Friday Reprieve #18

Solicitation Number:
GS-08P-10-JA-P-0011
Notice Type:
Special Notice
Synopsis:
Added: Dec 14, 2009 5:43 pm Modified: Jan 11, 2010 5:08 pmTrack Changes

RECOVERY - It is the intent of the General Services Administration (GSA), Public Buildings Service (PBS) to negotiate on a sole source basis with Roe Ecological Services, LLC under the authority of FAR 6.302. This proposed acquisition will provide for the humane removal of prairie dogs from Land Area 6 of the Denver Federal Center.

Live trap prairie dogs and promptly euthanize the same day.

• Prairie dogs must be euthanized humanely. The contractor may not use vacuum, flushing, foaming, or any other method to extract prairie dogs which causes undue emotional duress and/or physical damage (internally or externally).
• Euthanized prairie dogs must be transported off site and delivered to the Colorado Raptor Program in Fort Collins, CO, where they will be used as food for captive raptors being rehabilitated.
• Contractors shall be certified as an acceptable prairie dog donor by the Colorado Raptor Program prior to the closing of this special notice. A written acceptance from the Colorado Raptor Program must be included with the capabilities and qualifications statement as noted below.
• Prairie dogs must be euthanized in a manner that ensures non-target wildlife will not be euthanized and/or harmed.

What made this particularly funny was that when this was going through our office, someone misread 'raptor' for 'velociraptor'. The next logical assumption made within the office was that the government was using stimulus money to create a velociraptor farm in Colorado which was eventually going to bring about the same demise as Jurassic Park. Fortunately, the misreading was corrected and the world is again safe from rogue velociraptors.