Definitive Contract 140E0121C0004
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- The Department of the Interior Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement awarded a $440,745.00 firm fixed-price definitive contract to the University of Maryland, College Park to conduct research on the efficient remediation of oil spills over water using fire whirls. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, was awarded on September 13, 2017 with a completion date of March 12, 2019. The University of Maryland, College Park is serving as the prime contractor, with Worcester...
- The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), a civilian agency within the Department of the Interior, awarded a $486,951 firm-fixed-price definitive contract to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) for a 36-month project titled "Examining Droplet Coalescence Behavior Resulting from Subsea Mechanical Dispersion (SSMD)." The contract, which does not utilize a set-aside, was awarded on October 1, 2024, with a completion date of September 30, 2027. The...
- This $386,627.11 firm fixed price contract was awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) to the American University of Beirut (AUB) to conduct research on remote sensing technologies for detecting oil under or encapsulated in ice in Arctic environments. The contract was awarded under BSEE's Broad Agency Announcement 140E0119R0017 seeking advancements in above-water remote sensing capabilities to enable oil spill response operations...
- The Department of the Interior Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (DOI BSEE) awarded a $129,779 delivery order contract to Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) Southwest Division to conduct SKIMMER DIELECTRIC TESTS at the Ohmsett facility in Leonardo, New Jersey. As the prime contractor, ARA will perform testing from September 2023 through January 2024 under a time and materials contract pricing structure. The DOI BSEE utilizes the Ohmsett facility to test oil spill response...
- The Department of the Interior Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (DOI BSEE) awarded a $23,588 firm fixed price delivery order contract to Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) Southwest Division for OHMSETT BALAENA testing services scheduled to take place in August through November 2023 at the OHMSETT facility located in Leonardo, New Jersey. As the leading independent test basin for offshore oil and gas technologies, OHMSETT will support BSEE's regulatory testing and research...
- The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) awarded a $382,526.64 firm-fixed-price contract to Serco Inc. for an oil spill boom computational fluid dynamics and physical modeling study. The purpose of the project is to investigate how computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling and physical scaled model testing can predict full-scale performance of towed oil containment boom systems, which are a primary technique for offshore oil spill response. The 12-month contract does not...
- The Department of the Interior Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (DOI BSEE) awarded a $81,532 firm fixed price delivery order contract to Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) Southwest Division for OHMESTT oil response equipment. ARA will obtain fluid testing systems from subcontractor Lamor USA Corporation to support the project. Performance will take place in Leonardo, New Jersey from August 2023 through January 2024. The DOI BSEE oversees safety and environmental regulation...
- This federal contract was awarded by the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BSEE) to the University of Delaware. The contract, with a potential value of $186,244, is for research on "Advanced Wake Loss Modeling for Large Wind Farms with Variable Wind Speed and Direction" under BSEE's Technology Assessment Program (TAP). This award is part of a larger Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) under which BSEE solicited white papers on several topics related to wind...
- The University of Oklahoma, doing business as the University's Office of Research Administration, was awarded a $385,330 firm fixed price purchase order by the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. The contract calls for the evaluation of mud gas separator performance criteria and design parameters over a 12-month period to ensure the safe venting of gases from offshore oil and gas operations. There was no set-aside designation for this procurement. The...
- The federal contract award with ID INE15PC00004 was issued by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), a civilian agency, to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) on September 24, 2015. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, is for an "Offshore Oil Burn Enhanced by Floating Immersed Objects" project with a ceiling value of $1,123,715.15. WPI, a private research university, will perform the work in Worcester, Massachusetts. The contract is a...
The Department of the Interior Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (DOI BSEE) awarded a $1.49 million firm fixed price definitive contract to The Regents of the University of California (UC Berkeley) to continue research on Phase 2 of the Fire Whirl Study. Under the contract, UC Berkeley will collaborate with subcontractor Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) to conduct laboratory and outdoor demonstration experiments investigating efficient remediation of oil spills using in-situ burning techniques enhanced by fire whirls. The studies aim to determine how and when fire whirls can be created and develop prototype apparatus to demonstrate the feasibility of controlling fire-whirl enhanced in-situ burning at larger scales. The research will assist in designing a reliable, controllable fire whirl in-situ burning system for oil spill cleanup. Performance will take place in Albany, California through January 2024.
Name | Description | Solicitation Number | FederalAgency | Type | PostedDate |
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FIRE WHIRL STUDY-PHASE 2 | 140E0120R0004 | Department of the Interior Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement | Award Notice 1/2 | 1/14/21, 3:16 PM | |
FIRE WHIRL STUDY-PHASE 2 | 140E0120R0004 | Department of the Interior Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement | Limited / Sole Source Justification 2/2 | 1/15/21, 1:10 PM |
ContractNumber | Description | Subcontractor | Prime Award | Dollars Obligated | Updated At |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
00010627S | Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station | Definitive Contract 140E0121C0004 | $604.1k | 1/30/23 |
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| P00003 | Exercise an Option | $627.8k | 1/5/23 | |
| P00002 | Other Administrative Action | $0 | 3/16/22 | |
| P00001 | Supplemental Agreement for work within scope | $0 | 11/18/21 | |
| Not listed | Not listed | $864.2k | 1/14/21 |