Opportunity: Estimating the Fiscal Spending and Profit Impacts

PLEASE READ THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY AS IT CONSTITUTES THE ONLY NOTICE THAT WILL BE ISSUED. This procurement is being conducted in accordance with FAR Part 15, Contracting by Negotiation. The Department of the Interior (DOI), Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), on behalf of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), intends to competitively award a Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) type of contract as a result of this notice. There are no set aside restrictions. The BSEE, Acquisition Operations Branch, is the contracting office for this procurement and the resulting contract administration. All potential Offerors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database at www.sam.gov in order to receive Government awards. The applicable NAICS Code is 541620, Environmental Consulting Services. The period of performance of the resultant contract is expected to be thirty-six (36) months from the date of award. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) estimates the scales and geographic distributions of economic impacts arising from Gulf of Mexico offshore oil and gas activities for National Environmental Policy Act documents, 5-Year Program Documents, and annual U.S. Department of the Interior Economic Reports. BOEM has developed a model for estimating the impacts of industry spending, government revenues, and corporate profits in prior years based on the values of sales of oil and gas from federal offshore areas. This study contract will build on BOEM¿s current methods in various ways. For example, this study will explore ways to translate those methods when considering future oil and gas activities, both in aggregate and for specific BOEM actions. The link below and the attachment entitled ¿Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. 2017. 2016 DOI economic contribution methodology¿ provides additional information to aid potential offerors. Kaplan MF, Marvakov J, Meade B, Ertis D. 2016. MAG-PLAN GOM 2016: economic impact model for the Gulf of Mexico. New Orleans, LA: US Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region. OCS Study BOEM 2016-072. Website: http://www.data.boem.gov/PI/PDFImages/ESPIS/5/5569.pdf. HOW TO COMPETE FOR THIS CONTRACT: If you are interested in participating in this competition, please send your organization¿s name, business size status, point of contact, address, telephone number, email address and DUNS Number via email to the Contracting Officer, Herma J. Banks, at herma.banks@bsee.gov at the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) 24 July 2017. Reference Solicitation No.: M17PS00048 on all correspondence. Inquiries must be submitted in writing to the email address referenced above. Telephone inquiries are strongly discouraged. Those organizations expressing an interest in this opportunity will receive a copy of the complete solicitation upon issuance. The solicitation is anticipated to be released on or around 27 July 2017