Pacific Sardine Fisheries occurring within the u.s., Canada and Mexico that will increase total economic benefits, while minimizing the chance of a human induced collapse of the sardine resource, the related fisheries and sardine dependent components of the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem (CCLME). This project will address this concern by providing scientific information and an analytical framework to evaluate the ecological, economic and social tradeoffs and consequences under different policy senarios for the conservation and management of the Pacific sardine resource relative to its function within the CCLME. Addressing this problem requires an understanding of the interactions between the environment, the CCLME, and the related economic system, which includes the coastwide P. sardine fishery. To this end, work as begun on an intergrated, multi-species, ecosystem-economic model(eco2) of the CCLME, capable of evaluating the "big picture" economic impacts of different Pacific sardine fisheries futures. This work has already contributed, and its continuation is critical, to the development of the Pacific fishery Management Council's ecosystem-based fishery management plan. II WORK TO BE ACCOMPLISHED: The first phase of the overall eco2 modeling effort, to conceptualize and develop a structure for the model, and to identify the data requirements for estimating the model, is now complete. Phase II entailed specification, data compilation and estimation of the model, which up to now is a single species model. Phase iii is designed to assimilate the conceptual framwork developed so far into an operational intergrated ecosystem-economic system, fishery conservation and management model that is capable of evaluating various Pacific sardine fisheries conservation and managemtn scenarios. In Phase III particular attention will be paid to non-use values of sardines and sardine predators, in order to provide a comprehensive assessment of potential net benefits from sardines in the CCLME. In this regard, Phase III work will focus on the contribution of the P. sardine resource in tems of its havest and forage roles. Ultimately the goal is to expand the eco2 madel into a full-scale, fully intergrated model of the CCLME which will assist society in evaluating different policy secenarios, by identifying the flow of existing and potential economic, social and ecological benefits provided by the CCLME. Phase IV of this modeling effort will focus on estimating the tatal economic value of the CCLME. The proposed work will initiate phase III of the modeling effort. Phase III tasks that would be accomplished under the proposal include: 1. Expand the eco2 CCLME model, by incorporating a multispecies, Ecopath - Ecosim type component, to investigate the multispecies issues related to the role sardine play as forage in the CCLME. 2. Determine the data requirements and gaps associated with multispecies expansion of the eco2 modeling framework; 3. Provide preliminary estimates of market or use values from the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem. 4. Lay the theoretical foundation for incorporating non-use values into the expanded, multispecies eco2 modeling framework to account for the total economic value of the CCLME; 5. Determine data requirements and gaps for non-use values from the CCLME. Dr. Sumaila, is an internationally recognized fisheries economist with a keen interest in, and extensive knowledge of, ecosystem-based fisheries conservation and management. He has written a number of papers as well as participated in several recent international workshops on the topic. The proposed work is to develop Phase III of the eco2 model, to include additional species and eventually construct a fully integrated, comprehensive ecological-economic model of the California Current ecosystem. Professor Sumaila has already overseen the development of Phases I and II of the eco2 model. Therefore he is the only one readily qualified to do this work, and his involvement is crucial to assuring success of the project in a timely and efficient manner. No other sources/companies, etc. were researched because of the customized and unique nature of this project, which is to expand the fishery, integrated ecosystem-economic system conservation and management model already developed by Dr. Sumaila. Because of the required integration with the existing model, the proposed work cannot be accomplished by another individual or organization in a cost-effective manner; a sources-sought notice will not be issued. Based on the above, NOAA/SWFSC/NMFS, believes Dr. Sumila, is the only one who can meet the above requirements and is uniquely qualified to wor on this critical project. Period of performance is from September 15,2009 - 03/31/2011.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: 8604 LA JOLLA SHORES DRIVE, LA JOLLA, California, 92037, United States
- Zip Code: 92037
- Zip Code: 92037
- Record
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