Contract C6BB45

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection awarded contract C6BB45 on January 27, 2026, for approximately $50,000 with a completion date of June 30, 2026. This fixed-cost agreement requires the contractor to conduct a comprehensive evaluation and documentation of the Florida Coral Reef Resilience Program as a polycentric governance system. The primary deliverables include a draft literature review, semi-structured interview guides, an Institutional Review Board-approved protocol, collected policy documents, and a final 508-compliant report. The contract is structured across six tasks, with substantial work allocated to literature review ($25,000) and data collection instruments ($7,500), complemented by reporting, ethics approval, and community engagement activities.

The contractor must submit quarterly deliverables, with an initial progress report and social media content due March 16, 2026, and comprehensive final deliverables due June 15, 2026. Final project outputs include a manager-level summary, final presentation, curated photographs, and an Excel spreadsheet of collected policy documents. Payment is contingent upon completion of services, Department of Environmental Protection acceptance, and submission of itemized invoices detailing deliverables by task. Partial payments are permitted upon approval of individual deliverables. The contract manager for this agreement is Kathleen Czaia of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.