Life Cycle Modeling Project | BOR MP18 N025

Opportunity Information: Apply for BOR MP18 N025

The Life Cycle Modeling Project is a Bureau of Reclamation discretionary funding opportunity being carried out through a cooperative agreement under CFDA 15.512 (Central Valley Project Improvement Act). The agency’s stated intent is to make this award specifically to the University of California, Santa Cruz, under the authority of Public Law 102-575, with work tied to Sections 3406(b)(1) and 3407(e). Because it is a notice of intent rather than an open solicitation, it is not a competitive call for proposals and is not seeking applications from the broader public. The eligible applicant category listed is public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, but in practice the funding is directed to UC Santa Cruz as the named recipient.

The planned agreement has an estimated total value of $2,776,406, with Reclamation providing $1,000,000 in Fiscal Year 2018 as part of that total. The opportunity is categorized under an information and statistics activity area, reflecting that the core deliverables are modeling workflows, model outputs, and evaluation of scenario results rather than construction or on-the-ground implementation.

The project’s purpose is to build and test a structured, scenario-based modeling chain that links water operations and restoration actions to ecological and life-cycle outcomes. First, the team will develop a set of operational and restoration actions and package them into a coherent scenario. Second, those operations will be translated into rule sets that can be implemented and simulated within CALSIM, a planning model commonly used to represent and evaluate water system operations in California. Third, the project will generate outputs from DSM2 and from a temperature modeling component, with those results prepared specifically for integration into the WRLCM framework.

After those model components are assembled, the project will run the WRLCM, including the ePTM (a particle-tracking modeling element used to represent movement pathways and survival-relevant exposure in the system). The final objective is evaluative: the project will review and interpret WRLCM outputs to determine whether the modeled operational and restoration actions produced the intended effects, effectively closing the loop between scenario design, model implementation, integrated simulation, and results assessment.

Administrative details provided in the source include the funding opportunity number (BOR MP18 N025), the original closing date listed as 2018-08-13, and an award ceiling matching the estimated total agreement amount of $2,776,406. For official questions about the announcement, the notice directs inquiries to Thelma Mosley, Grants Management Specialist, at tmosley@usbr.gov.

• The Bureau of Reclamation in the information and statistics sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Life Cycle Modeling Project" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.512.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2018-08-03.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2018-08-13. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $2,776,406.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education.

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