Captive Feeding and Analysis Of Steller Sea Lions

Solicitation number F5211-190534

Publication date

Closing date and time 2019/12/04 13:00 EST

Last amendment date

Description

Fisheries and Oceans Canada has a requirement to conduct a captive feeding experiment on Steller sea lions. This is to test and provide validation of the genetic analysis of scats to determine pinniped diets; a technique currently employed by DFO in field-studies.

Specifically:

  • Generate a statistically robust, known-diet sample by collecting Steller sea lion scats from a captive animal feeding trial. The study will vary the proportion of 5 representative pinniped prey species from the NE Pacific to create 8 diet scenarios and be subdivided into 4 feeding trials.

  • Quantify the inherent (uncorrected) bias in using primary metabarcoding data to estimate relative prey intake from sea lion scat.

  • Establish a genetic correction factor (GCF) for each prey item. Also, test the effect of diet proportion and prey proximate composition on GCFs to potentially establish a set of generic proportional genetic correction factors (pGCF) for a broader range of prey items and diet profiles.

Contract duration

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Trade agreements

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Contact information

Contracting organization

Organization
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Address
200 Kent St, Station 13E228
Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0E6
Canada
Contracting authority
Bowie, Robert
Phone
506-478-4138
Email
DFOtenders-soumissionsMPO@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Address
301 Bishop Drive
Fredericton, NB, E3C 2M9
CA

Buying organization(s)

Organization
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Address
200 Kent St, Station 13E228
Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0E6
Canada
Bidding details

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Tender documents
Document title Amendment no. Language Unique downloads Date added
f5211-190534_dfo_acan_en.pdf 000
English
 12
f5211-190534_mpo_pac_fr.pdf 000
French
 2

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Summary information

Notice type
Advance Contract Award Notice
Language(s)
English, French
Region(s) of delivery
British Columbia
Region of opportunity
Canada
Procurement method
Competitive – Open Bidding
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