Southern Illinois University (SIU) Species Identification

The U.S. Geological Survey intends to award a non-competitive purchase order to Southern Illinois University for services to genetically identify Scaphirhynchus sturgeon embryos, free embryos, larvae, and young-of-year collected from the Yellowstone River within the Great Plains Management Unit, as identified by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Pallid Sturgeon Recovery Program. The period of performance is one base year and two option years.

SIU possesses the only available standardized baseline data set necessary to perform these analyses with the certainty required by the current recovery program protocols.

In accordance with FAR 5.207, all responsible sources may submit a bid, proposal or quotation which shall be considered by the agency, however, THIS NOTICE IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS. The Government intends to award this requirement noncompetitively in accordance with FAR 13.106-1(b)(1).

Email responses to krschneider@usgs.gov. Emailed responses are preferred.

The NAICS code is 541714. The size standard is 1,000.

The anticipated award date of the contract is 03/01/2021. The anticipated contract will be firm fixed-price. A vendor must be registered at https://sam.gov/SAM/ to be awarded the contract.