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FBO DAILY - FEDBIZOPPS ISSUE OF APRIL 19, 2014 FBO #4529
SOURCES SOUGHT

D -- NOAA NWS Water Vapor Sensor Service

Notice Date

4/17/2014
 

Notice Type

Sources Sought
 

NAICS

518210 — Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services
 

Contracting Office

Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Eastern Region Acquisition Division, Norfolk Federal Building, 200 Granby Street, Norfolk, Virginia, 23510, United States
 

ZIP Code

23510
 

Solicitation Number

NOAA-NWS-RFI-WVSS
 

Archive Date

5/10/2014
 

Point of Contact

Jonathan Sayoc, Phone: 757-441-3824
 

E-Mail Address

Jonathan.Sayoc@noaa.gov
(Jonathan.Sayoc@noaa.gov)
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

The Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Acquisition and Grants Office (AGO), Eastern Acquisition Division (EAD) is seeking information from industry in order to improve the understanding of their capabilities to provide atmospheric observations from commercial aircraft leading to the improved understanding of the structure of the atmospheric water vapor, temperature, wind, and pressure as these data are critical to the prediction of thunderstorms, flash floods, hail, tornados, clouds, icing, and climate. The prediction of these phenomena is essential to protecting lives and property. Temperature, wind and moisture soundings from commercial aircraft are an important source of real-time information for global and regional weather prediction as well as operational forecasts and warnings from the National Weather Service (NWS). They also complement satellite sounding data with high quality and vertically high resolution in situ information. This Request for Information (RFI) is for planning purposes only and is issued in accordance with FAR Provision 52.215-3 Request for Information or Solicitation for Planning Purposes (OCT 1997) provided at: http://www.acquisition.gov/far/current/html/52_215.html#wp1144503. No solicitation document exists at this time. Issuance of this notice does not constitute any obligation on the part of the Government to procure these items or services or to issue a solicitation. In addition, the Government is under no obligation to pay for information submitted in response to this RFI, and responses to this notice cannot be accepted as offers. Any information that the vendor considers proprietary should be clearly marked as such. The anticipated NAICS code for this requirement is 518210 – Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services and the size standard is $30,000,000.00. The Government requests capability statements from interested sources that address the below requirements. Interested sources shall state their size status given the NAICS code herein. Capability statements shall clearly address the following requirements: a. Data type Primary meteorological observations are of temperature, wind, moisture, pressure, and location (latitude, longitude, geometrical height above the Earth’s surface and time). Capabilities to provide MDCRS observations of temperature and wind, but not of moisture are acceptable. Secondary meteorological observations are of turbulence and icing. b. Data quality: The Government requires high quality, low latency atmospheric measurements from in situ sensors on commercial aircraft. This data will support NOAA, FAA, and public missions. c. Data availability. The Government requires a capacity to effectively gather atmospheric measurements meeting time and space resolution as well as spatial coverage requirements. The Government’s end state goal is to have at least one atmospheric sounding every two hours from locations every 150 km and aircraft cruise data every 30 km once every 2 hours within the specified area of interest. d. Data interfaces: Firms should demonstrate their IT capabilities to monitor the collection and processing of the data. e. Technical Specifications Technical Specifications for observed and other reported quantities are given for meteorological observations in the AMDAR Onboard Software Functional Requirements Specification, Table 6, published by the World Meteorological Organization, Report No. 114, July 2013. These specifications are summarized below. f. Observation Accuracy i. Temperature – 0.5 Kelvin ii. Wind Direction and Speed– 5 degrees and 1.5 m/sec iii. Moisture – 5% (relative humidity) iv. Pressure – 3.0-4.0 hPa v. Location 1. Height -1% near Earth’s surface and 0.5% below 200 hPa 2. Meridional (North-South) position – 0.7 km 3. Longitudinal (East-West) position – 0.7 km 4. Time – 1 second g. Measurement units Observations must be reported in Standard Units as in the specification of observation accuracy. h. Data Format Observations must be transmitted in the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) International Binary Universal Form for the Representation of meteorological data (BUFR). i. Delivery and latency Delivery, including data latency, shall be negotiated with the NWS but will generally range between 2 (domestic, lower limit) and 30 (international, upper limit) minutes. j. Horizontal Domain Priority domains are as follows. i. International routes to the Caribbean, South America, Africa, Pacific Islands, Indonesia and other destinations that are not covered by current, operationally-received aircraft observations; ii. Domestic routes initiated within South America, Africa, Indonesia and other areas currently with few upper air observations; and iii. North and Central American domestic regional routes that are not covered by current, operationally-received aircraft data, including the western and north-central regions of the United States, Hawaii, Alaska, Guam, Mexico and Canada, including over-water routes serving these areas k. Vertical Domain The troposphere, including the jet level, typically 0- 12.5 km (40,000 ft) l. En-Route Data Observations along the flight track, at approximately the same flight level, are of secondary importance but desirable. The report frequency should meet WMO requirements. Observations spacing should be between 1-60 minutes frequency but most desirably at the WMO default of 7 minutes, corresponding to approximately 100 km spacing. m. Sounding Data High vertical resolution is important in the lower level of the atmosphere to detect indictors of severe weather. Vertical data collected during aircraft ascent and descent can provide atmospheric profiles or atmospheric soundings. Sounding data are highly desired, especially those with vertical density meeting WMO standards. Vertical sounding resolution on ascent should be every 5-10 hPa (3-20 sec) for the lowest 100 hPa and every 25-50 (20-60 sec) above. n. Data Restrictions Firms must affirm that the data will be made available without restrictions. All responsible sources may submit a capability statement that shall be considered by the agency. To be eligible, vendors must be registered with System for Award Management (SAM): https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM/##11 and obtain and DUNS number by calling 1-800-333-0505. Capability statements will be due on April 25, 2014 by 3:00pm. Capability statements will be accepted electronically at the following email address: Jonathan.Sayoc@noaa.gov
 

Web Link

FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOC/NOAA/EASC/NOAA-NWS-RFI-WVSS/listing.html)
 

Place of Performance

Address: 1325 East West Hwy, Silver Spring, Maryland, 20910, United States

Zip Code: 20910
 

Record

SN03341393-W 20140419/140417234844-9088e8a9b12fe6fa72aabd385d7003d2 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

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