U -- Provide Educational Services

This special notice is being issued notifying all interested parties that the Government is awarding a sole source contract to the Naval Undersea Museum Foundation for supporting school districts in their quest for improved student achievement, continue developing an integrated curriculum that links science content to museum assets and shipboard experiences, and further student awareness and appreciation of the Puget Sound ecosystem and the need to value and protect it. The school district service region runs from Seattle/Tacoma’s west Puget Sound, across Hood Canal, through the Kitsap and Olympic Peninsulas and Along the northern Pacific coastline. The services will include providing museum/boat instructors, classroom/boat equipment, science kits, school bus transportation/vessel charters, and other incidental services. This action is congressionally mandated as a part of the 2005 DoD Appropriations Act.