Revised_SOW_-_Macroinvert_Sampling_0001.pdf

Great Lakes Inventory & Monitoring Network Ashland, WI

STATEMENT OF WORK:

Macroinvertebrate Sampling

(5-year BPA - FY23/FY24/FY25/FY26/FY27)

DATED:

28 February 2023

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

INTERIOR REGIONS 3/4/5

OHIO MAJOR ACQUISITION BUYING OFFICE

1. PURPOSE

Identify and index aquatic macroinvertebrate samples in order to compile baseline site inventories. In addition, continue building/develop a monitoring protocol using regional tolerance values, to assess habitat integrity within and across sites, parks and region.

2. SCOPE/TASKS/DESCRIPTION OF AGREEMENT

This is a pre-priced Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) for the purchase of services for a contractor to provide all necessary personnel/supervision, supplies/materials, transportation, equipment, and facilities necessary to identify and analyze samples of aquatic macroinvertebrates. This will include sample pick/sorting, mounting specimens, identification, and enumeration of all specimens to within the lowest practicable taxonomic unit, and calculating the non-wadeable m-IBI index for each sample collected.

No services shall be furnished without prior approval of the Contracting Officer or authorized callers, meaning those authorized to issue a call or place an order under the BPA. The names and contact information for all authorized callers are listed below in item 5 - Individuals Authorized to Issue Calls/Purchase Under the BPA.

Collections shall occur in future dates to be identified by the biologists identified below.

Sampling procedure shall be in accordance with Wisconsin DNR standards, and “A Per-Sample Quote for Laboratory Processing of Artificial Substrate Multi-plate Sampler Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Samples from the National Park Service”—available to the Contractor upon award of agreement.

The Contractor shall be asked to identify samples from the St Croix National Scenic Riverway, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore and other Great Lakes Network Parks

Detailed Description of Field and Lab Work National Park Service (NPS) staff will collect up to 22 macroinvertebrate samples annually in accordance with Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) protocols. Sample contents (a clean sample, with most foreign matter removed) will be placed into labeled jars by NPS. NPS will be responsible for sample delivery/shipping to the Contractor. All samples will be sent in by individual parks within a 60-day window, typically in October and November, in the same federal fiscal year.

SOW – GLKN – Macroinvertebrate Sampling

The Contractor will process National Park Service macroinvertebrate samples and analyze as described below:

Processing of a macroinvertebrate sample includes:

• Sample tracking in-lab

• Gridded subsampling per WDNR protocols to a minimum target 500 specimens, sample allowing

• Large/rare specimen examination applied to any unsorted remnant of the original sample debris

• Mounting select specimens to microscope slides

• Identification of all specimens to Genus, and species if possible

• Enumeration of all specimens within a taxonomic unit

• Retention of all subsampled specimens and non-processed sample debris

• Sample processing efforts are written to project-specific sample log sheet

• Taxonomies, respective enumerations and respective taxonomic references are written to a standard laboratory bench sheet

Non-wadeable m-IBI calculation The non-wadeable m-IBI (Weigel & Dimick 2011; Blocksom and Johnson 2009) will be calculated for each sample.

Data reporting Taxonomies, respective enumerations, and respective taxonomic reference citations will be listed to Excel®worksheets. m-IBI values will be reported to Excel® worksheet and sent by the Contractor to NPS as an electronic data deliverable within 10 months upon receipt of samples by the laboratory.

Taxonomic justification Taxonomic certification through the Society for Freshwater Science taxonomic certification program or equivalent experience by the Contractor is required. Reported taxonomies will be consistent with taxonomies presented by the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS, available from http://www.itis.gov/) when possible. Taxonomies not supported by the ITIS platform will be applied as necessary to illustrate unique taxon concepts. Contractor will provide justifications to National Park Service when reported taxonomies do not match ITIS platform listings and will indicate the lowest respective taxonomy displayed in ITIS.

Data retention in cases of dispute All National Park Service sample components sans contractor-retained specimens will be retained within the Contractor’s archives for a time span of at least three years post-billing date.

Physical components from these samples will be discarded no sooner three years post-billing date unless retrieved by National Park Service prior to same date.

3. PLACE OF PERFORMANCE

The work required for this agreement will be at the Contractor’s laboratory.

4. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE (POP)

This is a multi-year (5-year) Blanket Purchase Agreement.

Period of performance will be as follows:

The contractor will furnish services called for by this agreement if and when requested by the Contracting Officer or authorized callers during a five (5) year period of performance from 1 May 2023 – 30 April 2028.

Year #1 - FY23 – 1 May 2023 through 30 April 2024

Year #2 - FY24 – 1 May 2024 through 30 April 2025

Year #3 - FY25 – 1 May 2025 through 30 April 2026

Year #4 - FY26 – 1 May 2026 through 30 April 2027

Year #5 - FY27 – 1 May 2027 through 30 April 2028

5. INDIVIDUALS AUTHORIZED TO ISSUE CALLS/PURCHASE UNDER THE BPA

Sampling requests may be ordered only by the following authorized employees:

Caitlin Nagorka – 715-501-0011 Laura Waller – 906-202-0100 Chris Otto – 231-326-4753 David VanderMeulen – 715-209-8633 Richard Damstra – 715-209-8633

If an order/call is made by an individual not included on the authorized list, the call will be at the sole responsibility of the contractor.

Those individuals authorized to place orders/calls under this agreement shall do so by telephone or email.

6. FREQUENCY OF ORDERING / RECORD OF SERVICE CALL/TICKETS /

INVOICES

Calls/orders shall be placed as needs arise or on an on-call basis.

All services/calls under this agreement shall be accompanied by a service ticket or sales slip that shall contain the following minimum information:

a) Name of supplier / contractor

b) BPA number

c) Date of purchase / call

d) Itemized list of locations serviced

e) Quantity, unit price, and extension of each item (less applicable discounts)

f) Date of service

When billing procedures provide for an individual invoice for each delivery, these invoices shall be accumulated, provided that-

• A consolidated payment will be made for each specified period; and

• The period of any discounts will commence on the final date of the billing period or on the date of receipt of invoices for all deliveries accepted during the billing period, whichever is later.

One consolidated invoice with service ticket numbers referenced shall be submitted on the last day of each month for which there was service by the Contractor, the Contractor shall send the contracting officer representative (COR) on the agreement an invoice of all services provided.

The purpose is to double-check services rendered against the service tickets/sales slips with the lead research on staff at SACN, PIRO, SLBE, and/or GLKN and to prepare supporting materials for the BPA call. Once review is complete, the contract specialist will load funding on to a BPA call which the contractor will invoice against via IPP.

Contracting Officer Representative (COR) David VanderMeulen Aquatic Ecologist/Program Lead Great Lakes Inventory and Monitoring Network Phone: 715-209-8633 Email: David_vandermeulen@nps.gov

The Contractor must use the IPP website to register access and use IPP for submitting invoices and receiving payment.

The website is: https://www.ipp.gov mailto:David_vandermeulen@nps.gov

7. PURCHASE LIMITATION

The total dollar/purchase limitation for this BPA is $100,000.00.

8. COMPLETION OF BPA

This BPA is considered complete when the purchases under it equal its total dollar/purchase limitation or when its stated time period expires.

9. EXTENT OF OBLIGATION

The Government is obligated only to the extent of authorized purchases made under the

BPA.

This BPA can be discontinued upon thirty (30) days written notice by either party. The Contractor is required to immediately notify the Contracting Officer (CO), in writing, if at any time the Contractor/Business is no longer professionally viable to honor the terms of the BPA.

10. PRICE SCHEDULE

Utilizing the attached schedule, provide costs for each of the line items for the various FY as outlined in the spreadsheet. The line is priced as a per test each (EA) basis. The prices contained in this document for each FY will be the per test cost for the tests initiated in that specific period of time (see below breakout):

Year #1 - FY23 – 1 May 2023 through 30 April 2024

Year #2 - FY24 – 1 May 2024 through 30 April 2025

Year #3 - FY25 – 1 May 2025 through 30 April 2026

Year #4 - FY26 – 1 May 2026 through 30 April 2027

Year #5 - FY27 – 1 May 2027 through 30 April 2028

These FY dates are per the item 4 – Period of Performance section dates spanning from 1 May 2023 through 30 April 2028 – in which the yearly anniversary date of the BPA will start on 1 May of the applicable FY.

11. REVIEW PROCEDURES

The CO and/or authorized callers shall review this BPA at least annually. Within thirty (30) days of the anniversary date of this BPA, the parties shall review it to determine whether changing market conditions, availability/quality of services and other pertinent circumstances require modifications or termination of the BPA.

12. QUALITY ASSURANCE REQUIREMENT

The Contractor must provide a quality assurance report with each set of results. The quality assurance report must document the data results, methods used to quantify each parameter, the results of quality control measures, and the level of precision that was obtained. The report must also contain a description of 1) any laboratory coding or flags for individual results, analytical problems and their resolution, 2) qualifications on use of the data, and/or 3) other interpretations that would be useful to GLKN when using the data in reports or publications. GLKN will periodically evaluate the Contractor’s performance in accordance with the statement of work.