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Incorporated by Reference: Rule 60A-1.045, F.A.C.

DESCRIPTION OF INTENDED

SINGLE SOURCE PURCHASE

(PUR 7776)

AGENCY: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC)

TITLE: Advanced Telemetry Systems Incorporated (ATS)

Short description of the commodity or service desired: Purchase of Global Positioning System

(GPS) adult and fawn collars, Vaginal Implant Transmitters (VITs) and airtime service for the collars.

CONTACT

Name: John Nordmeyer

Address: 1875 Orange Ave E, Tallhassee, FL 32311

Telephone: 850-410-0471

Email: john.nordmeyer@myfwc.com

Internal tracking number, if any: FWC SS 24.25-05

Date posted: 10/03/2024 Last day for receipt of information: 10/25/2024

This description of commodities or contractual services intended for purchase from a single source is posted in accordance with Sections 120.57(3) and 287.057(3), Florida Statutes (F.S.), and will remain posted for a period of at least 15 business days.

Commodity or Contractual Service Required (commodity or United National Standard Products and Services Code (UNSPSC), manufacturer, model, and description, as appropriate):

ATS G5M-2D Wildlink Iridium GPS collars, ATS M3930U Neolink-ITX Vaginal Implant

Transmitters, ATS M4230BU Neolink-ITX fawn collars, Iridium Monthly Service Fees. Note, model numbers may change as upgrades for improvements are developed. Commodity Code(s):

43221706; 43221721; 43221722; and 83121702.

Quantity or Term (as appropriate):

3 years from the date first purchase order is issued

Requestor (division, bureau, office, individual, as appropriate):

Elina Garrison, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, Terrestrial Mammal Research

Performance and/or Design Requirements (e.g. intended use, function or application, compatibility, requirements; reference to policy, rule, statute or other act of the Legislature, etc., as appropriate):

To examine white-tailed deer fawn survival and cause-specific mortality of fawns, we must first capture and collar adult females with unique collars that contain a microprocessor and functionality of a NEOLINK technology (G5M-2D Wildlink-ITX Iridium GPS collars). At the time of capture, the females are also implanted with VITs that are radio-linked with the adult collar. This allows us to quickly respond when a fawn is born (as the VIT expels, VITs radio link

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sends the information to the mother’s iridium collar and we receive an email alert within 20-30 min after birth). Fawns are then fitted with the expandable Neolink-ITX collars that are similarly linked with the mother’s collar. This technology allows for alerts if the fawn strays out of radio range of its mother or if a mortality occurs.

Intended Single Source:

Advanced Telemetry Services (ATS)

Estimated Dollar Amount:

$90,000.00

Justification for single source acquisition (what is necessary and unique about the product, service or source; steps taken to confirm unavailability of competition, as appropriate):

ATS collars will be deployed as part of the North Florida Deer Study at Ordway-Swisher

Biological Station, which began in 2020. During the project we have deployed 66 ATS collars and currently have 8 deer collared in the study area with collars originally purchased for the

South Florida Deer Study and refurbished for use in the North Florida Deer Study when that study ended. In order to not jeopardize the integrity of the data, and for efficient and consistent

GPS data management (including location data, mortality notifications and all user commands), it is critical that all animals within the study area are collared using the same equipment, available only from ATS. All the GPS data (existing and new collars) are uploaded to ATS’s proprietary managed Iridium website and all the data and control over the collars is securely managed by the user. This allows the user (FWC employees included in the project) to send commands such as remote drop-off, change in GPS fix schedule, change in iridium transmission schedule, etc. In addition, user is directly able to change several settings with the fawn-doe collar communication. Furthermore, continuing to use ATS collars with the linked communication between doe collar-VIT and doe collar-fawn collar, allows us to follow individual adult female’s reproductive success through multiple years, without having to replace the collar on the adult. In other words, we can connect the existing adult female collar to a new

VIT and fawn collar(s).

Approved By (names & titles, as appropriate, e.g., requestor, requestor management, information systems, budget, purchasing):

Elina Garrison, White-tailed Deer Research Coordinator

Elizabeth Braun de Torrez, Terrestrial Mammal Research Lead

Robin Boughton, Section Leader

Renee Gregory, Purchasing Specialist Supervisor

Rachel Korade, Purchasing Director

Prospective vendors are requested to provide information regarding their ability to supply the commodities or contractual services described. If it is determined in writing by the agency, after reviewing any information received from prospective vendors, that the commodities or contractual services are available only from a single source, the agency shall provide notice of its intended decision to enter a single-source purchase contract in the manner specified in Rule 60A-

1.045, Florida Administrative Code, and section 120.57(3), F.S.