Solicitation
Process
The Great Ships
Initiative (GSI) offers independent research services at the
bench, land- and ship-board scales to developers of ballast
water treatment systems designed to minimize the presence of
live organisms, including microbes and viruses, in ballast water
discharge from ships.
Click here
to go to the GSI's solicitation webpage.
Research
Services
The
GSI offers research services to incubate/evaluate prospective
treatment systems in terms of operational and biological performance
through three scales of testing: bench,
land-based, and shipboard (facilities).
Each scale is dedicated to addressing specific evaluation
objectives, with protocols
as consistent with IMO and federal requirements as practicable.
Relationship
to Treatment Approval Processes
The GSI seeks
to maximize relevancy of its research output to regulatory processes
nationally and internationally. Accordingly, the land-based
research services offer information consistent with IMO guidelines
and standards. Though domestically, regulations and standards
are not yet in place, the GSI plans also to strive toward a
direct role in providing information in support of domestic
treatment approval for regulatory agencies as one of its research
services. Meanwhile, the GSI will help ready treatment systems
for successful vetting by official channels once they are established.
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