Macroinvertebrate Sample Contract Analysis
Closed Pre-Solicitation Posted
- Solicitation number
- 140G0125Q0027
- Agency
- Office of Acquisitions and Grants US Geological Survey, Department of the Interior
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 541380 Testing Laboratories and Services
- Points of contact
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- Roberto Sepulveda rsepulveda@usgs.gov
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) intends to award a non-competitive purchase order to Watershed Assessment Associates for Macroinvertebrate Sample Contract Analysis. The contract involves taxonomic identification of small invertebrates as part of ongoing research projects in Great Lakes' Areas of Concern, conducted in partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. The critical objective is to maintain continuity in benthic macroinvertebrate community assessment before and after sediment remediation, ensuring data comparability. The agency emphasizes that switching taxonomic labs could potentially compromise the accuracy of conclusions about multimillion-dollar restoration projects. Responses must be emailed to Roberto Sepulveda by January 23, 2025, with the anticipated contract award date of January 29, 2025.
The procurement is not set aside for any specific business category and will be awarded under NAICS code 541380 for Testing Laboratories and Services, with a size standard of $19 million. The contract will be a firm fixed-price purchase order with a one-year base period and two potential one-year option periods. Watershed Assessment Associates, located in Schenectady, New York, is considered the only reasonably available source for this requirement due to their established expertise and continuity in the research. The data will be delivered to the USGS New York Water Science Center in Troy, New York. Vendors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) to be eligible for the purchase order, and the solicitation is being issued for informational purposes only, with no competitive quotations being requested.
Notice text
The U.S. Geological Survey intends to award a non-competitive purchase order to Watershed Assessment Associates, located in Schenectady, New York, for Macroinvertebrate Sample Contract Analysis. The data is to be delivered to the USGS New York Water Science Center located in Troy, New York. The period of performance will be one year from the date the contractor receives the purchase order.
There are two one-year option periods.
Pursuant to FAR 13.106-1(b)(1) Watershed Assessment Associates is the only source reasonable available for this requirement. The NYWSC has long standing research projects in Great Lakes' Areas of Concern (AOCs) in partnership with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. A key component of this work is benthic macroinvertebrate community assessment before and after remediation of contaminated sediments. Because taxonomic identification of small invertebrates is nuanced and comes with an expected error rate, maintaining continuity with the same taxonomic lab is critical to ensure data comparability between past and future data. Switching to a new taxonomic lab in the middle of this ongoing effort would increase the potential for human-driven differences in datasets and could lead to incorrect conclusions about the effectiveness, or lack thereof, of multimillion dollar remediation/restoration projects.
In accordance with FAR 5.207, all responsible sources may submit a quotation which shall be considered by the agency, however, THIS NOTICE IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE QUOTATIONS. The Government intends to award this requirement noncompetitively in accordance with FAR 13.106-1(b)(1).
Responses must be emailed to Roberto (Rob) Sepulveda at rsepulveda@usgs.gov.
The NAICS code is 541380 Testing Laboratories and Services. The size standard is $19 million.
The anticipated award date of the contract is 01/29/2025. The anticipated contract will be firm fixed-price. A vendor must be registered at https://sam.gov/content/home to be awarded the purchase order.
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