Assessing Agricultural Consumptive Use in the UCRB - Task 1a

Assessing Agricultural Consumptive Use in the Upper Colorado River Basin - Task 1a - Actual Evapotranspiration Estimation Using the METRIC (Mapping Evapotranspiration at High Resolution with Internal Calibration) Model

PRESOLICITATION SYNOPSIS NOTICE:

The Bureau of Reclamation anticipates issuing Request for Quote (RFQ) 140R4020Q0011 to acquire contractor services to evaluate the effectiveness of selected remote sensing and crop coefficient models for estimating both potential and actual evapotranspiration (ET) from irrigated lands across the Upper Colorado River Basin (Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming) to determine the best long-term approach for collecting agricultural consumptive use data. This effort is seeking a Contractor for a full-scale remote sensing pilot project to be conducted to estimate monthly and seasonal actual ETa for all potentially irrigated agricultural lands in the Upper Colorado River Basin for the 2019 growing season and potentially subsequent years. The Contractor will apply the METRIC remote sensing-based evapotranspiration model developed by Dr. Richard Allen and others at the University of Idaho to Landsat 7 and 8 ETM+, OLI, and TIRS imagery to produce high-resolution (30-meter pixel spacing) maps of ETa. The Contractor will provide a digital geographic database which identifies ETa at the field scale; maps will be in an Albers Conic Equal Area projection. The contractor will draft a report including detailed cost and resource estimates for the annual operation of the METRIC model, summary evaluation of the performance benefits and disadvantages of the METRIC method, and a detailed set of processing protocols for the METRIC method. The Contractor shall also provide technical support regarding the operation of the various ET modeling methods, as well as assisting in evaluating why METRIC results differ from eddy covariance tower data or other remote sensing algorithms (e.g. SSEBop) at the tower sites and across basin-wide irrigated acreages.

Solicitation 140R4020Q0011 will be competed as a full and open competition. The Government reserves the right to award with or without discussions. The Government intends to award this requirement as a Firm Fixed Price contract with a Base Year plus four (4) Option Years.

This PRE-SOLICITATION SYNOPSIS NOTICE is for information and planning purposes only and does not constitute a formal Request for Quote (RFQ). This PRE-SOLICIATION SYNOPSIS NOTICE is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government. This is not a solicitation and does not obligate the Government to issue a solicitation, nor will the Government be liable for any costs involved in submission of information in response to this notice. Release of an official solicitation is anticipated to occur in December 2019. Interested parties are encouraged to monitor www.beta.SAM.gov for the release of the solicitation. All responsible sources may submit a quote which shall be considered by the agency.

NO TELEPHONE INQUIRIES WILL BE ACCEPTED

For further assistance, please contact:

Brandi Clark, Contract Specialist

United States Department of the Interior

Bureau of Reclamation

125 South State Street, Room 8100

Salt Lake City, Utah 84138-1102

brandiclark@usbr.gov