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D -- MOSAIC RADAR WEATHER DATA SERVICES SOL DTRS57-99-R-00017 DUE 083099 POC Point of Contact -- Donna Brickley, Contracting Officer, (617) 494-3661 WEB: Volpe Center Acquisition Division home page, http://www.volpe.dot.gov/procure/index.html. E-MAIL: Contracting Officer, brickley@volpe.dot.gov. This synopsis is a modification to a previous synopsis posted on August 2, 1999 please replace the description with the following: The Volpe National Transportation Systems Center intends to negotiate on a non-competitive basis with WSI Corporation for continuous 24-hour access to the weather data required by the Federal Aviation Administration?s Enhanced Traffic Management System (ETMS), including but not limited to, NOWRAD and NOWRAD PLUS database, lightning data, Alphanumeric text data, High Resolution Gridded Model Data, Echo Tops, STORMcast data, and by contract option, Canadian Radar Mosaics. With the exception of lightning data, the contractor shall provide the distribution licenses of the data. A major component of ETMS is its weather overlay functions and background processing f unctions that requires access to operational weather data. The ETMS Aviation Weather Network (AWN) has been evolved over the years to receive, ingest and process weather data. All the data must be compatible with the existing ETMS AWN programs. The results of the sources sought synopsis which was published on April 14, 1999, supports the Government?s decision that WSI corporation is the only known source that has the ability to provide the requisite services meeting the following Government?s requirements. The mosaic radar data shall be of a minimum of 2km spatial resolution from all available National Weather Service (NWS) radar sites. The data shall contain 16 levels of radar reflectivity intensity. The data must be quality controlled prior to delivery to ETMS. A high-resolution ( NOWRAD PLUS) product shall be available every 5 minutes with automated quality control algorithms. A medium-resolution (NOWRAD) product shall be available every 15 minutes with manual quality control. Lightning data shall contain time, location, polarity and amplitude of flashes and shall be from a continuous data feed. The data shall be accurate to within 10km or less over the contiguous 48 states and shall be provided on the national scale. Echo tops shall contain the highest detected echoes above a given location. The data shall be of 4km spatial resolution and is updated every 10 minutes and shall be provided on the national scale. STORMcast provides the current position, speed and direction of storms from all NWS radar sites and shall be provided on the national scale. The data is updated every 5 minutes. All the required weather data shall be provided to the ETMS over a land-based communication circuit of at least 256KBPS circuit and 1 Mbytes per second satellite network. All the data must be compatible with the existing ETMS AWN programs. The data must be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The data shall be available for redistribution to other ETMS remote sites. The Government shall acquire the data and the necessary distribution licenses with the exception for lightning data, for a period of one-year and one, one-year, option. This synopsis is for informational purposes only. For Minority, Women-Owned and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises: The Department of Transportation (DOT), Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU), h as programs to assist minority, women-owned and disadvantaged business enterprises to acquire short-term working capital and bonding assistance for transportation-related contracts. This is applicable to any eligible prime or subcontract at any tier. The DOT Bonding Assistance Program enables firms to apply for bid, performance and payment bonds up to $l.0 million per contract. The DOT provides 80% guaranty on the bond amount to a surety against losses. Loans are also available under the DOT Short Term Lending Program (STLP) at prime interest rates to provide accounts receivable financing. The Maximum line of credit is $500,000. For further information and applicable forms concerning Bonding Assistance Program and/or the STLP, please call the OSBDU at (800) 532-1169. For information concerning the acquisition, contact the contracting official listed above. Posted 08/03/99 (D-SN362115). (0215)

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