Air Services - Sea Ice Buoy Deployments

The contract action was both fixed-priced and competitive. A description of the requirement is as follows:

The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL)'s Terrestrial & Cryospheric Sciences Branch requires air charter services to include an aircraft, pilot, and crew, in March 2024 to support sea ice research on floating ice masses located offshore from Northern Alaska. The aircraft shall land on unimproved drifting sea ice located up to 300nm (nautical miles) from base locations in Prudhoe Bay, Utqiagvik, and Kaktovik, Alaska to deploy research buoys provided by the Government. Unimproved landing sites are typically refrozen leads with little snow and ice over 80cm thick. On-ice time can vary from 15 minutes to 4 hours to deploy the buoy and collect necessary site data.