Funding:
DEEPWATER HORIZON RESPONSE; June 3, 2011
Agency
Department
of Homeland Security
Description
Background
The Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA 90) and applicable Federal legislation and regulations
provide the USCG with broad responsibilities and authorities regarding oil
spill response oversight on the navigable waters of the United States. Included
are responsibilities and authorities to conduct, in coordination with other
Federal agencies, research on innovative oil spill technology. In accordance
with these responsibilities and authorities and in light of the numerous offers
of innovative technology assistance to the response effort associated with the
recent Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the United States Coast
Guard Research and Development Center (USCG RDC), at the request of the Federal
On-Scene Coordinator (FOSC) and the National Incident Commander (NIC), has
issued this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the purpose of organizing the
collection and enhancing the Deepwater Horizon Response Team assessment of the
technology assistance offers.
This
announcement constitutes a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) issued under the
provisions of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), Subparts 6.102(d)(2)
and 35.016, to provide for the submission of White Papers (written description
of the idea) in support of the Deepwater Horizon Response under the following
five technology gap areas:
1. Oil Sensing Improvements to Response
and Detection
(For example, tactical oil sensing, surface
oil tracking and reporting, submerged oil detection, submerged oil tracking and
reporting, etc.)
2. Oil Wellhead Control and Submerged Oil
Response
(For
example, wellhead spill control, wellhead shutoff measures, submerged oil
collection, submerged oil treatment, etc.)
3. Traditional Oil Spill Response
Technologies
(For
example, booms, skimmers, surface collections techniques, absorbents, near- and
on-shore response, innovative applications not commonly used for oil spill
response, disposal, etc.)
4. Alternative Oil Spill Response
Technologies
(For
example, In-situ burn, alternative chemical treatments, innovative applications
not commonly used for oil response, etc.)
5. Oil Spill Damage Assessment and
Restoration
(For
example, damage assessment techniques, tracking surface restoration
technologies and submerged restoration technologies, etc.)
Paper
copies of this announcement will not be issued.
Offerors shall respond to this BAA by
electronically submitting a White Paper at www.homeport.uscg.mil/RDC-BAA-DHR. All
contractual and technical questions regarding this BAA must be in writing and
sent to RDC-BAA-DHR@uscg.mil. Informational questions and associated
answers (i.e. FAQs) will be periodically posted at http://www.homeport.uscg.mil/RDC-BAA-DHR-FAQ.
White
Papers shall provide technology ideas/solutions to support the five technology
gap areas identified above. Offerors are hereby notified that it is highly likely that
White Papers may be shared with several different Government agencies and other
interested parties (which may include contractors) for review and
consideration.
Announcement
Number:
HSCG32-10-R-R00019
Closing
Date:
Jun 03, 2011 10:00 am Eastern
Link
to Full Announcement
Contact
Information
Contracting
Officer,
RDC
BAA Deepwater Horizon Response
Phone:
860-271-2807