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NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS TO

PROVIDE A FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION SERVICE

FOR THE ISLAND OF MARTHA’S VINEYARD

CONTRACT NO. 10-2022

The Woods Hole, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority (the “SSA”) has issued a Request for Proposals (“RFP”) from responsible and eligible proponents who wish to be considered for a license agreement to provide a freight transportation service for the island of Martha’s Vineyard. Proposals will be accepted until 2:00 p.m. Eastern

Daylight Savings Time on Tuesday, August 2, 2022, at the SSA’s Procurement Of? ce, which is located on the second ? oor of the SSA’s Administrative Of? ces, 228 Palmer

Avenue, Falmouth, Massachusetts 02540.

The SSA has established this deadline for submitting proposals so that potential proponents will have suf? cient time to submit questions and suggestions regarding the

RFP after reviewing both the RFP and the documents referred to therein. The SSA asks that such questions and suggestions be submitted as soon as possible so that the SSA in turn has suf? cient time to respond to them well in advance of the deadline for submitting

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proposals.

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The SSA’s hope is that the successful proponent’s new freight service will become a and Marine Engineers long-term part of the marine transportation network providing the island of Martha’s

Vineyard with adequate transportation of persons and necessaries of life. Towards this end, although the SSA anticipates that most proponents will submit proposals to provide a conventional roll-on/roll-off ferry service to carry freight trucks and other vehicles between the mainland and the island of Martha’s Vineyard, the SSA encourages the submission of proposals to provide other methods of transporting freight to and from Martha’s Vineyard that might be more ef? cient, economical and/or ecofriendly than a conventional ferry service. If a proponent would like to submit such a proposal and is not certain whether its proposal would be considered responsive to the RFP or suitably evaluated under the evaluation criteria set forth in the RFP, the proponent should contact the SSA so that this

RFP can be appropriately revised well in advance of the due date for the submission of 100 Grossman Dr. Suite 205 proposals without prejudice to fair competition.

Braintree, MA 02184

In order to receive electronic versions of the RFP and all subsequent addenda issued by 4