B--NOTICE OF INTENT Analysis of Selenium

NOTICE OF INTENT - ANALYSIS OF SELENIUM The United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Joint Administrative Operations(JAO), intends to procure on an other than full and open competition basis justified IAW FAR 6.302-1 -- Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy Agency Requirements;
Action is to provide Technical Science¿Analytical Services in Support of the Analytical Control Facility (ACF)a U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (Service) field station, under the Division of Ecological Services. The primary goal of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), a Bureau of the Department of the Interior, is the conservation and sound management of fishery and wildlife resources for the benefit of present and future generations of Americans. Attainment of this goal requires continual collection, analysis and synthesis of new information on which wise and timely management decisions can be based. As a part of this decision-making process, the Service has the responsibility for determining the effects of oil, hazardous substances, and environmental contaminants on organisms and their habitats. A significant part of this responsibility requires the determination of trace amounts of inorganic compounds in soil, sediment, animal tissue, plant tissue, and water. Selenium Analysis is needed on multiple samples with different matrices including, feathers, carcass, avian egg, whole blood and eggshell. to perform the analyses, it must be done using limited amounts of the sample which are: unknown, limited amount of feathers, < 2.31 ~ 54.7 g carcass, < 5 ~ 10.4 g avian egg, < 0.1 ~ 0.5 ml whole blood and < 0.2 ~ 14.26 g eggshell.

The NAICS code for this procurement action is 541380, Testing Laboratories and Services

Any firms believing that they can provide this level of service with appropriate laboratories may submit a written response to be received by the Contract Specialist no later than 14 days after the date of publication of this notice. Responses are to be submitted to Lee Ann Riley by email to lee_riley@fws.gov