IO-BAS Activities within NATO Project SfP 982678

• The preliminary selection of possible vendors was performed in the end of November 2009.

• The invitations for participation to the competitive bidding were sent in the beginning of December.

• In the end of December 2009 the selection phase was completed and the first ranking vendor (Satlantic Inc, Canada) was chosen.

I. Procurement of equipment

Competitive bidding procedure was performed following the NATO rules for purchases valued at 12 500 EUR or more .

Equipment Manufacturer Model Number Cost (EUR)

7 channel free fall optical profiler Satlantic MPRO II 27 725.4

In water profiling package reference sensor multispectral Irradiance cosine Air (Es) sensor

SatlanticMicro II Ref 7

Channel6 226.9

7 channel Irradiance cosine water (Ed,

Eu) sensorSatlantic OCR-507I 5 913.00

Combination chlorophyll fluorometer and 2 channel backscattering

Wet labs Triplet puck 7 219.7

Advanced pich/roll compensated compass/ magnetometer system

Satlantic SAT-THS 2 847.00

SunphotometerSolar Light

Company Inc.Model 540

Microtops II7 628.5

GPS Trimble Geo XT 9 022.8

•The equipment was successfully delivered to IO-BAS in January 2011

II. Project WEB SiteProject Web site: www.natosps.io-bas.bg has been created following the NATO existing recommendations.

Offer and tendering documents were prepared and submitted in reply to an invitation to tender: IES/H/2011/01/01/NC “OCEANOGRAPHIC CRUISE IN THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL BLACK SEA” sent by JRC, EC.

III. Participation in the tender procedure issued by JRC

IV. R/V AKADEMIK bio-optical cruses• EUROFLEETS BIO OPT r/v Akademik cruse was carried outfrom 09-12 June 2011

24 measurements stations

• JRC/IOBAS BioMAP cruse on board the r/v Akademik was carried out from 13 to 22 July 2011

60 measurement stations

IV. IO-BAS scientists participating in the bio-optical cruses

• Violeta Slabakova- Apparent Optical Properties • Yavor Vekov- Apparent Optical Prop & Sunphotometry • Elitza Stefanova - Water Sampling & SD• Natalia Slabakova - Water Sampling

V. Progress report preparation

1. April Progress Report, 2010

2. April Progress Report, 2011

3. October Progress Report, 2011