Water Quality Sampling for Phytoplankton Analysis

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District, intends to award a firm fixed price contract for commercial, non-personal phytoplankton analysis services of water from samples covering the Lower Columbia Subbasin, Willamette Subbasin, and Rogue River Basin Reservoirs. The contract will be awarded to Aquatic Analysts, Inc., a small laboratory that has been providing phytoplankton analysis services to the US Army Corps of Engineers since 1985. • The contract is for phytoplankton analysis of water quality samples. • The laboratory must have specialized taxonomic identification and enumeration of Pacific Northwest phytoplankton species. • The contract is a sole source action, and the statutory authority for this non-competitive acquisition is FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i) as implemented by FAR 6.302-1 and DFARS 206.302-1. • The NAICS code for this contract is 541380, and the size standard as defined by the U.S. Small Business Administration is $19.0M.