SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- Improving Aerial Line Transect Distance Sampling Methods and Analysis Software
- Notice Date
- 9/3/2009
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- Contracting Office
- Contracting and General Services 1011 East Tudor RoadMail Stop 171 Anchorage AK 99503
- ZIP Code
- 99503
- Solicitation Number
- 701819Q461
- Response Due
- 9/10/2009
- Archive Date
- 9/3/2010
- Point of Contact
- Margie Rhodes Contract Specialist 9077863413 Margie_Rhodes@FWS.gov;
- E-Mail Address
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Point of Contact above, or if none listed, contact the IDEAS EC HELP DESK for assistance
(EC_helpdesk@NBC.GOV)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This notice is being prepared in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 5.203(a). The response date of this announcement is September 11, 2009 at 11:00 am Alaska local time The NAISC Classification Code for this requirement is 54171. NOTE: This announcement is not the formal request for quote and does not contain all information pertaining to the requirement. Interested parties wishing to obtain a copy of the solicitation package (701819Q461) are to visit the solicitation line posted along the side of this announcement, which will route to the Interior Department IDEAS-EC website containing all colicitation materials. Overview: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is soliciting for quotes for the National Wildlife Refuges in Alaska. The contractor will collect, compile, analyze the density of large animals using aerial line transect surveys and distance sampling, where the distance from the transect to each detected animal group is measured and used to estimate a detection function (see review in Buckland 2001). An approach supporting such unimodal detection functions exists (Becker and Quang 2009) and has been made into a package for the free statistical analysis software R (Reynolds in prep). However, the Service has identified a number of software changes that promise to improve the method in terms of ease of use, increase the precision of the density estimates, and greatly expand the data collection protocols to which it can be applied. WORK DESCRIPTIONTask 1: Modify software as outlined in SOWTask 2: Modify software and assess estimators as outlined in SOWTask 3: Modify software and analyse Alaska Peninsula/Becharof 2008 Tundra Swan data as outlined in SOWTask 4: Respond to review comments and complete final reports as outlined in SOW Delivery for final comprehensive reports along with supporting R scripts and relevant data objects, by 15 Sept 2010. FOB Destination: Anchorage, AK. Interested parties wishing to respond to the forthcoming solicitation are encouraged to visit www.fbo.gov often and download related solicitation information. Vendors wishing to responds to this announcement may contact the contracting officer listed within this announcement by calling (907) 786-3413, or send a written request noting solicitation No. 70181-9-Q461, via fax to (907) 786-3923. Email requests are also encouraged by email to Margie_Rhodes@fws.gov. The anticipated award shall be a firm fixed price contract. See Numbered Notes 13 and 22.
- Web Link
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FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOI/FWS/CGSWO/701819Q461/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Anchorage, Alaska
- Zip Code: 995036199
- Zip Code: 995036199
- Record
- SN01939028-W 20090905/090904000245-c1ae65e10f2412d54a532c1ec564612a (fbodaily.com)
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