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PRRIP - ED OFFICE FINAL <br />01/09/2008 <br />. PLATTE RIVER RECOVERY IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAM <br />Proposal Evaluation Rating Criteria <br />Stage Change Study RFP <br />This document provides some basic rating criteria for evaluating proposals submitted in response <br />to the Program's Stage Change Study RFP. When used in conjunction with the Proposal Rating <br />Sheet, these criteria should allow each member of the Proposal Evaluation Team to provide a <br />generally objective review of each submitted proposal. <br />OVERALL OBJECTIVE <br />The purpose of the stage change study is to develop information needed to evaluate the effects of <br />Program water management activities, including new activities covered by state or federal <br />depletion plans, on water stage and how those stage changes affect physical parameters in the <br />lower Platter River from the Elkhorn River confluence to the Missouri River confluence. <br />TECHNICAL PROPOSAL <br />Qualifications & Experience of Contractor Firm <br />Proposal provides description of relevant projects over past five years including name, address, <br />and phone number of contracting officer for the client and identification of key participants and <br />their tasks on previous projects who would also be working on this study. <br />Qualifications and Experience of Project Principals <br />Proposal includes resumes of proposed key participants and subcontractors. Resumes address <br />experience on projects similar to this study. Desired expertise includes familiarity with pallid <br />sturgeon biology and the key physical parameters, river hydraulics and hydrology, the lower <br />Platte River, and river monitoring and research techniques. <br />Protocol Development Approach <br />• Proposal addresses the following physical parameters — flow quantity, depth, velocity, <br />temperature, turbidity, and sediment /sandbars/bedforms at selected sites throughout the study <br />reach and over the range of discharges which are important in determining these parameters. <br />• Proposal details needed methods to obtain data, the appropriate discharge /stage measurement <br />intervals necessary for achieving the desired level of precision, and the efficacy of applying <br />these methods over a larger range of flows. <br />• Proposal provides information sufficient to estimate changes in these physical parameters <br />across the identified range of flows on a micro -, meso -, and macro -scale that occur during the <br />study period and as can be determined from historic information. <br />• Proposal states how it will draw inferences to the types of process changes that would occur <br />in the system as a result of river stage changes. <br />• Information provided is sufficient to determine if Program water activities can be statistically <br />identified from base flow conditions. <br />• Information provided is sufficient to determine if Program water activities have a statistically <br />significant impact on stage, velocity, temperature, turbidity, substrate, or channel <br />morphology. <br />