Tender Details

Country: USA
Summary: Aerial Survey & Fish Forage Collection
UST Ref No: 121667683
Deadline: 01 Jul 2025
Financier: Self Financed
Purchaser Ownership: Government
Tender Value: Refer Document
Notice Type: Tender
Document Ref. No.: 140G0325Q0175
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This is a notice of intent to solicit from a single source for the USGS. The Alaska Science Center (ASC) has the need for forage fish data to continue long term monitoring time series in Prince William Sound, Alaska. The US Geological Survey (USGS) intends to negotiate a purchase order with Prince William Sound Science Center to forage fish data to continue long term monitoring time series in Prince William Sound, Alaska. Prince William Sound Science Center is the only known source that has the required specifications that meets the government's minimum needs.The USGS Alaska Science Center (ASC) Seabird and Forage Fish Program has been leading forage fish monitoring as part of the Gulf Watch Alaska (GWA) long-term monitoring program in Prince William Sound (PWS), Alaska since 2012. The goals of the GWA forage fish monitoring project are to provide information on the population trends of forage species in the region and to better understand how underlying predator-prey interactions influence recovering species and pelagic ecology within PWS and the GOA. Field work includes aerial-directed fish school sampling from a vessel, capture of forage fish to verify species/age class, and deploying multiple gear types (e.g., purse seine, beach seine, gill net, underwater video, dip net, line and hook) to collect forage fish samples for estimation of structure, size distribution, and energy density. Maintaining these datasets is important to resource managers as these data provide some of the only information about interannual changes in key prey species for marine predators such as commercial fish, marine birds, and whales in the northern GOA.The vendor will collect spawning capelin from Port Etches and Pacific sand lance from Middle Ground Shoal or Naked Island by deploying a variety of specialized fishing gear. Up to 200 samples of each species will be collected if possible and shipped frozen to the researchers at USGS Alaska Science Center who will then proc...
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Aerial Survey & Fish Forage Collection - USA Tender

The INTERIOR, DEPARTMENT OF THE | US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, a Government sector organization in USA, has announced a new tender for Aerial Survey & Fish Forage Collection. This tender is published on USARFP under UST Ref No: 121667683 and is categorized as a Tender. Interested and eligible suppliers are invited to participate by reviewing the tender documents and submitting their bids before the deadline on 2025-07-01.

The estimated tender value is Refer Document, and full details, including technical specifications and submission requirements, are provided in the official tender documents. Ensure all submissions meet the criteria outlined to be considered for evaluation.