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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF NOVEMBER 19,1998 PSA#2225USDA Forest Service, Southwestern Regional Office, 517 Gold Avenue SW,
Albuquerque, NM 87102 S -- UTILITIES AND HOUSEKEEPING SERVICES SOL 265906 DUE 112498 POC
Wilford Romero, Contracting Officer, 505-842-3342, wromero/r3@fs.fed.us
E-MAIL: w/romero/r3@fs.fed.us, wromero/r3@fs.fed.us. THIS IS MODIFIED
TO CHANGE THE OFFER DATE TO NOVEMBER 21, 1998. Forest Service intends
to negotiate a contract with Weatherbank, Inc. to provide monthly
weather service to 12 locations within the Southwestern Region, which
includes Arizona and New Mexico. The service must deliver a continuous
feed of the most current weather data to an IBM compatible, DOS based
personal computer. The data must include all NOAA National Weather
Service Family of Services feeds(NAA 604,NOAA Weatheeer Wire, Domestic
Data, International Circuit) hurricane and tracking projection
graphics, doppler radar displays, real-time and hour-old through
23-hour old lightning real-time and hour -ol stike data and GOES 8 and
GOES 9 satellite pictures the requirements of the service are: 1)A
continous, KU-band satellite delivered feed of 9600 baud or
faster,2)One combined data feed including text and graphic data, 3)Text
data to be value-added text, in ASCII format,4)Color graphic data to be
VGA in regional maps all state maps, and/or custom(user defined) base
maps; containing overlays on interstates and roads, count lines, lakes,
rivers, streams and resovoirs; updated every fifteen minutes; system
storage for up to the pas 23-hours; user defined looping or animation
desplays or any time frame, 6)Color coded lightning displays (positive
and negative polarity) on national, six(6)regional maps, all state
maps, and/or custom (user defined)base maps; containing overlays of
interstates, roads, county lines, lakes, resoviors; updated in
real-time;system storage for up to the pas 23-hours;user defined
looping or animation displays of anytime frame, 7)GOES 8 and GOES 9
color satellite desplays (IR) on three perspectives (westeern, USA
(coast-to-coast),and eastern);updated hourly;system storage for up to
the pas 23-hours;user defined looping or animated displays of any time
fram,8)Contractor provided and maintained satellite earth station,10)
System software and user defined for automatically saving each/all
products to disk, automatically refreshing product to view upon
arrival, automatically printing products, and automatically sounding
audible alarm upon product arrival,11)System software for automatically
detecting when any NWS product (forecast, weather watch or warning,
etc.) has expired and provides the user for deleting or retaining
expired product,12)Hurricane tracking with projected path in
multi-colored desplays, update automatically in rel-time. Projected
paths to also include projected areas containg 35,50 and 75 + knot
winds. All tracking and projection displays to be available on global,
oceanic, USA, USA regional, sate and user defined maps,13)ISOGRAPHIC
surface and upper air analysis and projection graphics include all NWS
products, such as MFR 10-day, Eropean, NGM, ETA,AVN, etc. models. All
displays must have user defined and changeable color
patterns,14)System containing an available product data base of more
than 29,000 weather lines,15)System software for selecting for "daisy
chaining" system for product storage of mre than 300 products,
permitting unlimited storage,17)All systems software
documentation,18)Installation of all system components,19)Training of
all system components,20)24-hour per day, every day customer
service,21)A.M. and P.M. fire weather forecast,22)METAFIRE weather
forecast,23)Fire weather red flag warnings and watches,24)Haynes
Index,25)Ventilation data,26)May require a Fire Weather Forecaster
on-site during critical fire weather activity on an as needed daily
basis (24 hour availablity). The provisions in FAR 52.212.1
Instructions to Offerors -- Commercial, 52.212.4 Contract Terms and
Conditions, Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. The clause
52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions required to implement Statutes
or Executive Order -- Commercial items, applies to this acquisition as
well as the flllowing clauses cited in the clause aare applicable to
the acquisition; 52.222-36 Affirmative Action for Handicapped Workers
(29 U.S.c. 793).,52.222-37,Employment Reports on Special Disabled
Veternans and Veterans of the Vietnam Era (38 U.S.C. 4212). We
anticipate a one year contract with an option to renew, beginning
February 1999. Any award will be contingent upon Technical approval,
Any responses to this synopsis/request for quotations should be sent to
Contracing Officer, USDA Forest Service, 517 Gold Ave. SW, Albuquerque,
New Mexico 87102 and reference the quotation number. For information
contact Wilford Romero, 505-842-3342 at the above address. Vendors
wishing to respond should provide the following: A price on
company/firm's letterhead showing unit price, monthly service fee
including all applicable taxes, prompt payment terms and remittance
address and completed FAR Clause 52.212-3 Offer, Representations and
Certifications, Commercial Items. Offers must be in writing and
accompanied by the completed Representations and Certifications.
Fascimile and telegrapic or oral offers will not be accepted. Offers
are due NLT 1630 hours on NOVEMBER 21, 1998. (l-009 SN018819)
[USDA],[FOREST SERVICE],[517 GOLD]Avenue,S.W.,Albuquerque,NM[87102]
CITE: (W-300 SN265781) Posted 11/17/98 (W-SN272106). (0321) Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0101 19981119\S-0001.SOL)
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