R -- ENGINEERING ANDMISSION OPERATIONS SUPPORT SERVICES FOR NOAA/NESDIS METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE OPERATIONS

Notice Date

December 27, 2001

Contracting Office

Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), AG/Acquisition Management Division, SSMC4 -- Room 7601/OFA61 1305 East West Highway, 7th Floor, Silver Spring, MD, 20910

ZIP Code

20910

Solicitation Number

Reference-Number-50-DGNE-0-90069

Response Due

January 11, 2002

Point of Contact

Richard Bennett, Director, NESDIS Business Management Division, Phone 301-713-3478, Fax 301-713-4155, Email dick.bennett@noaa.gov -- Richard Bennett, Director, NESDIS Business Management Division, Phone 301-713-3478, Fax 301-713-4155, Email dick.bennett@noaa.gov

Description

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) intends to negotiate on a sole source basis and issue a modification to the existing contract (No. 50-DGNE-0-90069) with Honeywell Technologies Solutions (Honeywell) to extend the Period of Performance for item 3000 of the contract, Product Monitoring, an additional three (3) months (01/05/2002 through 04/04/2002), plus six (6) additional one-month options to be exercised if, and, as needed. This contract is in its second year option period and provides engineering analysis and navigation support services for the NOAA Office of Satellite Operations. The National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Services (NESDIS) operates all of the United States civil meteorological satellites from the Satellite Operations Control Center (SOCC), located in Suitland, Maryland. The civil meteorological constellations consist of the Geostationary Orbiting Environmental (GOES) and Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites (POES) Spacecraft. The GOES satellite programs provides continuous, dependable, timely, high-quality observations of the Western Hemisphere and geosynchronous space environment. The POES Satellites are in polar, sun-synchronous orbits and provide operational coverage of the entire Earth four times each day. The data gathered from these satellites allows our country's weather and emergency agencies to monitor global climate change, verify ozone depletion and land surface change, monitor the critical space environmental parameters, and support search and rescue efforts across the globe. This contract extension is necessary to provide manual product monitor support prior to the acceptance of the automated Rehosted Product Monitor which is nearing completion of development and testing. Any prospective offeror must demonstrate a cost and technical benefit to the Government in view of the short period of performance. Interested sources must also submit a written narrative of capability, including detailed technical information and other technical literature, demonstrating the ability to provide the required services in sufficient to permit an agency analysis to determine a bona-fide capability to meet the Government's requirements, within 15 days of publication of this notice. Responses without the required documentation shall be considered non-responsive. Telephonic responses shall not be accepted.

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Record

Loren Data Corp. 20011231/RSOL005.HTM (D-361 SN5160N0)