B01_NOI_140M0121R0008_1.pdf

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NOTICE THAT WILL BE ISSUED. This procurement is being conducted in accordance with FAR Part 15 Contracting by Negotiation. The Department of the Interior (DOI), the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), on behalf of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), intends to competitively award a firm-fixed-price (FFP) type of contract as a result of this notice for a project titled “Bioenergetic Model for North Atlantic Right Whales.” There are no set aside restrictions. The BSEE Acquisition Operations Branch is the contracting office for this procurement and the resulting contract administration. All potential Offerors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database at www.sam.gov in order to receive Federal Government awards. The applicable NAICS Code is 541620, Environmental Consulting Services. The period of performance of the resultant contract is expected to be 24 months from the date of award.

BOEM integrates information into assessments for activities it authorizes with cumulative effects on threatened and endangered species. Many of these assessments consider the effects of disturbance on North Atlantic right whales but have largely been limited to qualitative analyses. This study will allow BOEM to conduct a more robust quantitative assessment of disturbance from renewable energy activities. BOEM has an obligation to understand how activities that it authorizes may impact threatened and endangered species. BOEM’s regulations under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act as amended by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the information from this study will help in BOEM’s environmental assessments under the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act.

This study will assess the bioenergetic requirements of different right whale life stages and develop a bioenergetic model to assess the possible consequences of disturbance from anthropogenic activities. The model should be developed through the best available information from peer reviewed literature, gray literature, and expert elicitation. This model must be peer-reviewed and developed collaboratively with partners such as BOEM, marine mammal physiologists, and population modelers.

HOW TO COMPETE FOR THIS REQUIREMENT: If you are interested in participating in this competition, please send your organization’s name, business size status, point of contact, address, telephone number, email address and DUNS Number via email to the Contracting Officer, Lisa A. Algarin at lisa.algarin@bsee.gov at the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) June 11, 2021. Reference Solicitation No. 140M0121R0008 on all correspondence. Inquiries must be submitted in writing to the email address referenced above. Telephone inquiries are strongly discouraged. Those organizations expressing an interest in this opportunity will receive a copy of the complete solicitation upon issuance.

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