This is a $15,800.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Central Midwest Water Science Center, to Rapid Creek Research Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business. The contract is for the lease of two Cypress Heat Pulse Horizontal Groundwater Flowmeter Systems, including installation, support, and monitoring for 12 months at a USGS research site in southern Illinois.
The original procurement was a sole-source special notice, as the USGS determined that Rapid Creek Research's heat-pulse flowmeter technology was the only one capable of meeting the agency's requirements for high-frequency measurement of groundwater flow rate and direction using solar-only power, logging data to Campbell data loggers, and transmitting real-time data through telemetry. The contract does not have a set-aside designation.