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FBO DAILY - FEDBIZOPPS ISSUE OF JANUARY 18, 2013 FBO #4073
SOURCES SOUGHT

B -- DATA MANAGEMENT, ECOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT AND ANALYSIS, EMERGENCY RESPONSE, AND VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT FOR SANCTUARY ECOSYSTEM ASSESSMENT SURVEYS

Notice Date: 1/16/2013
Notice Type: Sources Sought
NAICS: 541990 — All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Contracting Office: Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Western Region Acquisition Division, 7600 Sand Point Way, Northeast, Seattle, Washington, 98115-6349
ZIP Code: 98115-6349
Solicitation Number: NCND6023-13-00266
Point of Contact: Mimi Antonio Hetzel, Phone: 206-526-6032
E-Mail Address: Mimi.A.Hetzel@noaa.gov
(Mimi.A.Hetzel@noaa.gov)
Small Business Set-Aside: N/A
Description: This is a SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS and is not a presolicitation announcement. The purpose of this Market Research and Sources Sought Notice is to gain knowledge of potential qualified Small Business, HUBZone, 8(a), Service Disabled Veteran owned, and Women owned Small Business firms. Responses to this Sources Sought Synopsis will be used by the Government in making appropriate acquisition decisions. NOAA's Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary (GFNMS) of the Office National Marine Sanctuaries has developed integrated ecosystem monitoring projects for sandy beaches, rocky shores and offshore areas of the Sanctuary. These monitoring projects collectively are called Sanctuary Ecosystem Assessment Surveys (SEAS). At least two of these projects include a volunteer-based, survey project called SEAS-Beach Watch and SEAS-Shoreline Marine Debris. The overall emphasis of the project is directed at the gathering of data, analysis and interpretation of the data for ecological assessment of natural resources, and making these data sets and databases available to sanctuary staff for interpretation and outreach products, relevance to management, other resource protection agencies, research institutions and the public. Specifically, GFNMS has a requirement for the administration, data integration, and interpretation of four (SEAS) projects, SEAS-Beach Watch (SEAS-BW), SEAS-Applied California Current Ecosystem Assessment Surveys (SEAS-ACCESS) monitoring project, SEAS-Rocky Intertidal (SEAS-RI), and SEAS-Shoreline Marine Debris (SEAS-SMD). It also has a requirement for the supervision of volunteers (for SEAS-BW and SEAS SMD) and interns in support of these monitoring projects. The emphasis will be focused on data integration with on-site data and offsite environmental and biological monitoring data sets. Natural resource protection and emergency response are primary uses of SEAS data. Therefore, SEAS analyses and findings are intrinsically integrated into planning and preparation for emergency response, carrying-out response and damage assessment activities, identification of resources at risk, controlling or mitigating human-use pressures either through permitting, oversight of management actions, and/or evaluation of restoration and mitigation measures. Data interpretation is also an emphasis in this requirement in order to provide interpreted data for education and outreach exhibits and programs, data base integration to merge data sets with outside monitoring projects that target birds, mammals, human activities that have impacts on sanctuary resources, mapping and geo-spatial analysis to view integrated data and human use activities, identification of natural resources at risk from anthropogenic pressures/impacts, and emerging issues. Responsibilities include: maintenance and upgrades to current data bases and data sets for four sanctuary projects: SEAS-BW, SEAS-ACCESS monitoring project, SEAS-RI, and SEAS-SMD; integration of data bases and data sets with other marine animal and habitat monitoring projects within and outside the sanctuary program; post interpreted findings of status, trends and overall health of seabirds, marine mammals, sea turtles, neritic and offshore habitats, and rocky intertidal and sandy shoreline habitats, including influences from anthropogenic pressures on natural resource abundance, distribution, mortality, and productivity, and biodiversity, and when applicable comparing impacts on biodiversity and across habitats from climate change and ocean acidification; integration of SEAS data sets; tracking and analyzing volunteer statistics; statistical and geo-spatial analyses of field sampling for birds, mammals, beach wrack, invertebrates, and human impacts; maintenance of a scientific data analysis work station at the GFNMS offices for visiting scientists. Findings shall be posted on the sanctuary web site, GFNMS Sanctuary Information and Monitoring Network (SIMoN) web site in the form of annual reports, independent and issue related tables, charts, maps, Google Earth and Google Ocean accounts and images by beach, habitat and/or region, podcasts and YouTube videos and slideshows. Other responsibilities include: volunteer recruitment and training when funding as available, volunteer supervision and recognition; production and distribution of volunteer program materials such as brochures when funding is available; management of permit reporting requirements; management of volunteer paperwork and distribution of permits; management of data and samples collected; maintenance of SEAS-BW on-line and workstation data entry and query programs, and data management programs for all SEAS projects in Excel, Access, ArcView; maintenance of digital images cataloging and archives for all SEAS monitoring projects; emergency response and damage assessment programs as they relate to monitoring programs; integration of SEAS data sets with other long-term monitoring projects at GFNMS, including biological and physical parameters. SEAS-Beach Watch is a volunteer-based shoreline-monitoring project targeting the status and trends of coastal birds and mammals and human use activities. The Beach Watch project has created a network of highly trained volunteers that are very knowledgeable about subtle changes along the Sanctuary's coastline. Beach Watch provides valuable data and findings on human impacts such as from oil pollution and disturbance, the natural variation of mortality events, and appropriate scaling and placement of restoration projects for birds and mammals. Approximately 80-100 volunteers and interns are used for this project. SEAS-Applied California Current Ecosystem Surveys is a coastal and offshore monitoring project targeting the status and trends of coastal and offshore birds, mammals, sea turtles, human uses and impacts such as ship and boating interactions, marine trash, likelihood of impacts from water column pollution, and identifying and understanding the ecological linkages between foraging areas and breeding areas. This project provides valuable data and findings on regional distribution of birds, mammals, their prey, primary productivity, scaling and ecological linkages between human actions such as oil pollution and dispersants, and provides appropriate scaling and placement of restoration projects for birds and mammals. Approximately 0-5 volunteers and interns are used for this project. SEAS-Rocky Intertidal is a rocky intertidal habitat-monitoring project targeting the status and trends of marine algae and invertebrates. It is important for sanctuary management to understand global climate change, such as impacts from ocean acidification (OA) and the rocky intertidal habitats is considered a "sentinel habitat" as an early indicator - early evidence of the strength and duration of impacts from OA will be seen in the rocky intertidal habitat. By understanding the influence of OA on the rocky intertidal habitat sanctuary management can better develop adaptive management actions that will incorporate impacts from climate change on the likelihood of successful restoration projects for other sanctuary resources such as seabirds and marine mammals. Approximately 0-5 volunteers and interns are used for this project. SEAS-Shoreline Marine Debris is a volunteer-based shoreline-monitoring project targeting the status and trends of coastal debris and trash that wash-up on sanctuary beaches from offshore sources. The Shoreline Marine Debris project is part of a West Coast wide network of highly trained volunteers that monitor the deposition and retention of marine debris along the Sanctuary's coastline. Shoreline Marine Debris provides valuable data and findings on sources of marine debris. Variable numbers of work hours per task should be anticipated to allow for part-time tasks for key personnel. It is anticipated that the majority of the requirement shall emphasize data collection, data entry, data management and data interpretation and posting of findings to web sites and for exhibits. Key personnel positions include: Data Collection and Logistics, Data Management and Analysis, Data Entry, Geographic Information Science, Species Identification Technicians, Expert Observers in the Field, Volunteer Coordination and Supervision, and Ecosystem Protection and Emergency Response. Data Collection Tasks Proper data collection is required for the aforementioned SEAS projects. Data collection tasks include logistics and planning of surveys (including carpooling, equipment and supplies transport, purchase of supplies and equipment), coordination of protocols and consistency of methodologies with other NOAA and sanctuary programs, organization of cruise participants (contract observers and volunteers), maintenance of oceanographic equipment, collection of various data sets (including CTD, thermosalinograph, scientific echosounder, bird/mammal observations, photos, voucher specimens, plankton samples and species identification lists), processing and storage of data, preparation of trip reports, permit reports and permit applications. Data Management, Analysis and Dissemination Tasks Annually update GFNMS main web site and GFNMS SIMoN web site on health of sanctuary natural resources, trends due to human pressures and environmental variables for SEAS-BW and SEAS-ACCESS projects. Contractor shall work with the sanctuary Research Coordinator and Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) to identify trends and variables found through the SEAS-RI and SEAS-SMD projects, pressures that are influencing rocky intertidal and sandy beach communities and that may also be affecting seabirds and marine mammals ranges and prey base, include analyses and interpretation of findings needed for specified events, e.g. oil spills, mortality event, marine debris from Northwest Pacific sources (e.g. Japan) or other events to be determined by the Research Coordinator and COR, oil spill and other emergency response and integration with other GFNMS long-term, biological and physical feature monitoring programs. Management of the SEAS-BW database shall be in Access and geospatial data sets are to be managed in ArcView 9.2. The SEAS-BW data sets include annual-seasonal, harbor seal ground counts (February through July) from researchers within Sonoma, Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo County haul-outs. Management of the SEAS-ACCESS, SEAS-RI, and SEAS-SMD data sets shall be in Excel spreadsheet format unless additional funding is appropriated to convert data sets to Access. Data shall be prepared for use in GIS mapping and spatial analysis. Contractor shall maintain a federally compliant and functional metadata directory for each of the four monitoring projects listed above in introduction. This workstation allows guidance for investigators on quality and scope of data collected; database query instructions for a wide variety of mathematical and statistical queries, and schedule and supervise visiting scientists interested in accessing and querying the Beach Watch data base, Applied California Current Ecosystem Surveys, Rocky Intertidal, and Shoreline Marine Debris data sets; standard set of geo-spatial queries - abundance (density and rate) and distribution of species, distance from feeding areas, ecological "hot-spots", breeding and roosting areas, correlation/regression analyses. Metadata directories for each project shall include but not limited to collection parameters, implementation time frames, QA/QC procedures, implementation and cancellation dates of protocols, and parameters definitions. Database and data sets shall be corrected and updated for marine mammal carcasses removed by the Marine Mammal Stranding Network. Metadata for each of the four projects must be compliant with Federal Geospatial Data Committee (FGDC) guidelines. Contractor shall use the Integrated Taxonomic Information System nomenclature (ITIS) standardization for all taxon. Database and data set structures shall be consistence with other GFNMS long-term monitoring programs and be revised as needed. Contractor shall also be available to work with GFNMS GIS technician for spatial analyses and mapping needs. Contractor shall work with GFNMS Geospatial Information Technician and web master to allow on-line data query and analysis and integration with similar data sets and databases from non-GFNMS originated projects. Contractor shall work with COR to integrate all SEAS data sets, providing consistent data structure and nomenclature; Contractor shall work with GFNMS COR, Education Coordinator and web master to update new findings for each of the four SEAS projects listed in the introduction, announce and promote the availability of the data and workstation to potential researchers, integrate environmental data sets with biological data collected through the SEAS projects. Place species list, corresponding photos and species density, sighting rates, percent cover or other appropriate metrics, on GFNMS-SIMoN web site, Marine Life Protection Act mapping section on GFNMS-SIMoN, Central and Northern California Ocean Observing System web site and their data management efforts, California Avian Data Center (CADC) and Ocean Biogeographic Information System Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations (OBIS SEAMAP) and OBIS USA web sites. Contractor shall produce Google Earth maps with species lists and density data, update findings for outreach brochures and exhibits, produce 2-3 minutes podcast video/slide show to be posted on GFNMS web site and YouTube, update NOAA Library with new digital images, link databases and data sets to NOAA Library through the NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center, and transfer cetacean identification data images to the National Marine Mammal Laboratory. Train and supervise data entry volunteers and interns. Contractor shall be responsible for maintaining the on-line data entry and data query web pages. The Sanctuary's goal is to have 90% of the volunteers entering their data on-line. Contractor shall track data query usage and report number of queries and uses of data. Contractor shall also be prepared to provide on-site data queries for federal and state marine resource management agencies and academia, and shall track users of data sets. Attend volunteer training and appreciation events and programs when they are related to data entry procedures, analyses, interpretation or ecological integration. Assist with public outreach pertaining to any of the SEAS projects, two times each year. Revise quality assurance and quality control procedures, as they relate to data entry or data interpretation, and report findings annually. As part of the QA/QC measures, contractor shall update the metadata directory and guidelines for the Visiting Scientist's Work Station. The contractor shall provide annual reports on each of the SEAS projects listed in the introduction and at least one peer reviewed paper every three years, on any one of the SEAS projects. Complete wildlife band and tag sighting forms. Quarterly, provide originals to Sanctuary Research Coordinator and maintain file of photocopies. Track collections of samples collected under various permits and provide annually spreadsheet on samples collected to Sanctuary Research Coordinator. Data Manager shall provide data management needs to incorporate new SEAS-Beach Watch segments, to be established between Bodega Head and Point Arena. A minimum of three and a maximum of ten new beach segments shall be established between Bodega Head and Point Arena. Contractor shall work with sanctuary Research Coordinator to determine the location and length of new survey segments, determine access points, and beach profile locations and provide all needed updates to current SEAS-Beach Watch maps. Resource Protection and Emergency Response Tasks Natural resource protection and emergency response are primary uses of SEAS data. Therefore, SEAS analyses and findings are intrinsically integrated into planning and preparation for emergency response, carrying-out response and damage assessment activities, identification of resources at risk, controlling or mitigating human-use pressures either through permitting, oversight of management actions, and/or evaluation of restoration and mitigation measures. Resource Protection and Emergency Response tasks include an understanding of incident response and monthly participation in vessel spill and grounding response planning and incident response through the San Francisco Bay Area Contingency Planning (ACP) process, incident documentation and follow-up, field response and evidence collection, and review of point-source and non-point pollution events. Resource protection includes: the understanding and the use of SEAS data to identify areas of highest oil or other contaminant pollution; mortality trends and additional anthropogenic factors that may limit protection of or recovery from impacts to natural resources; resources at risk from pollution and disturbance; baseline and trend of sensitive wildlife, oil pollution and vessel groundings; impacts from oil and other contaminant pollution; impacts from the use and non-use of advanced response technologies on sanctuary wildlife and habitats; and short-term and cumulative impacts from permitted activities or otherwise prohibited activities. Geographic Information Science (GIS) Tasks Contractor shall provide necessary geospatial analyses and mapping products and also be available to work with GFNMS GIS technician for spatial analyses and mapping needs. Funding is limited for this task to one or two SEAS annual reports. Contractor shall work with GFNMS GIS Technician and web master to allow on-line data query, analysis, update tables, charts and maps of species and human activities for resources at risk analysis. Contractor shall provide data for mapping queries as directed by COR. At minimum contractor shall provide maps for geospatial and temporal analyses: including epidemiological, population factors, distance to offshore areas of ecological significance, distance to feeding areas, oil spill and dispersant application areas, roosting/haul-out areas and breeding areas. Contractor shall provide mapping needs to expand SEAS-Beach Watch project between Bodega Head and Point Arena. A minimum of three and a maximum of ten new beach segments shall be established. Contractor shall develop maps of new survey segments, determine access points, beach profile locations, describe beach surface and substrate using current SEAS-Beach Watch definitions, and provide all needed updates to current SEAS-Beach Watch maps. Data Entry Tasks Data from the Beach Watch project shall be entered and checked for a minimum of 26 beach segments, beginning with October 1 and ending with September 30, annually. Data from the Rocky Intertidal project shall be entered and checked within in one week of data collection. It is anticipated that intertidal data collection shall take place for one week during the months of August, November and February, with some flexibility in timing for appropriate tides and safety. Data for the SEAS-ACCESS project shall be entered/logged while under way for environmental data, birds, mammals, turtles, marine debris and vessel activities. Data for phytoplankton, krill and water chemistry shall be entered within one year after collection. Data for the SEAS-SMD project shall be entered and submitted to Sanctuary Research Coordinator every six months. Data shall also be entered for special shoreline or reconnaissance surveys for a maximum of two additional survey-days per event. Contractors can anticipant zero to three special survey requests per year. Special surveys include additional, regional surveys due to boat groundings, mortality events, oil spills and drills. Data shall include all monitoring and survey data collected on survey forms as well as specimens and samples collected. These samples include oil, oiled wildlife and samples collected for post-mortem examination. Data entry personnel shall assist Data Manager in training and supervising volunteers on the use and maintenance of the on-line data entry system to be developed by the government for the Beach Watch and Shoreline Marine Debris data. Manage photographic data collected. This includes cataloging and checking slides for accuracy and collating the slides with the data sheets. Management of the photographic documentation shall be done on a monthly basis and include a computerized log of obtained data. Catalog and check survey forms and slides for accuracy and collating the slides with the data sheets. Correct survey forms and database as needed. All data shall be entered and checked. Advanced Technical Review of Bird & Mammal Identification Provide for an advanced, technical review of all bird identifications, including aging and sexing specimens from photographic/digital image catalogs. Sanctuary staff shall assist contractor in advanced and technical review of stranded (dead) fish and mammals. Expert Observers in the Field Provide for expert, technical observations of all bird, mammal, fish, and sea turtle identifications, including aging, sexing, morphological variations, and behavior of live specimens during all SEAS monitoring projects. Sanctuary staff shall assist contractor in advanced and technical field observations, as funding allows. It is anticipated that multiple observers will be required during any one field observation session. Volunteer Coordination Tasks Manage all aspects of volunteer coordination including: training and enrichment and continuing education classes, acknowledgement and appreciation of volunteer contributions, scheduling of speakers, providing teaching and studying materials for classroom use, field aids and web site learning and more. Recruitment and training for the SEAS-ACCESS, SEAS-RI, and SEAS-SMD projects are on as needed basis. Training for volunteers for these three projects is minimal. We anticipate approximately 4 hours of training pertaining to data recording, overview of tasks and sampling schedule, and post-sampling follow-up. Volunteer Supervision Review quality of work and skill level of volunteers. Assess in the-field-skills at least 30% of the volunteers annually. Maintain a computerized monitoring schedule for all volunteers working on the Beach Watch and Shoreline Marine Debris projects. The projects must indicate which volunteers are conducting a specified monitoring task and the date and location that the task(s) will be conducted. Contractor shall update the monitoring schedule every two months or less frequently when changes are not applicable. Provide a copy of the monitoring schedule to each GFNMS employee. The Sanctuary Research Coordinator will provide updated monitoring protocols to the volunteer coordination team to be included in manuals. The contractor will be responsible for updating phone numbers, project logistics, and tracking volunteer and intern hours. Revisions to the project manuals will be completed by 30 June each year recruitment and training shall be held. Assist with public outreach of the volunteer projects two times each year. Provide coordination for annual volunteer appreciate event. Coordinate with the Research Coordinator and Data Manager the use of volunteers during emergency response and natural resource damage assessment surveys, as needed. New Volunteer Recruitment and Training A list of current volunteers for all SEAS projects will be supplied to the contractor after award of contract. New volunteers shall be recruited only if the current roster of volunteers has dropped below the stated minimum number. Recruit volunteers for the Beach Watch project, annually as needed and only when additional funding has been obtained. Minimum of 80 volunteers are required for the Beach Watch project, 0-5 volunteers or interns for the SEAS-ACCESS, SEAS-RI projects, and 10-16 volunteers for the SEAS-SMD project. Recruitment for Beach Watch shall begin 45 days prior to commencement of required training; training for Beach Watch shall begin during August or September of each year, as needed and as funding allows. Recruitment and training of volunteers and interns for SEAS-ACCESS, SEAS-RI, and SEAS-SMD are on an as needed basis and as funding allows. Design and host one to three orientations to recruit new volunteers; work with the Sanctuary's Public Relations Officer to develop and coordinate public announcements requesting volunteers and advertising the volunteer monitoring projects. Trainings Training shall include a minimum of 68 hours for Beach Watch and include but not limited to introduction to the project and GFNMS, philosophy, goals, and objectives for monitoring project, monitoring techniques, equipment use, proper use and interpretation of the forms and data, oil spill response and collection of oil samples as evidence, identification in the field of both live and dead marine mammals and coastal birds of North America and more. Training for the Shoreline Marine Debris project shall include a minimum of 4 hours and include but not limited to introduction to the project and GFNMS, philosophy, goals, and objectives for monitoring project, monitoring techniques, equipment use, proper use and interpretation of the forms and data, evaluation of training by volunteers. Data Management Integration Coordinate with the data management team the review and cataloging of data, survey forms, and photographic documentation, as needed throughout the year. Manage and keep current all files associated with the training projects. Volunteer Communications Be available to communicate on a daily basis with all volunteers, including receiving phone calls and e-mail inquiries from volunteers and potential volunteers that contact the GFNMS office, monthly updating the volunteers on the project and GFNMS, and updating the "volunteer information" or email notifications and work with sanctuary outreach to update electronic-newsletter to all sanctuary volunteers. Minimum Qualification Factors Contractor must have at least 10,000 hours (five years) performing coastal/marine resource and environmental impact analysis, conducting regulatory review, and implementing NEPA or CEQA-compliant documents. Contractor must have at least 2,000 hours emergency response planning and natural resource damage assessment. Contractor Key Personnel staff must have 24-hour hazardous materials training and Incident Command structure training, e.g. 24-hour HazWOPER training and current 8-hour recertification, Incident Command Structure 100, 200, 700 and 800. Contractor must have at least 40 hours experience working within an Incident Command structure, within the Environmental Unit with Operation Division. Experience coordinating, working with, and reviewing the quality of work for a large number of volunteers. Contractor must be able to demonstrate to have at least 800 hours of training and coordinating at least 50 volunteers, simultaneously and be capable of supervising 80-150 volunteers. Contractor must be able to demonstrate their ability to identify all live and dead (whole and partial carcasses) coastal and offshore seabirds, shorebirds of the north eastern Pacific, five species of pinnipeds of the north eastern Pacific, the gray, humpback, blue, fin, minke and sperm whales, harbor and Dall's porpoises, long and short-beaked common dolphin, Risso's dolphin, northern right whale dolphin, and Pacific white-sided dolphin. Contractor must have the ability to provide advanced technical review (QA/QC) of volunteer's bird identification. Advanced technical review shall include the ability to identify over 400 bird species found along the entire coast of the Pacific. Ability to determine age and sex of whole birds from photographic samples is also required. Contractor must have at least 1,300 hours of experience entering and interpreting data compiled by volunteers conducting marine mammal and coastal bird surveys and behavioral observations. Contractor must have at least 600 hours of experience developing data spread sheet programs in Access, and converting data to the following database/spreadsheet software: Excel, dBase III, dBase IV, and Fox Pro in DOS. A demonstration of their work will be required. Contractor must be able to demonstrate their ability to conduct spatial analysis on marine physical and biological data; ability to design, develop and maintain large and complex databases following federal protocols and policies; the ability to manage complex projects involving multidisciplinary data sets; ability to communicate effectively in person and in writing. Contractor must have at least 1,300 hours of (GIS) experience developing biological, geospatial data queries in ArcView X, and be knowledgeable of the most current version of ArcView software, ArcView 9.2 and data structure compatible with netCDF. A demonstration of geospatial maps/products shall be required. Position Qualifications This work requires a good working knowledge of (GIS) geospatial analyses, statistical and geolocated databases and spreadsheets, including Arc View and Access, data entry, and marine biology, emphasizing marine mammalogy and seabird ornithology. Advanced knowledge of and experience in managing a program and working with people is required. The ability to identify both live and dead California coastal birds and mammals in various states of decomposition is required. Advanced knowledge of identification of bird carcasses is required. The ability to identify marine mammals is a needed skill. The ability to convey scientific information to school children and adults, using web sites and Power Point presentations. Experience with graphic design and layout is necessary. The ability to convert database spreadsheet information to Arc View is necessary. The period of performance is anticipated to be from June 2013 to June 2014, plus 4 one-year option periods thereafter. The North American Industry Classification Code (NAICS) is 541990 with a size standard of $14M. Interested firms shall provide, in writing, a brief narrative (no more than 8 pages in length) and documentation to support your firm's capability and experience meeting the requirements herein and include your firm's name, address, point of contact, telephone number, DUNS Number, CCR Cage Number, business type and size, i.e., small, large, non-profit, educational, and so forth. Any response that does not include this information will not be considered. The Government will review your response to determine if your firm has the experience, knowledge and capability to perform the services as specified above. This request for information does not constitute a commitment, implied or otherwise, that a procurement action will be issued. Nor does this request for information constitute a commitment, implied or otherwise that any procurement action that may be issued for the Government's requirements. No entitlement to payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by the Government will arise as a result of the submission of contractor's information. The Government shall not be liable for or suffer any consequential damages for proprietary information not properly identified. Proprietary information will be safeguarded in accordance with the applicable Government regulations. All contractors doing business with the Government are required to be registered with the System for Award Management (SAM). NOTE: THIS SYNOPSIS IS NOT CONSIDERED A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL BUT A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ONLY. No solicitation document is available. No contract will be awarded on the basis of responses received to this notice. Detailed information must be submitted by email to the Contract Specialist, Mimi Antonio Hetzel at mimi.a.hetzel@noaa.gov by 2:00 PM local Seattle time (PST), on Thursday, January 31, 2013. Questions of any nature must be addressed in writing as TELEPHONE INQUIRIES WILL NOT BE HONORED.
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