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 purpose of this project is to investigate oil coalescence behavior, plume dynamics, and oil particle interactions to understand mechanically dispersed oil droplet behavior and compare it to no intervention and subsea dispersant injection. Tees, a state government entity and member of the Texas A&M University System, has unique experience and capability in this area through research led by Dr. Scott Socolofsky. In addition to this contract, Tees holds a $900,000 multiple-award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center, allowing the agency to access Tees' multidisciplinary expertise for various engineering and scientific projects.
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