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Executive Summary
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... The committee examined and appraised each of the mission areas in which NOAA utilizes vessel support and identified types of projects potentially suitable for contracting by the private sector. The assessment of mission areas suitable for chartering was based on the evaluation of a number of identified technical and policy issues and the chartering experiences of other organizations.
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... The committee suggested that bathymetric surveys and selected fisheries stock assessments would be amenable to chartering, whereas research functions in atmospheric, oceanographic, or fisheries areas would be less so. Furthermore, due to the legal implications, surveying for nautical charts (hydrographic surveying)
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... The data from respondents were inconclusive due primarily to lack of specificity in standards and tolerances provided for each mission area. The committee believes that only through the issuance of a carefully prepared RFP, which would include incentives for high performance by contractors and clear intent to make a contract award, will competitive and reliable cost data be obtained.
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... Other agencies appear to have such authorization. It is not clear to the committee that NOAA is able to RECOMMENDATION: NOAA should establish agency policy and procedures to enter into long-term multlyear contracts for ship charters and related scientific services.
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  • noaa fleet
  • nautical charts
  • cost data
  • obtain ship

  • bathymetric surveying
  • legal implications
  • establish agency
  • agency policy
  • selected program

  • vessel chartering
  • accomplished directly
  • chartering commercial
  • survey ship
  • economic issues

  • noaa activities
  • marine resources
  • seriously considered
  • viable option
  • data acquisition

  • global ocean
  • drawn rfp
  • exclusive economic
  • multiyear chartering
  • contract award

  • central procurement
  • adequate vessel
  • direct costs
  • chartering authorization
  • ship operations


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