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The US Fish and Wildlife Service, intends to negotiate a sole source Firm-Fixed Price contract for the procurement of Snake River physa snail survey services in Bear Lake, ID. The vendor will be K+M Welding; in accordance with 41 U.S.C.

§3304(a)(1) as implemented by FAR 6.302-1 Only One Responsible Source.

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specialized, are only available from a single source without an unacceptable delay or duplication of cost and no other type of items will satisfy agency requirements. The Government intends to award the contract with an effective date of 01 October 2022 to K+M Welding, Unique

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00010 Diver Services for Snake River physa

NSN 7540-01-152-8067 OPTIONAL FORM 336 (4-86)

Sponsored by GSA

FAR (48 CFR) 53.110

A. Description

B. Justification

a. Circumstances

b. Other Capable Sources

c. Barriers to Competition

FWS Form 3-0034 (Rev. 12/2019) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

SOLE SOURCE JUSTIFICATION

JOINT ADMINISTRATIVE OPERATIONS

Acquisitions Operations

C. Recommendation and Certification by Program Office

Based on the above justification, I recommend this acquisition to be conducted using sole source acquisition procedures as specified in FAR Part 13. I hereby certify that this justification is accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Program / Project Officer

D. Contracting Officer Certification and Approval

Based on the above justification, I hereby certify that the circumstances of this contract action deem only one source reasonably available and approve the use of sole source acquisition procedures for this purchase.

Contracting Officer

E. Concurrence by Chief of Contracting Office (only required for awards exceeding $250K)

I hereby concur that the circumstances of this contract action deem only one source reasonably available.

Chief of Contracting Office

They have the required experience sampling for SRP and have been collecting samples for annual population monitoring with the Service and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) since initiation of annual monitoring in 2012. They have also collected samples for SRP range delineation efforts by the Service, BOR, and Idaho Power Company since 2002, and are the only diving company currently working with the species.

Other Capable Sources: There are two other diving companies that do work in the project area (both about 3 hours from Bear Lake), but neither company has experience sampling for Snake River physa; they are primarily underwater cleaning, welding, and/or salvage. One company, Cross Marine, has done work with local wildlife agencies in the area (primarily fish projects) and has experience diving with a suction dredge; however, they have not performed snail surveys or mollusk surveys involving suction dredging. Being 6 hours from Service personnel trained in the SRP collection protocol, it would be difficult to determine if their dredge system is appropriately set up to filter out and retain the appropriate size of substrate or make modifications.

Barriers: Although other dive companies within a similar distance to Bear Lake have small-scale underwater dredge capabilities, K+M Welding is the only company who has experience in SRP collection protocols. All surveys for the species since 2002 have been performed by them; as such, utilizing this vendor is important to collecting the best scientific data and maintaining scientific consistency. At this point, K+M welding has more experience in SRP collections and habitat identification than anyone currently working for the Service, BOR, or IPC, and it would be nearly impossible to train a vendor to the same level of knowledge and experience in only one week. It is advantageous to the government to utilize this unique vendor as it will allow for maximized sampling for the set amount of funding; time will not need to be spent training the vendor on sampling protocols or SRP habitat identification, nor in modifying equipment. The lake is large and has not been surveyed specifically for SRP; reducing training time and maximizing the amount of collections made will grant us a higher likelihood of finding the species if it is present.

Additionally, using the same vendor as in all other sampling efforts will allow for the direct comparison of data collected from this effort to existing SRP data (e.g., estimating a reasonable probability of detection, estimating any population densities). Changing vendors and equipment at this point could have greatly increase the number of confounding variable and make it difficult, if not impossible, to compare any data collected to that collected previously. Since the information that comes from this survey effort has the potential to greatly expand the known range of the species, will be informing the upcoming SSA, and could potentially lead to a change in ESA listing status, minimizing the impacts to the quality of the data collected is extremely important.

K+M Welding has unique and extensive experience collecting substrate samples using methods developed for this species, knowledge of the habitat parameters for the species, and equipment on hand that is set up to collect the specific substrate utilized by SRP. Using this vendor assures sound science and is advantageous to the government in effort, ESA benefits, and cost.