MODIFICATION
35 -- 30 SATELLITE TAGS
- Notice Date
- 5/10/2010
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- NAICS
- 541711
— Research and Development in Biotechnology
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Eastern Region Acquisition Division-KC, 601 East 12th Street, Room 1756, Kansas City, Missouri, 64106, United States
- ZIP Code
- 64106
- Solicitation Number
- NFFN7600-10-08387SLW01
- Archive Date
- 5/13/2010
- Point of Contact
- Sharon L. Walker, Phone: (816)426-7470
- E-Mail Address
-
sharon.walker@noaa.gov
(sharon.walker@noaa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- JUSTIFICATION There are at least 2 companies manufacturing marine pop-up satellite tags. Wildlife Computers Inc., in Redmond, WA, is the only company that can provide a tag that meets the above specifications. These specifications are essential to ensure the compatibility of results with earlier results of the same study; we have deployed 47 such tags thus far in our post-hooking mortality study for ESA-protected loggerhead sea turtles. Wildlife Computers is the only U.S. supplier that has popup satellite archival tags with operational protocols that ensure that even if the turtle they are put on dies, that scientists will get back the data transmitted through the ARGOS satellite system. These protocols include a mechanical failsafe system that releases the tag prior to the popup date if the turtle sinks past 1,500 m. Also, this tag (Brand name MK-10 PAT) has software that allows researchers to program the tag to release prior to its programmed date if the animal maintains a specified depth range for a particular time period. They also can be programmed to transmit intermittently while still attached to the turtle to provide data critical to using known-fate mark-recapture analysis methods. These specifications were competed by the government twice in the past (most recently in 2006) and Wildlife Computers was the that met these specifications.
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- Record
- SN02145229-W 20100512/100510234844-539bee08ad958ad9c18c141cf547b1fc (fbodaily.com)
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