{"id":161,"date":"2020-11-02T11:01:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T16:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clients.dotgov.com\/esmc\/?page_id=161"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:36:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:36:51","slug":"esmc-technical-rfps","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/clients.dotgov.com\/esmc\/get-involved\/esmc-technical-rfps\/","title":{"rendered":"ESMC Technical RFPs"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row inner_container=”no” padding_top=”0″ padding_bottom=”20″][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”681″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” full_width=”yes”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row padding_top=”10″ padding_bottom=”20″][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”ESMC Technical RFPs” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The Ecosystem Services Market Research Consortium (ESMRC) Working Groups are focused on the research, development, demonstration and deployment of cost-effective, scalable technologies and approaches to launch an ecosystem services market. The Asset Quantification component of this work is led by Working Groups 1 and 2 who have been tasked with developing accurate, cost-effective and scalable quantification of agricultural management system impacts on soil C, net GHG (carbon, methane and nitrous oxide), water quality and water quantity. Working Group 1 (Carbon and GHG Assets) and Working Group 2 (Water Assets) have released the following RFPs.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row padding_top=”20″][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Current RFPs” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”Request for Proposals: Policy Paper on Ecosystem Service Asset Generation through Livestock Grazing on Public Lands” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]PROJECT SUMMARY: ESMC seeks development of a white paper on policies relevant to private, voluntary ecosystem services markets, to include carbon\/GHG, water quality, and water quantity credits. The white paper should assess the policy landscape to further inform the refinement of ESMC\u2019s protocols, business plan, pilot projects \u2013 including projects launched, soon to launch, and in planning stages, across the continental US \u2013 and ultimately the full market. For this assessment,\u00a0grazing on public lands<\/em>\u00a0encompasses the management of livestock on range, pasture, and silvopasture owned by state or federal government under a valid permit or lease with the appropriate agency. Since soil health is one important component of ecosystem services from agricultural working lands, we include the USDA NRCS definition of soil health as \u201cthe continued capacity of soil to function as a vital living ecosystem that sustains plants, animals, and humans.\u201d The geographic scope of the assessment is limited to the agricultural working lands of the lower 48 states.\u00a0View the full RFP here<\/strong><\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator border_width=”2″][vc_custom_heading text=”Working Group 1, Project 3 \u2013 N2O Quantification Through Surrogate Measurements” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]PROJECT SUMMARY: The purpose of this RFP is to find surrogate measurements for N2O to generate credits based on these measurements. The group would also like to quantify the tradeoffs and correlations between ecosystem services \u2013 e.g. correlations among GHG fluxes and correlations between GHG fluxes and water quality\/quantity measurements. Much as a single GHG flux may be estimated from another measurement, there is a strong potential that improvements in one ecosystem service will tend to improve another. Whether this is generalizable or whether there are risks that market-driven solutions for GHG or water will not have unintended consequences is not fully understood.\u00a0View full RFP here<\/a>.<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator border_width=”2″][vc_custom_heading text=”Working Group 1, Project 4 \u2013 Pilot Project Soil Sampling Protocol Evaluation” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]PROJECT SUMMARY: The purpose of this RFP is to design and implement comparative research studies in the context of ESMC pilot projects \u2013 pre-soil sampling stratification across selected ESMC pilot projects, evaluate soil sampling SOPs, associated uncertainties, and sampling costs; compare options for an ESMC Scope 3 Soil Sampling SOP against the full Scope 1 soil sampling SOP for model calibration\/validation and uncertainty in asset generation; test sampling intensity for optimal and accurate determination of baseline SOC stocks for prediction of Scope 3 SOC accretion using DNDC. The results of this are to determine a soil sampling SOP that will satisfy asset certification requirements equal to or better than current accepted protocols.\u00a0View full RFP here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The proposal submission period is now closed.[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator border_width=”2″][vc_custom_heading text=”Past RFPs” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”Working Group 1 Project 2: Soil Stratification App” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]PROJECT SUMMARY: This RFP seeks to engage one or multiple partners to build a web and\/or mobile platform that generates a set of points for soil sampling based on publicly available input data that produces high accuracy estimates of soil carbon stock changes due to management at a reasonable cost.\u00a0View full RFP\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Proposals must be submitted as a PDF document by email to Caroline Wade, ESMRC Program Director, at cwade@ecosystemservicesmarket.org by July 3rd, 8pm ET. Final decisions will be made by July 17th and all vendors will be notified by July 20th. If you have questions regarding this RFP, please contact Stephen Wood at stephen.wood@tnc.org.[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator border_width=”2″][vc_custom_heading text=”Working Group 1 Project 1: Advanced Quantification Technology Assessment” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]PROJECT SUMMARY: This RFP seeks to engage one or multiple partners to identify, assess, test, and map the development of advanced tools and technologies that can more efficiently and cost effectively measure and quantify soil C changes and net GHG reductions to help ESMC generate carbon and GHG assets. The work will include in-field testing of promising innovative tools and technologies on ESMC pilot project sites.\u00a0View full RFP\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

UPDATE: Awards for this RFP have made. A team led by Repliculture, LLC with support from Regen Network Development, Inc. was awarded a contract for Phase 1 work. They will work collaboratively with the Phase 3 awardee, a team led by the Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC) with support from Alliance of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Science Societies (ACSESS). Phase 2 work has been postponed and the RFP may be reissued later this summer, so stay tuned![\/vc_column_text][vc_separator border_width=”2″][vc_custom_heading text=”Working Group 2 Project 1: Evaluation, improvement and scaling of water quality quantification approaches for water asset generation in ESMC\u2019s Integrated Protocol” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]PROJECT SUMMARY: This RFP seeks to engage one or multiple partners to design and implement testing and evaluation of the APEX water quality model and WQIAg tool approaches as part of ESMC\u2019s Integrated Protocol for water quality credit generation on pilot project sites. The work will cover ESMC\u2019s 2020 pilot regions to demonstrate viable water asset generation, discover needed modeling improvements or adaptations, recommend Protocol refinements, while identifying opportunities to support model calibration, validation, expansion and automation.\u00a0View full RFP\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

UPDATE: Awards for this RFP have made. A team led by Tetra Tech with support from Texas A&M Agrilife and Stone Environmental was awarded a contract for Modules 1 and 2. Module 3 work has been postponed and the RFP may be reissued at a later time, so stay tuned![\/vc_column_text][vc_separator border_width=”2″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]

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