SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Lightning Data Support Services
- Notice Date
- 2/3/2005
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Acquisition and Grants Office, SSMC4 - Room 7601/OFA61 1305 East West Highway, 7th Floor, Silver Spring, MD, 20910
- ZIP Code
- 20910
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-RFI-05-0001
- Response Due
- 2/28/2005
- Archive Date
- 3/14/2005
- Description
- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is investigating new methods and technologies for lightning data (LD) services and capabilities that will be utilized to support several Government agencies. The Government is conducting market research into state-of-the-art technologies to meet future Government LD requirements for CONUS/OCONUS coverage. For purposes of this RFI, OCONUS is defined as outside of the continental United States, including Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Caribbean. The Government is inviting all interested parties to submit a description of LD systems, sensors, and networks that provide data collection and products on cloud-to-ground and in-cloud (cloud-to-cloud and intra-cloud flashes/activity) lightning which could meet Government requirements. Interested parties are asked to provide ROM cost estimates, technical descriptions of their systems, sensors, and LD Networks, data and reporting formats, processing techniques and methods, facilities, and transitional processes/capabilities which may meet the needs of the Government. The technical descriptions should include supportive technical information, operational data, validated model runs with operational data or data sets, scenarios of detected lightning data activity during recorded or captured thunder storms that have been validated or verified, and any other supportive technical documentation that will enable the Government to evaluate the current state-of-the art. Technical information and data provided should substantiate and be supportive in verification of the interested parties? stated LD system/sensor/network capabilities and performance for lightning detection efficiency, location accuracy, and area coverage. Interested parties should provide a detailed explanation of their recommended approach to providing LD area coverage for regions with varying terrains, such as OCONUS and the Western Region of the U.S. Interested parties should also provide a detailed description of their projected data reporting formats and how they would be applied, implemented, and transmitted to various display platforms. For an example, ?How would detected lightning data (both cloud-to-ground or in-cloud) be detected, transmitted, processed, and reported to the NWS Gateway, and then processed, formatted, and transferred to the NWS All Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS)?. Interested parties should also provide other examples to demonstrate interfacing, transitional, and formatting capabilities to other display or processor platforms. Further, the description should identify required hardware, data structures/formats, and software required for the transmission, processing, and reporting of the Lightning Data by Government Agencies (such as, NOAA/NWS, FAA, BLM, NASA, DOD, and other Government agencies). In summary, interested parties should address the following areas and capabilities: 1) LD delivery methods, data transmission, and reporting capabilities 2) Transitional capabilities, requirements, hardware, software, training and associated costs 3) Interested parties LD Network and area coverage capabilities, describing/including: - the network that presently exists - number and location of network sensor sites - network area coverage and validated detection efficiency and location accuracy - other area, country and coastal coverage (i.e. Canada, Mexico, Caribbean, Alaska, Hawaii) - and future plans for expanding network area coverage. 4) Long-range lightning detection capabilities, which would cover Atlantic, Pacific, and Caribbean oceanic areas 5) Hardware and software commercial products. Any information considered to be proprietary should be marked as such and will be considered confidential. However, it is not the Government=s intent to disclose vendor proprietary information and trade secrets to the public. The information submitted by vendors during the pre-solicitation period maybe used by the Government in preparing its RFP and finalizing the statement of work, provided this can be done without disclosing proprietary vendor information that is protected from disclosure pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act and other laws and regulations. If there is sufficient interest generated from this Request for Information, the Government contemplates conducting an Industry Day Conference. This is not a solicitation announcement and no contract will be awarded pursuant to this synopsis. Furthermore, the Government will not pay for information received in response to this synopsis. Responses are due 28 February 2005. Responses should provide a point of contact, including representative=s name, e-mail address, mailing address and phone number. Questions and responses shall be sent via e-mail in Microsoft Word format to: Jenista.M.Featherstone@noaa.gov or Anita.R.Middleton@noaa.gov.
- Record
- SN00745002-W 20050205/050203211742 (fbodaily.com)
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