WHOI_-_Sole_Source_2.pdf

This document provides a notice of intent to solicit a sole source contract. The U.S. Geological Survey intends to negotiate a purchase order with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute for the leasing of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle to collect geophysical and geochemical data in the Escanaba Trough offshore northern California from May 25 to June 12, 2022. The vehicle must be able to operate at depths of at least 3500 meters, deploy from the research vessel Thompson, accommodate payloads for bathymetric, sidescan, subbottom, magnetic, chemical and temperature mapping as well as photography, and support 24-hour scientific operations through May 2022 in Newport, Oregon. Responses to the notice were due by February 22, 2022 to the email address provided.