Request for Information: NOAA Fisheries AFSC Marine Mammal Tender

• Country: USA
• Summary: Request for Information: NOAA Fisheries AFSC Marine Mammal Observer Program
• UST Ref No: 112249655
• Deadline: 25 Jan 2025
• Financier: Self Financed
• Purchaser Ownership: Government
• Tender Value: Refer Document
• Notice Type: Tender
• Document Ref. No.: NOAA-AG0-WAD-SRW-25-10
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• Description:
• Description
  AFSC seeks industry input into the draft performance work statement (PWS), attached. AFSC welcomes any comments, concerns, or suggestions to clarify or improve the PWS, especially from vendors interested in participating in any future contract.
  This is a Request for Information (RFI), for market research purposes, in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) Part 10 Procedures. This is not a solicitation, nor does it guarantee a solicitation will be issued. Requests for a solicitation will not receive a response. This is not a request for proposals and it does not obligate the government in any manner.
  
  Background
  The FMA Division desires to obtain sampling services and electronic monitoring technology
  support for the collection of fisheries data including fishing effort, gear characteristics and
  marine mammal and seabird interactions during the commercial salmon drift gillnet fisheries
  operating in inland waters of Southeast Alaska in 2025 and 2026.
  
  The FMA Division plans to shift monitoring methods from a traditionally observer centric
  program to one that employs electronic monitoring (EM) methods. Direct observation of the
  fishery has historically been obtained from separate platforms requiring the program to procure
  vessels and boat operators in addition to fishery observers which is extremely costly. EM has
  been shown to be minimally intrusive to fishing operations and has the potential to document
  fishing effort and marine mammal interaction at a fraction of the cost of fishery observers,
  allowing the program to obtain higher coverage levels and more precise bycatch estimates.
  
  While EM has been an effective method for monitoring marine mammal interaction in other
  gillnet fisheries, the application of EM for the AMMOP has not yet been attempted. In 2023 and
  2024, FMA partnered with Archipelago Marine Resources to conduct field trials deploying several
  t...
• Documents:

 Tender Notice