DOI Bureau of Reclamation RFQ: Structured Decision-Making Support

Notice ID:  140R2024Q0036

Related Notice:  140R2024Q0036

The long-term success of Structured Decision-Making (SDM) within Reclamation’s Klamath Basin Area Office (KBAO) will require developing trust among stakeholders and expertise within Reclamation. Tasks described here are expressly intended to assist Reclamation implement SDM over the contract term.

This document details the scope and deliverables for services provided to the US Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) for the KBAO SDM process. The scope of this Work Statement includes assisting to identify potential data, compiling, and making the data available, and the development of analytical models consistent with an adaptive plan and the SDM Framework in coordination with Reclamation, participating agencies, and stakeholders.

This Work Statement anticipates that agency and stakeholder representatives will provide the majority of the biological expertise and institutional knowledge. The Contractor would have an understanding of fish biology, hydrology, experience in analytic tools, the ability to make data and information publicly available, and facilitation skills for the use of the analytic tools in a transparent public process.

These efforts will be guided by the following themes designed to promote SDM development and capabilities within KBAO:

1. Project Management and Outreach Support for SDM
2. Data Discovery
3. Data Integration
4. Metrics and Model Development Curate SDM Decision Support Models (DSMs) and data developed by KBAO-funded efforts within Department of Interior (DOI) on a platform agreeable to DOI.
5. Continuously improve SDM products and the understanding of those products. Actively broadcast the transparent, open nature of the SDM products, facilitate their use in other processes (if applicable), and encourage participation in KBAO’s SDM process. Improve implementation and understanding of Reclamation-backed implementation efforts, which may include prioritizing research and monitoring, restoration, and making recommendations for system operations.

Task 1:  Project Management and Outreach Support for SDM

• Contractor will assist Reclamation and USGS/OSU by coordinating stakeholders to engage in Structured Decision Making in the Klamath Basin.
• Contractor will oversee Project Management for Reclamation and will provide Outreach Support to stakeholders.
• Contractor will assist Reclamation and USGS/OSU by developing a Project Management Plan for Structured Decision Making that will address at minimum: the technical approach, schedule, coordination among stakeholders, roles and responsibilities, risks and mitigation, proprietary information, insufficient data, competing data, insufficient capacity, scientific disagreement, policy positions, and inadequate participation.

Task 2 Data Discovery

• Data discovery will include two components. Outreach to and Coordination with partners, and the development of an Ontology Technical Memorandum (Ontology TM) to document the identification and organization of available datasets and analysis methods into a logical structure that supports access, and recall …

The period of performance is a base year plus four option years.

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