Inactive Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5)

INTRODUCTION This is a Small Business Sources Sought notice. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. The purpose of this notice is to obtain information regarding ... INTRODUCTION This is a Small Business Sources Sought notice. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. The purpose of this notice is to obtain information regarding the availability and capability of qualified small business sources. This notice is strictly for market research and information purposes only. Your responses will assist the Government in determining the appropriate acquisition method, including whether a set-aside is possible. NMFS is seeking responses from all responsible small business concerns. Small businesses are defined under the associated NAICS code for this effort, 332999 (All Other Miscellaneous Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing), as those domestic sources having 750 or fewer employees. BACKGROUND: A collaborative reef fish survey in the Gulf of Mexico has been ongoing since ~2008 involving the 3 aforementioned entities. Since its inception, the camera and methodology have been standardized and calibrated such that data are easily combinable, providing a much more statistically strong estimate of relative abundance. Stationary camera arrays are deployed on natural and artificial reefs for 30 minutes each with a combined target of ~2000/year (US Gulf of Mexico to 200m depth). Recently the Panama City Lab has more than doubled the number of stations completed per year and is the only data provider for this survey in the North Central Gulf of Mexico (Mississippi River to Cape San Blas) where much of the commercial and recreational offshore fishing occurs. TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS: The camera housing will consist of a central hexagonal pressure housing (rated to 500m depth) with five camera lens domes around the horizontal field of view, and data and power penetrator connectors (two 13 pin, one 4 pin, one 6 pin). Additionally there must be room for an Intel NUC computer, power regulator, laptop hard drive, and associated cables (Images attached). Two separate single domed housings will also be provided, with each fitted for a FLIR/ PointGrey Blackfly camera with a Kowa 6mm lens. Two separate battery housings each capable of enclosing two batteries (Battery Space: LMN-26650-7S3PWR) with string lock ends, rotating switch, 4-pin penetrator fitting, and pressure release valve as well as an aluminum mounting plate to hold all components together (see attached schematics). Additionally, all parts must be interchangeable with current spherical/stereo cameras operated by the SEFSC. This camera will be deployed remotely (dropped off of boat to seafloor) and retrieved multiple times. The aluminum parts must be hard anodized and have sacrificial anodes to prevent corrosion. The video from the five primary cameras will be stitched together to make a hemi-spherical video with two satellite cameras paired with camera positions one and three.