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Notice; issuance of permits and
permit amendments.
ACTION:
Notice is hereby given that
permits and permit amendments have
been issued to the following entities
under the Marine Mammal Protection
Act (MMPA) and the Endangered
Species Act (ESA), as applicable.
SUMMARY:
The permits and related
documents are available for review
upon written request via email to
NMFS.Pr1Comments@noaa.gov.
ADDRESSES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Shasta McClenahan, Ph.D. (Permit No.
20430–01 and 25943), Amy Hapeman
(Permit No. 25563), and Sara Young
(Permit No. 25770); at (301) 427–8401.
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on the dates listed below that requests
for a permit had been submitted by the
below-named applicants. To locate the
Federal Register notice that announced
our receipt of the application and a
complete description of the activities, go
to www.federalregister.gov and search
on the permit number provided in Table
1 below.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
[RTID 0648–XB639]
Marine Mammals and Endangered
Species
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
AGENCY:
TABLE 1—ISSUED PERMITS AND PERMIT AMENDMENTS
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Permit No.
RTID
20430–01 ......
0648–XE938
25563 ............
0648–XB303
25770 ............
0648–XB298
25943 ............
0648–XB509
Applicant
Previous Federal Register notice
Issuance date
James Harvey, Ph.D., Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, 8272 Moss
Landing Road, Moss Landing, CA 95039.
NMFS Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Marine Mammal Laboratory,
7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115 (Responsible Party:
John Bengtson, Ph.D.).
Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California at Santa Cruz,
Santa Cruz, CA 95064 (Responsible Party: Daniel Costa, Ph.D.).
Stephen Trumble, Ph.D., Baylor University, 101 Bagby Ave., Waco,
TX 76706.
84 FR 48600; September 16, 2019
November 30, 2021.
86 FR 43528; August 9, 2021 ........
November 8, 2021.
86 FR 42791; August 5, 2021 ........
November 19, 2021.
86 FR 57414; October 15, 2021 ....
November 23, 2021.
In compliance with the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42
U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), a final
determination has been made that the
activities proposed are categorically
excluded from the requirement to
prepare an environmental assessment or
environmental impact statement.
As required by the ESA, as applicable,
issuance of these permit was based on
a finding that such permits: (1) Were
applied for in good faith; (2) will not
operate to the disadvantage of such
endangered species; and (3) are
consistent with the purposes and
policies set forth in Section 2 of the
ESA.
Authority: The requested permits
have been issued under the MMPA of
1972, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1361 et
seq.), the regulations governing the
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taking and importing of marine
mammals (50 CFR part 216), the ESA of
1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et
seq.), and the regulations governing the
taking, importing, and exporting of
endangered and threatened species (50
CFR parts 222–226), as applicable.
Dated: December 8, 2021.
Julia M. Harrison,
Chief, Permits and Conservation Division,
Office of Protected Resources, National
Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
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Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management
Council; Reopening of Federal
Funding Opportunity
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; reopening of request for
proposals to address expanded sampling
of the fleet for effort monitoring in the
Gulf of Mexico shrimp industry.
AGENCY:
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery
Management Council is reopening the
SUMMARY:
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requesting proposals from highlyqualified contractors to organize and
expand a vessel position monitoring
system for the federally permitted Gulf
of Mexico Shrimp industry.
DATES: This will be a 12–18 month
project and a maximum $350,000 is
available to fund the work. Proposal
Submission Deadline: January 10, 2022
by 11:59 p.m. EST.
ADDRESSES: Council address: Gulf of
Mexico Fishery Management Council,
4107 W Spruce Street, Suite 200,
Tampa, FL 33607; telephone: (813) 348–
1630.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Carrie Simmons, Executive Director,
Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management
Council; carrie.simmons@
gulfcouncil.org; telephone: (813) 348–
1630 ext. 2310.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Deadline for Reopened Proposal
Submission: Monday, January 10, 2022
by 11:59 p.m. EST
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery
Management Council (Council)
published a notice in the Federal
Register on July 28, 2021 seeking
submissions of a highly-qualified
contractor to organize and expand a
vessel position monitoring system for
the federally permitted Gulf of Mexico
Shrimp industry (86 FR 40494). This
request for submissions is hereby
reopened.
The current Gulf of Mexico electronic
logbook (ELB) program that utilized a
3G cellular network to transmit data is
no longer supported, and the server
became unviable for data storage in
December 2020.
The Council, in coordination with
NMFS, is seeking to develop a new
program that will provide for continued
collection, storage, and transmission of
shrimp vessel position data that are
used to estimate shrimping effort. This
new program is intended to replace the
current Shrimp ELB program which no
longer transmits data through the 3G
cellular network.
The need for this study is to test the
P-Sea WindPlot software program with
a portion of the shrimp fleet in the near
term to determine if it meets the needs
of industry, Council, and NMFS. The
newly developed program will
ultimately need to meet NMFS
hardware and software approval to be
utilized throughout the shrimp industry.
Proposals should identify by region/
state the number of vessels that will
volunteer to participate in the proposed
pilot program for vessel position
monitoring in the Gulf of Mexico. The
proposed work should clearly define
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methodology and intent for meeting the
NMFS software and hardware
requirements while documenting the
estimated costs to the industry. The
proposal should detail the methodology
proposed for archiving the vessel
location, data retention, and automatic
transmission of the data to NMFS when
within cellular/satellite range of land.
The Council will develop an
agreement with the selected
contractor(s) with milestones and
deliverables after the review and
selection process. The selected
contractor(s) will work with Council
staff.
Background
During its January 2021 meeting, the
Council identified unspent Council
funds from the 2020 fiscal year. The
Council is considering funding an
expanded study that utilizes P-Sea
WindPlot software as a replacement for
the recently discontinued shrimp ELB
program. Preliminary meetings with
industry, such as the Shrimp Advisory
Panel meeting suggest that a majority of
the shrimp fleet currently use the P-Sea
WindPlot software program, which is
installed on a desktop or laptop
computer housed onboard the vessel;
thus, the learning curve and potential
annual cellular/satellite expenses are
anticipated to be minimal. Further,
leaders in the Gulf of Mexico shrimp
industry support using this type of
software program.
Scope of Work
The contractor will be responsible for
all data products outlined below and is
encouraged to contribute additional
products and suggestions in the
proposal for this work. The selected
contractor will also be responsible for
presenting the mid-term and final
project summary report to the Council’s
Scientific and Statistical Committees
and to the Council. The proposed scope
of work should include the following:
• The proposal must consider the use
of P-Sea WindPlot software to collect
the vessel position data for shrimp
vessels, as this is the preferred software
by industry.
Æ The version(s) of P-sea WindPlot
required would be: WindPlot 7.29 or
Windplot 7.28 versions updated later
than May 2021 (contractor should
include budgetary considerations for
these versions in the proposal).
Æ File type is binary. Currently, P-sea
WindPlot collects latitude and longitude
date and time stamp—every 10 minutes
as the default. However, the software
version listed above allow for different
latitude and longitude and time stamp
intervals other than 10 minutes (See the
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example of DAT file contents in
Attachment 1).
Æ Approximate size of file that would
be generated prior to data compression
is estimated to be 1 megabyte for a 30day trip at sea with pings every 10
minutes.
Æ The contractor may also propose
testing other hardware/software options
simultaneously that meet the needs of
industry, Council, and NMFS. The
proposal should include the rationale
and viability of any other hardwaresoftware options proposed.
• The proposal should detail the
methodology proposed for archiving the
vessel position location, data retention,
security, and automatic transmission of
the data to a secure server when within
cellular/satellite range of land. The
contractor will be requested to provide
an example of a detailed authentication
process since the NMFS security and
authentication requirements are not yet
determined for the shrimp industry. The
contractor should describe a server or
similar storage system that would be
used to demonstrate the automatic data
transmission.
• The proposal should identify, by
state, the number of shrimp vessels
actively participating in the fishery that
will volunteer to participate in the
proposed work in the Gulf of Mexico.
This should be a representative
subsample of the fleet using a random
stratified approach.
• The proposed work should clearly
define methodology and intent for
meeting the NMFS software and
hardware requirements approval
process. For example, outline the
methodology proposed to automatically
transmit vessel position data, from the
hardware/software device(s) onboard
the shrimp vessel to a secure server
when within cellular/satellite range.
• The proposal should detail the
estimated costs to the industry for
hardware/software, vessel position data
storage, and monthly cellular/satellite
transmission fees. The proposal should
outline details about analysis of data
from individual position points per
vessel in the program that will be
synthesized into vessel effort
monitoring on a monthly basis.
Results and outcomes from this work
will be provided to the Council and
NMFS Southeast Fisheries Science
Center.
The contractor will be responsible for
all data products outlined below and is
encouraged to contribute additional
products and suggestions in the
proposal for this work. The selected
contractor will also be responsible for
presenting the mid-term and final
project summary report to the Council’s
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Scientific and Statistical Committees
and to the Council. The proposed scope
of work should include the following:
• The proposal must consider the use
of P-Sea WindPlot software to collect
the vessel position data for shrimp
vessels, as this is the preferred software
by industry. However, the contractor
may also propose testing other
hardware/software options
simultaneously that meet the needs of
industry, Council, and NMFS. The
proposal should include the rationale
and viability of any other hardwaresoftware options proposed.
• The proposal should detail the
methodology proposed for archiving the
vessel position location, data retention,
security, and automatic transmission of
the data to a secure server when within
cellular/satellite range of land.
• The proposal should identify, by
state, the number of shrimp vessels
actively participating in the fishery that
will volunteer to participate in the
proposed work in the Gulf of Mexico.
This should be a representative
subsample of the fleet using a random
stratified approach.
• The proposed work should clearly
define methodology and intent for
meeting the NMFS software and
hardware requirements approval
process. For example, outline the
methodology proposed to automatically
transmit vessel position data, from the
hardware/software device(s) onboard
the shrimp vessel to a secure server
when within cellular/satellite range.
• The proposal should detail the
estimated costs to the industry for
hardware/software, vessel position data
storage, and monthly cellular/satellite
transmission fees. The proposal should
outline details about analysis of data
from individual position points per
vessel in the program that will be
synthesized into vessel effort
monitoring on a monthly basis.
Results and outcomes from this work
will be provided to the Council and
NMFS Southeast Fisheries Science
Center.
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Application Process
Contractor Qualifications: The
successful applicant or applicant team
will have demonstrable experience in
fisheries, marine ecology, spatial
management, or related field.
How to Apply: Applicants should
submit a proposal to Gulf of Mexico
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Fishery Management Council by email
(rfp.shrimpmonitoring@gulfcouncil.org)
by 11:59 p.m. EST on January 10, 2022.
Requests for additional information can
also be accepted at this email address or
visit our website at https://
gulfcouncil.org/about/request-forproposals/. Proposals should include
the following elements and should not
exceed 25 pages, excluding the
Qualifications of Applicant and Letters
of Support:
Executive Summary: A summary of
the work proposed, including a brief
summary of the applicant’s
qualifications.
Proposed Scope of Work: See bulleted
list above.
Qualifications of Applicant: A
summary of the qualifications of the
applicant and other team members, if
applicable. A curriculum vitae should
be included for each individual who is
expected to work on the project.
Proposed Budget: A detailed budget,
including the basis for the charges (e.g.,
hourly rates, fixed fees, approved
federally negotiated overhead rate and
other costs consistent with federally
allowable costs for sub-contractors).
Travel costs for meeting with industry
volunteers should be detailed. The
proposal should also budget for
traveling to SSC and Council meetings
to present a mid-term and a final report,
for an approximate total of four inperson meetings.
Letters of Support: Letters
demonstrating collaboration with
shrimp industry leaders will be ranked
higher.
Proposed Timeline: A detailed
timeline for working with industry
representatives, testing of hardware/
software devices, data transmission
testing, data analyses, and mid-term and
final reports should be provided.
Applicant References: Names, titles,
full addresses, email addresses, and
phone numbers for three clients for
whom the applicant has provided
similar services to those requested or are
familiar with the applicant’s work and
the quality of the applicant’s work
products.
timely manner a quality work product,
references, timeline, and budget. The
Council may request additional
information as deemed necessary or
negotiate modifications prior to
providing support for a proposal. Once
a proposal is selected for funding, a
formal contract will be developed with
the applicants.
Proposal Evaluation Criteria and Next
Steps
Dated: December 7, 2021.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
Proposals will be evaluated based on
methodology and scope outlined in the
proposed work plan including but not
limited to the ability to deliver, in a
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Disclaimer
1. This project is being funded by
Federal funding authorized under the
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act
through NOAA Fisheries Service and
the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management
Council NOAA award number:
NA20NMF4410011. Compliance with
the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act
(Pub. L. 104–208 as amended), the
current requirements of the Federal
Office of Management and Budget, the
Department of Commerce financial
assistance standard terms and
conditions, the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric financial assistance
administrative terms, all special award
conditions specific to this award and all
parts of the Uniform Guidance at Title
2 of the Code of Federal Regulations
must be maintained.
2. The contractor is responsible for all
costs conducting the work and
presenting the mid-term and final
results to the Scientific and Statistical
Committees and Council.
3. Proposals and their accompanying
documentation will not be returned, but
retained as part of the Council’s
administrative documents.
4. All applicants included in the
proposal must disclose any conflicts of
interest and/or pending civil/criminal/
fishery legal actions.
5. The Council reserves the right to
accept or reject any or all applications
received, negotiate with all qualified
applicants, cancel or modify this request
for proposals in part or in its entirety,
or change the application guidelines,
when it is in the best interests of the
Council.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[RTID 0648-XB630]
Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council; Reopening of Federal
Funding Opportunity
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; reopening of request for proposals to address expanded
sampling of the fleet for effort monitoring in the Gulf of Mexico
shrimp industry.
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SUMMARY: The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council is reopening the
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requesting proposals from highly-qualified contractors to organize and
expand a vessel position monitoring system for the federally permitted
Gulf of Mexico Shrimp industry.
DATES: This will be a 12-18 month project and a maximum $350,000 is
available to fund the work. Proposal Submission Deadline: January 10,
2022 by 11:59 p.m. EST.
ADDRESSES: Council address: Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council,
4107 W Spruce Street, Suite 200, Tampa, FL 33607; telephone: (813) 348-
1630.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Carrie Simmons, Executive
Director, Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council;
[email protected]; telephone: (813) 348-1630 ext. 2310.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Deadline for Reopened Proposal Submission: Monday, January 10, 2022 by
11:59 p.m. EST
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Council) published a
notice in the Federal Register on July 28, 2021 seeking submissions of
a highly-qualified contractor to organize and expand a vessel position
monitoring system for the federally permitted Gulf of Mexico Shrimp
industry (86 FR 40494). This request for submissions is hereby
reopened.
The current Gulf of Mexico electronic logbook (ELB) program that
utilized a 3G cellular network to transmit data is no longer supported,
and the server became unviable for data storage in December 2020.
The Council, in coordination with NMFS, is seeking to develop a new
program that will provide for continued collection, storage, and
transmission of shrimp vessel position data that are used to estimate
shrimping effort. This new program is intended to replace the current
Shrimp ELB program which no longer transmits data through the 3G
cellular network.
The need for this study is to test the P-Sea WindPlot software
program with a portion of the shrimp fleet in the near term to
determine if it meets the needs of industry, Council, and NMFS. The
newly developed program will ultimately need to meet NMFS hardware and
software approval to be utilized throughout the shrimp industry.
Proposals should identify by region/state the number of vessels
that will volunteer to participate in the proposed pilot program for
vessel position monitoring in the Gulf of Mexico. The proposed work
should clearly define methodology and intent for meeting the NMFS
software and hardware requirements while documenting the estimated
costs to the industry. The proposal should detail the methodology
proposed for archiving the vessel location, data retention, and
automatic transmission of the data to NMFS when within cellular/
satellite range of land.
The Council will develop an agreement with the selected
contractor(s) with milestones and deliverables after the review and
selection process. The selected contractor(s) will work with Council
staff.
Background
During its January 2021 meeting, the Council identified unspent
Council funds from the 2020 fiscal year. The Council is considering
funding an expanded study that utilizes P-Sea WindPlot software as a
replacement for the recently discontinued shrimp ELB program.
Preliminary meetings with industry, such as the Shrimp Advisory Panel
meeting suggest that a majority of the shrimp fleet currently use the
P-Sea WindPlot software program, which is installed on a desktop or
laptop computer housed onboard the vessel; thus, the learning curve and
potential annual cellular/satellite expenses are anticipated to be
minimal. Further, leaders in the Gulf of Mexico shrimp industry support
using this type of software program.
Scope of Work
The contractor will be responsible for all data products outlined
below and is encouraged to contribute additional products and
suggestions in the proposal for this work. The selected contractor will
also be responsible for presenting the mid-term and final project
summary report to the Council's Scientific and Statistical Committees
and to the Council. The proposed scope of work should include the
following:
The proposal must consider the use of P-Sea WindPlot
software to collect the vessel position data for shrimp vessels, as
this is the preferred software by industry.
[cir] The version(s) of P-sea WindPlot required would be: WindPlot
7.29 or Windplot 7.28 versions updated later than May 2021 (contractor
should include budgetary considerations for these versions in the
proposal).
[cir] File type is binary. Currently, P-sea WindPlot collects
latitude and longitude date and time stamp--every 10 minutes as the
default. However, the software version listed above allow for different
latitude and longitude and time stamp intervals other than 10 minutes
(See the example of DAT file contents in Attachment 1).
[cir] Approximate size of file that would be generated prior to
data compression is estimated to be 1 megabyte for a 30-day trip at sea
with pings every 10 minutes.
[cir] The contractor may also propose testing other hardware/
software options simultaneously that meet the needs of industry,
Council, and NMFS. The proposal should include the rationale and
viability of any other hardware-software options proposed.
The proposal should detail the methodology proposed for
archiving the vessel position location, data retention, security, and
automatic transmission of the data to a secure server when within
cellular/satellite range of land. The contractor will be requested to
provide an example of a detailed authentication process since the NMFS
security and authentication requirements are not yet determined for the
shrimp industry. The contractor should describe a server or similar
storage system that would be used to demonstrate the automatic data
transmission.
The proposal should identify, by state, the number of
shrimp vessels actively participating in the fishery that will
volunteer to participate in the proposed work in the Gulf of Mexico.
This should be a representative subsample of the fleet using a random
stratified approach.
The proposed work should clearly define methodology and
intent for meeting the NMFS software and hardware requirements approval
process. For example, outline the methodology proposed to automatically
transmit vessel position data, from the hardware/software device(s)
onboard the shrimp vessel to a secure server when within cellular/
satellite range.
The proposal should detail the estimated costs to the
industry for hardware/software, vessel position data storage, and
monthly cellular/satellite transmission fees. The proposal should
outline details about analysis of data from individual position points
per vessel in the program that will be synthesized into vessel effort
monitoring on a monthly basis.
Results and outcomes from this work will be provided to the Council
and NMFS Southeast Fisheries Science Center.
The contractor will be responsible for all data products outlined
below and is encouraged to contribute additional products and
suggestions in the proposal for this work. The selected contractor will
also be responsible for presenting the mid-term and final project
summary report to the Council's
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Scientific and Statistical Committees and to the Council. The proposed
scope of work should include the following:
The proposal must consider the use of P-Sea WindPlot
software to collect the vessel position data for shrimp vessels, as
this is the preferred software by industry. However, the contractor may
also propose testing other hardware/software options simultaneously
that meet the needs of industry, Council, and NMFS. The proposal should
include the rationale and viability of any other hardware-software
options proposed.
The proposal should detail the methodology proposed for
archiving the vessel position location, data retention, security, and
automatic transmission of the data to a secure server when within
cellular/satellite range of land.
The proposal should identify, by state, the number of
shrimp vessels actively participating in the fishery that will
volunteer to participate in the proposed work in the Gulf of Mexico.
This should be a representative subsample of the fleet using a random
stratified approach.
The proposed work should clearly define methodology and
intent for meeting the NMFS software and hardware requirements approval
process. For example, outline the methodology proposed to automatically
transmit vessel position data, from the hardware/software device(s)
onboard the shrimp vessel to a secure server when within cellular/
satellite range.
The proposal should detail the estimated costs to the
industry for hardware/software, vessel position data storage, and
monthly cellular/satellite transmission fees. The proposal should
outline details about analysis of data from individual position points
per vessel in the program that will be synthesized into vessel effort
monitoring on a monthly basis.
Results and outcomes from this work will be provided to the Council
and NMFS Southeast Fisheries Science Center.
Application Process
Contractor Qualifications: The successful applicant or applicant
team will have demonstrable experience in fisheries, marine ecology,
spatial management, or related field.
How to Apply: Applicants should submit a proposal to Gulf of Mexico
Fishery Management Council by email
([email protected]) by 11:59 p.m. EST on January 10,
2022. Requests for additional information can also be accepted at this
email address or visit our website at https://gulfcouncil.org/about/request-for-proposals/. Proposals should include the following elements
and should not exceed 25 pages, excluding the Qualifications of
Applicant and Letters of Support:
Executive Summary: A summary of the work proposed, including a
brief summary of the applicant's qualifications.
Proposed Scope of Work: See bulleted list above.
Qualifications of Applicant: A summary of the qualifications of the
applicant and other team members, if applicable. A curriculum vitae
should be included for each individual who is expected to work on the
project.
Proposed Budget: A detailed budget, including the basis for the
charges (e.g., hourly rates, fixed fees, approved federally negotiated
overhead rate and other costs consistent with federally allowable costs
for sub-contractors). Travel costs for meeting with industry volunteers
should be detailed. The proposal should also budget for traveling to
SSC and Council meetings to present a mid-term and a final report, for
an approximate total of four in-person meetings.
Letters of Support: Letters demonstrating collaboration with shrimp
industry leaders will be ranked higher.
Proposed Timeline: A detailed timeline for working with industry
representatives, testing of hardware/software devices, data
transmission testing, data analyses, and mid-term and final reports
should be provided.
Applicant References: Names, titles, full addresses, email
addresses, and phone numbers for three clients for whom the applicant
has provided similar services to those requested or are familiar with
the applicant's work and the quality of the applicant's work products.
Proposal Evaluation Criteria and Next Steps
Proposals will be evaluated based on methodology and scope outlined
in the proposed work plan including but not limited to the ability to
deliver, in a timely manner a quality work product, references,
timeline, and budget. The Council may request additional information as
deemed necessary or negotiate modifications prior to providing support
for a proposal. Once a proposal is selected for funding, a formal
contract will be developed with the applicants.
Disclaimer
1. This project is being funded by Federal funding authorized under
the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act through
NOAA Fisheries Service and the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management
Council NOAA award number: NA20NMF4410011. Compliance with the
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Pub. L. 104-
208 as amended), the current requirements of the Federal Office of
Management and Budget, the Department of Commerce financial assistance
standard terms and conditions, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
financial assistance administrative terms, all special award conditions
specific to this award and all parts of the Uniform Guidance at Title 2
of the Code of Federal Regulations must be maintained.
2. The contractor is responsible for all costs conducting the work
and presenting the mid-term and final results to the Scientific and
Statistical Committees and Council.
3. Proposals and their accompanying documentation will not be
returned, but retained as part of the Council's administrative
documents.
4. All applicants included in the proposal must disclose any
conflicts of interest and/or pending civil/criminal/fishery legal
actions.
5. The Council reserves the right to accept or reject any or all
applications received, negotiate with all qualified applicants, cancel
or modify this request for proposals in part or in its entirety, or
change the application guidelines, when it is in the best interests of
the Council.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: December 7, 2021.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2021-26851 Filed 12-10-21; 8:45 am]
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