Question NMNH Department of Entomology Contracting Opportunity: ACG Macro Moths, Year 2

=12.0pt**Please distribute to any potential contractors that may be interested in submitting bids for these contracts.**=12.0pt=12.0pt =12.0ptThe National Museum of Natural History Department of Entomology is seeking two (2) contractors to inventory, generate and place new data labels on the Janzen Area Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG) macro moths. The estimated duration of each contract will be 52 weeks (2080 hours).  It is anticipated that these two contracts would be concurrent not consecutive (i.e., two contractors working separately at the same time doing similar work but on different taxa). This work must be conducted onsite at the NMNH in Washington, DC. Please refer to the attached PDF containing the Request for Quote (RFQ), Statement of Work (SOW), and relevant attachments for more details and instructions on how to generate and submit a bid for this contract. =12.0pt =12.0ptProject Overview:=12.0pt =12.0ptIn the last decade, NMNH has absorbed and labeled most if not all of the material resulting from Dr. Dan Janzen’s long term study of moth diversity in the Area Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG) region of Costa Rica. Janzen has a longstanding agreement to deposit ACG material at NMNH, but recently donated material cannot be incorporated until proper specimen labels have been generated and affixed to the specimens. The specimens have already been databased at the specimen level so this is not a cataloguing project but does require extraction of data from Janzen’s research database to generate complete archival labels, adding USNMENT barcode labels and recording those numbers, submitting the data in Entomology’s EMu batch upload template file format, and finally incorporation into the collection. Although most of the material is sorted to species, morphospecies, or barcospecies (“BINs”), the contractor will generate and affix new data labels as needed (some already bear complete archival labels but most do not), affix USNMENT barcode labels, provide the data and barcode numbers to the Entomology Informatics Manager using the aforementioned template, and incorporate all of the ACG material into the collection. Project oversight by NMNH staff will include the Entomology Collections Manager Floyd Shockley to serve as the COTR for the contracts and day-to-day activities will be supervised by USDA scientist and Curator of Lepidoptera Paul Goldstein. =12.0pt =12.0ptAll bids must be submitted by 5 p.m. ET on Tuesday, June 4th, 2024. Follow the format set forth in section 4 of the attached Requests for Quote (RFQ) below “Information to be submitted with quotes.”  Make sure that you address each item fully in your bid submission. It's important to note that interested parties must be registered federal contractors in the System for Award Management (SAM) to respond to this RFQ. There are no benefits, tax or social security withholding associated with this contract. The contractor must pass a background investigation before work can begin. If you have questions, contact Floyd Shockley (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).  Of note, I will be out of the country next week, but will be watching email for questions from interested parties.=12.0pt =12.0ptBest,=12.0pt =12.0ptFloyd=12.0pt 

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Floyd W. Shockley, Ph.D., F.R.E.S. [He/Him/His]
Collections Manager/Dept. Co-Lead, Entomology
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