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Opportunity: Lake Trout Gillnetting on Yellowstone Lake

Description

Yellowstone National Park, Lake Trout Gillnetting on Yellowstone Lake

This Sources Sought notice is a request for information to be used for preliminary market research and planning purposes only. The Government is seeking responses from contractors interested in and capable of providing the required services. No proposals are being requested or accepted at this time.

This is NOT a solicitation and no contract will be awarded from this notice. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this notice. The purpose of this notice is to gain knowledge of interest, capabilities, and qualifications of interested parties including Small Business (SB); 8A; Historically Underutilized Business (HUBZone); Service-Disable Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOB); and Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB).

The U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service (NPS), Yellowstone National Park expects to solicit for 'Lake Trout Gillnetting on Yellowstone Lake' (Base & Four Option Years), located inside Yellowstone National Park, Lake District, in Park & Teton Counties, WY (accessible by two-lane highway May-October):

¿ 54 miles south of Gardiner, MT via Grand Loop Road, Norris Canyon Road ¿ 55 miles east of West Yellowstone, MT via West Entrance Road, Grand Loop Road ¿ 99 miles north of Jackson, WY via US-89, John D Rockefeller Jr. Parkway ¿ 77 miles west of Cody, WY via US-16, East Entrance Road ¿ 66 miles southwest of Cooke City, MT via Northeast Entrance Road, Grand Loop Road

Yellowstone Lake has a surface area of 136 square miles, a shoreline length of 148 miles, and an average depth of 140 feet. At an elevation of 7,800 feet, Yellowstone Lake is the largest high-elevation lake in North America. Unique and sensitive geothermal features are found on the bottom of the lake. Damage to these resources by gillnetting, trapnetting, or other netting strategy operations must be avoided.

The National Park Service (NPS), Yellowstone National Park contemplates awarding a Firm-fixed price type contract. The period of performance is anticipated to be for approximately five years, including a Base Year and Four Option Years.

Lake Trout Gillnetting on Yellowstone Lake: Work encompasses mobilization and on-going assistance from a professional gill net fishing operation, including all necessary personnel and gear such as boats, lines, weights, and buoys, to significantly reduce the non-native lake trout population and restore native cutthroat trout during the fishing season (ice-free) in Yellowstone Lake, Yellowstone National Park, WY. The Contractor will be expected to experiment with other fishing methods (potentially to include trawling, live entrapment netting, and experimental gillnetting). Netting operations will be from 5/19/2019 through 10/25/2019 (Base Year), and may continue for an additional four years.

The Contractor will be expected to provide captains and crews of size and working days/hours sufficient to meet gill net effort targets, and to provide sufficient housing for personnel at the remote Yellowstone Lake work location. Additionally, the Contractor will be expected to use at least three contractor-owned boats, along with one NPS-owned boat, compliant with Coast Guard approved safety equipment.

Expertise Required: This work requires expertise in methods of netting lake trout to avoid mortality of a co-existing, sensitive, native trout species. The Contractor should demonstrate expertise in commercial-scale gillnetting for lake trout on large lakes; operation and maintenance of large boats; and the precise placement and efficient processing of large amounts gill nets. The Contractor will be expected to demonstrate a track record of high quality data collection, and support of fisheries research.

NAICS: 114111 ¿ Finfish Fishing (Trout Fishing); Size Standard, $20.5 million PSC: F020 ¿ Fisheries Resource Management Services

In order to determine the extent of industry interest and capability, interested parties must submit a written response to: Alane Fitzpatrick, Contract Specialist; NPS, IMR - Northern Rockies MABO, PO Box 170, Moose, WY 83012 ¿ or email alane_fitzpatrick@nps.gov. Responses are due by January 19, 2017 at 1:00 p.m. MST.

Responses to this notice should include:

1. Name of Firm, Point of Contact, Mailing Address, Telephone Number, and DUNS number;

2. Identification of any applicable small business eligibility as determined by the NAICS size standards, the Small Business Administration, and registration in the System for Award Management (SAM), including SB, HUBZone, 8A, SDVOB, and WOSB; and,

3. A brief listing of relevant experience and expertise, including dollar value of previous work performed, within the past three years.

Overview

Reference number:

140P1418R0010

Issue date:

01/12/2018

Response due:

01/19/2018 05:00 PM US/Eastern

Set Aside:

N/A

NAICS:

114111-Finfish Fishing

PSC / FSC:

F020-NATURAL RESOURCES/CONSERVATION- FISHERIES RESOURCE

Agency:

DOI

Contracting office:

NPS, IMR - Northern Rockies MABO

PO Box 170

103 Headquarters Loop Road

Moose, WY 83012

Place of Performance:

Yellowstone National Park

PO Box 168

Mammoth Supply Center, 22 Stable St

Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190

Contact:

Alane Fitzpatrick

Phone:

307-739-3669

Fax:

307-739-3670

Email:

Alane_Fitzpatrick@nps.gov

Vendors conference:

Location:

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Documentation

140P1418R0010

Sources Sought

Overview

140P1418R0010 Sources Sought Notice

Modification 1

Overview

140P1418R0010_Presolicitation-Notice

Pre-solicitation Notice

Overview

140P1418R0010_Presolicitation-Notice

Solicitation

Overview

140P1418R0010

140P1418R0010_Attchmt-D.1_YNP_Vicinity-Map

140P1418R0010_Attchmt-D.2_WD-WY

140P1418R0010_Attchmt-D.3_ANS-Insp-Form

140P1418R0010_Attchmt-D.4_Ctr-Past-Perform-Form

140P1418R0010_Attchmt-D.5_Seed-Task-Order

140P1418R0010_Attchmt-D.6_Statement-of-Work

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