U--Internship Program for Northwest Fisheries Science Center (NWFSC)

The contractor shall provide the necessary labor, personnel, materials, equipment, etc., under an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity Type (IDIQ) Contract for various types of students, i.e., high school, community college, technical college, university undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduates; opportunities to enhance their classroom learning with practical work experience through mentored internships at NWFSC facilities. As well as providing teachers an opportunity to gain practical experience in the field of fisheries and related sciences. These internships will give students and teachers first-hand experience working in a fisheries research environment. Examples of potential internships under the program are: Computer Support, Fisheries Research, Marine Mammal Research, Fisheries Research (Salmon), Research Assistant, Research Assistant-Scientific Library, and Research Assistant-Marine Mammal. Task orders will be issued on an as-needed basis for tasks to be performed at the Government's facilities or research locations in Washington, Idaho, Oregon, and Northern California. Task orders may be issued in support of, but not necessarily limited to the following: 1) Living Resource Sampling and Environmental Data Collection; Assessment and Analysis of Environmental Quality; Acquire, Analysis and Interpretation; and Operations, Management and Information. Any task orders awarded under the resulting IDIQ contract will typically be either firm-fixed price or labor-hour based task order(s). The period of performance is for one (1) base year with four (4) additional one-year option(s). Documents for the Request for Proposals (RFP) will be available on or about June 18, 2007, to download through the Government's website at http://www.fedbizopps.gov/. No paper copies will be issued. Interested parties should use the FedBizOpps [REGISTER TO RECEIVE NOTIFICATION] and [REGISTER AS AN INTERESTED VENDOR] features which provides a notification when the RFP becomes available for download as well as all postings of information associated with this solicitation, thereafter. Each potential offeror is responsible for checking this website to gain all current information related to this solicitation. Any further announcements regarding this solicitation will be posted only at http://www.fedbizopps.gov/. The ESTIMATED response due date is July 18, 2007; however, the actual due date of offers will be stated within the solicitation documents. This procurement is full and open to all interested parties. The NAICS Code is 611710 for Educational Support with a size standard of $6.5 million. All questions of any nature regarding this solicitation should be sent via email addressed to contact@example.gov. All contractors doing business with the Government are now required to be registered with the Central Contractor Registry (CCR) and may register at the following web site: http://www.ccr.gov. This procurement requires offerors to complete the On-Line Representations and Certifications Application (ORCA) at https://orca.bpn.gov/. All responsible, responsive sources may submit an offer which will be considered by the Agency.