Notice of Intent to Sole Source Services for Environmental Modeling, Analysis, and Planning Tools
Closed Special Notice Posted
- Solicitation number
- W912HZ25N7135
- Agency
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Engineer Research and Development Center
US Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Defense
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- Total Small Business
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 541715 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- Place of performance
- Michigan 48108, United States
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The US Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) has issued a Special Notice announcing its intent to award a sole source contract to Limno-Tech, Inc. of Ann Arbor, Michigan for environmental modeling, analysis, and planning tools services. This procurement falls under the Total Small Business set-aside category and is classified under NAICS code 541715 for Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences. The contract involves designing a workshop to evaluate innovative floodplain management strategies for operational water control, with a focus on identifying and assessing new approaches to floodplain management. The notice was posted on September 12, 2025, and establishes the government's intention to proceed with this sole source award under Federal Acquisition Regulation provisions.
The primary objective of this procurement is to conduct a comprehensive workshop that draws lessons learned from the Upper Mississippi River Basin (UMRB) to develop innovative floodplain management strategies. The contractor must demonstrate extensive experience in research, development, and special studies related to environmental quality prediction for civil works and government agencies. Key workshop components include optimizing levee district performance through agricultural levee district assessments, enhancing ecosystem services via managed floodplain restoration projects, implementing risk-based flood management using modern hydrologic modeling, and presenting relevant modeling approaches such as NSM, SWAT+, and CASM. The notice indicates a tight timeline with responses due by September 16, 2025, just four days after posting. Contractors interested in this opportunity must possess specialized capabilities in environmental modeling and analysis, with particular expertise in watershed management and floodplain restoration applicable beyond the UMRB system.
Notice text
The US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), intends to issue an award on a sole source basis (IAW FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)) to Limno-Tech, Inc. 501 Avis Drive, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108-9799. The effort is to design a workshop to evaluate innovative floodplain management strategies for operational water control by identifying and evaluating innovative approaches to floodplain management.
The contractor must have experience with research, development, and special studies to predict environmental quality for civil works and government agencies. The contractor must have capabilities to furnish all labor for tasks to conduct a workshop drawing lessons learned from the Upper Mississippi River Basin (UMRB) including: (1) Optimize levee district performance; Assess the potential for agricultural levee districts to contribute to watershed and mainstem river management, including utilizing detention basin functionality during non-crop seasons and distributing nutrient-laden sediments onto cultivated fields. The workshop shall address the relevance to systems beyond the UMRB. (2) Enhance ecosystem services; Evaluate how managed floodplain restoration projects can be adapted to optimize water management for habitat enhancement (winter/summer flow adjustments) and nutrient reduction, potentially generating revenue streams through hunting rights or nutrient credit trading. (3) Risk-based flood management; Utilize modern hydrologic modeling and spatial analysis to classify levee district flood risk (low, medium, high, very high) and explore voluntary flooding programs in lower-risk districts as a means of sediment/nutrient reduction and flood risk redistribution. (4) Modeling and analytical tools; Present and apply relevant modeling approaches (NSM, SWAT+, CASM) to assess the effectiveness of project alternatives and inform decision-making, with consideration for applicability across diverse river systems.
The intended procurement will be classified under North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 541715 – Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (Except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology with 1000 employees). This notice of intent to sole source to the Limno-Tech, Inc. is not a request for competitive quotes or proposals and no solicitation document exists for this requirement. Technical data sufficient to determine capability in providing the same or similar service shall be considered. All capability statements received by the closing date of this publication of this synopsis will be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete based on this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.
Capability statements shall include the notice number in the subject line and be submitted only by-email as a Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel, or Adobe PDF attachment to Shinita.M.Jordan@usace.army.mil and Sonia.J.Boyd@usace.army.mil Statements are due by 1:00 Central Time, Tuesday September 16, 2025. No phone calls will be accepted.
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