SOLICITATION NOTICE
58 -- Wind Profilers
- Notice Date
- 10/16/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 334511
— Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing
- 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, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- DG133W-07-RP-0005
- Response Due
- 2/2/2007
- Archive Date
- 6/30/2007
- Description
- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Weather Service (NWS) is upgrading the NOAA Profiler Network (NPN) for improved operations. The existing wind profilers are vertical looking radars, the deployment of which commenced in approximately 1990. The existing wind profilers operate continuously and provide upper air wind data which the NWS uses in a variety of ways. In upgrading the NPN, the NWS expects to improve the resolution of wind phenomena in time and space (horizontal and vertical) and accuracy; enhance end-to-end observing system availability, access, archive, quality assurance, and timeliness monitoring; and to make use of the real-time wind profiles as an integrating sensor for a seamless system of systems. Solicitation DG133W-07-RP-0005 will be issued on or about November 3, 2006 and will close on or about February 2, 2007. This solicitation will encompass a development phase culminating in the delivery, installation, and testing of a first article wind profiler, followed by a production phase involving delivery and installation of up to 54 wind profilers. [It is expected that all installations will take place within the United States.] Additionally, the production phase will provide for initial sparing and initial maintenance of the wind profilers (until the wind profilers are transitioned to Government maintenance). Both the development and production phases will include provisions for associated services, such as training, and associated supplies, including documentation. The solicitation will allow for either the upgrade of the existing wind profilers or the replacement of the existing wind profilers. The solicitation will be structured to allow for up to two awards for the development phase, with a down-select to one contractor for the production phase; however, the Government will not be obliged to make two awards for the development phase. The Government expects that completion of the work called for by the solicitation will take place within five years after award. All responsible sources may respond to Solicitation DG133W-07-RP-0005 by submitting a proposal which shall be considered by NOAA. See Notes 12 and 26.
- Record
- SN01165807-W 20061018/061016220136 (fbodaily.com)
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