Transportation for Research and Monitoring Dive Cruises in San Diego County Coast

NOTICE TO OFFERORS: Instructions for submitting quotations under this request for quote must be followed. Failure to provide all information to aid in the evaluation may be considered non-responsive. Offers that are non-responsive may be excluded from further evaluation and rejected without further notification to the offeror.
1. Quotes shall be fully executed and returned on the Standard Form (SF) 18 and any acknowledgements of solicitation amendments on the SF 30.
2. Submit quotations to the office specified in this solicitation on or before the time specified in the solicitation. Email to raynier.camerino@noaa.gov.
3. The contractor shall provide the following information with their quote submission:
a) Point of contact name, telephone and E-mail address.
b) DUNS Number
4. Provide all evaluation criteria in accordance with 52.212-2 in this package.

NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) West coast Regional Office (WCR) is seeking to collaborate with an entity that will provide a vessel to support underwater abalone surveys and research conducted by SCUBA divers in the coastal waters of San Diego County. The vessel must be able to safely and efficiently provide transportation to San Diego County Dive Survey locations, accommodations for at least 14 SCUBA divers for ten, 1-day trips, and air and nitrox for filling SCUBA tanks. Dive boat personnel must be familiar with supporting both open circuit and closed circuit rebreather divers. NMFS shall conduct ten, 1-day trips to deploy, monitor and retrieve cages used for assessing disease exposure, to deploy and monitor abalone outplanting modules, and gather information on abalone abundance, distribution, and habitat suitability. All work will be conducted in sites within 3 nautical miles of the Pt Loma and La Jolla coasts in San Diego County.

See attached package for details.