Notice ID: 1240BD24Q0006
The Ecoshare.com website had been maintained by the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service (USDA FS) as a platform for distributing ecology-related information for almost 25 years. It receives thousands of visits a year from ecologists from state, federal, and academic institutions. It warehouses key ecological material that reflects hundreds of thousands of USDA FS dollars in data collection and analysis. It had been managed as a .com website under contract with Tetra Tech (contract # AG-046W-D-09-0125). The most recent awarded contract ran through 2019 (see AWARD attached to market research documentation). During 2020-2022 the Ecoshare.com website was converted to a .gov environment by personnel of and per direction from the Chief Information Office (CIO). This process included extensive review of options for the site going forward. Both CIO and Data Resource Management (DRM) indicated they did not have the capacity to service the website once it was transferred to .gov and recommended we hire a contractor.
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