SOLICITATION NOTICE
N -- Electronic Monitoring Systems for the Gulf of Alaska Pacific Halibut and Sablefish Fishing Vessels
- Notice Date
- 6/14/2012
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541620
— Environmental Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Western Acquisition Division-Boulder, 325 Broadway - MC3, Boulder, Colorado, 80305-3328, United States
- ZIP Code
- 80305-3328
- Solicitation Number
- RA133F-12-RP-0105
- Archive Date
- 9/28/2012
- Point of Contact
- Chad M. Hepp, Phone: 303-497-3443
- E-Mail Address
-
Chad.M.Hepp@noaa.gov
(Chad.M.Hepp@noaa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- DESCRIPTION: NOAA's Acquisition & Grants Office, Western Acquisition Division-Boulder, in support of the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) seeks potential vendors to provide, install, maintain, and remove electronic monitoring (EM) systems for 40 to 57.5 foot (overall length) fishing vessels in the Pacific halibut and sablefish longline fisheries in the Gulf of Alaska. The overall goal of this project is to develop an EM system to meet the data needs of fishery managers and be responsive to the needs and constraints of the small boat fleet in the Gulf of Alaska Pacific halibut and sablefish longline fisheries. The vendor's primary responsibility will be to provide the equipment, infrastructure and personnel to support the production of digital video which will be recording gear retrieval on longline vessels of 40 ft. to 57.5 ft. designated by NMFS to use EM systems. Specifically, the vendor will develop and install an electronic monitoring and recording system to collect unedited, continuous, digital video of all gear retrieval during fishing events occurring over a three month period in all types of weather and lighting conditions on each of these vessels. The EM system will be installed on up to 15 vessels designated for EM by NMFS staff in each calendar quarter. The resolution of the video must allow counts of individual fish and identification to the lowest taxonomic level possible, preferably to species. The digital video (hereafter deliverable) will be correlated with GPS location data and a time/date stamp in each frame. The deliverable will be formatted as open source digital video such as, but not limited to AVI, MPEG, or MOV without requiring third party plug-ins for maximal interactivity. The deliverable will be accessible by NMFS staff to review, annotate and archive hook counts as well as target and discard species counts. Multiple cameras may be needed for each EM system to capture these views at the required resolution. NMFS staff will retrieve the deliverable from each of the designated vessels without assistance from the contactor on swappable hard drives provided by the contractor. The vendor's secondary responsibility is to provide technical assistance to the vessels designated by NMFS with EM systems. Technical assistance may be provided via cell phone pending the designated vessels' cell phone provider coverage unless technical resolution necessitates a physical visit to the vessel at a port agreed upon by both the vessel and the contractor. TENTATIVE SOLICITATION ISSUE DATE: July 05, 2012 TENTATIVE PROPOSAL DUE DATE: July 26, 2012 ANTICIPATED AWARD DATE: August 24, 2012 PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: NOAA anticipates awarding a contract with a one year base and 4 one year option periods. CONTRACTOR REGISTRATION: To be eligible for award, a contractor must (1) be registered in the Central Contractor Registry at www.ccr.gov and (2) must complete the Online Representations and Certifications Application at https://orca.bpn.gov/. All offerors must have a Dun & Bradstreet Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) identifier. A DUNS number may be acquired free of charge by contacting Dun & Bradstreet at (800) 333-0505 or online at https://eupdate.dnb.com, then click on "D&B D-U-N-S Number". All responses to this notice may be submitted via e-mail to Chad Hepp, Contracting Officer, at Chad.M.Hepp@noaa.gov. The phone number for the Contracting Officer is (303) 497-3443.
- Web Link
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(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOC/NOAA/MASC/RA133F-12-RP-0105/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Four Alaskan ports which include Kodiak, Sitka, Homer, and Petersburg., Alaska, United States
- Record
- SN02775374-W 20120616/120614234953-84e35056db631f05fc5542e37833a019 (fbodaily.com)
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