Coleman National Fish Hatchery Infrastructure Review and Alternative Analysis

This is a Sources Sought Notice for businesses capable of providing infrastructure review for the Coleman Fish Hatchery. The objective of this contract is to provide professional services for an in-depth review of Coleman National Fish Hatchery infrastructure and develop a detailed report with recommendations, analysis, and priorities for improving/modernizing the hatchery's systems and increasing the hatchery's aquaculture production potential, resiliency, and efficiency, considering a changing climate and alterations in watershed water management, and minimizing the impact on listed salmonid populations within the Battle Creek watershed in accordance with the attached draft performance work statement. This notice is being issued to help determine the availability of qualified businesses technically capable of meeting the Government requirement and to determine the method of acquisition.
This Sources Sought is issued solely for information and planning purposes and does not constitute a Request for Quote (RFQ). Respondents are solely responsible for all expenses associated with responding to the Sources Sought Notice. Information received from this Sources Sought Notice may be utilized in preparing potential solicitation documentation. It is the contractor's responsibility to identify proprietary information in response to this notice.
The purpose of this announcement is to gain knowledge of potentially qualified Native American Businesses that capable of fulfilling this requirement.
NAICS Code 541690 - Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services $19.0 million
Responses Due Date: July 17, 2023 @ 14:00 PM PD (Pacific Daylight Time)
Send Responses to: Mouang Phan, mphan@usbr.gov
Potential vendors shall provide the following information at a minimum in order to be considered a viable source:
1. Business Size & Classification(s)
2. Contact Information (Name, Phone, email & website (If Applicable))
3. Capabilities Statements
4. Appropriate document that demonstrates capabilities to provide the services needed.
* If any of the required information, items 1 to 4 are not submitted in its entirety by the response date, the vendor will be considered incapable of providing the required services and shall not be considered a viable source for market research purposes.
Notice Number 140R2023Q0100 has been assigned and should be referenced on all correspondence regarding this announcement.