Notice of Intent to Award to a Sole Sourceview on SAM.gov

This is a notice of intent to solicit from a single source. The US Geological Survey (USGS) intends to award a purchase order to Innovasea Marine Systems Canada Inc. in Bedford, Nova Scotia, for 43 Innovasea NexTrak R1 acoustic telemetry receivers and 150 compatible V16-4x 64 kHz kHz acoustic transmitters to support long-term telemetry monitoring of migratory fishes throughout Atlantic coast river systems and estuaries. The delivered acoustic receivers and tags must: - Operate at a frequency of 69 kHz to ensure compatibility with existing collaborative telemetry arrays and coastwide telemetry infrastructure. - Be compatible with all Innovasea coded 69 kHz transmitters and sensor tags currently used by partner institutions and monitoring programs. - Support long-term riverine and estuarine deployments with receiver battery life of approximately 13 months. - Provide sufficient onboard storage capacity to support extended deployments with approximately 5 million detections. - Support deployments in a wide range of aquatic environments with a minimum depth rating of 750 meters. - Include logging capabilities for environmental and operational metrics including noise, tilt, temperature, and signal strength. - Include programmable self-transmitter functionality to support equipment diagnostics and deployment verification. - Integrate with Fathom Connect software for efficient telemetry data offload, management, and analysis. - Be compatible with the VR100-300 Deckbox and VHTx 69 kHz transponding hydrophone system for communication with deployed receivers. - Include acoustic transmitters capable of long-term monitoring of migratory fish species in riverine, estuarine, and coastal environments. - Include acoustic transmitters with variable programming options appropriate for a range of species and study objectives, including Atlantic sturgeon, shortnose sturgeon, American eel, striped bass, and river herring. - Include coded acoustic transmitters capable of providing unique identification codes to allow simultaneous monitoring of large numbers of tagged fish within collaborative telemetry arrays. - Include acoustic tags with battery life sufficient to support seasonal, multi-year, or long-term movement studies depending on project requirements. - Include acoustic tags capable of transmitting environmental or biological sensor information, including depth and temperature, where required for project objectives. - Include acoustic tags designed for high detection efficiency and compatibility with existing Innovasea receiver infrastructure currently deployed throughout Atlantic coast telemetry networks. - Include acoustic transmitters and sensor tags fully compatible with coastwide telemetry databases and collaborative data-sharing frameworks utilized by state, federal, academic, and non-governmental telemetry partners. Award will be made in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) procedures at FAR Part 12 entitled, Acquisition of Commercial Item…