SOLICITATION NOTICE
66 -- Wind Profiler Radar Installation National Weather Service
- Notice Date
- 5/7/2014
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 334519
— Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Western Acquisition Division-Boulder, 325 Broadway - MC3, Boulder, Colorado, 80305-3328, United States
- ZIP Code
- 80305-3328
- Solicitation Number
- NW957650-14-01198
- Archive Date
- 6/5/2014
- Point of Contact
- Mark Caban, Phone: 303-497-6875
- E-Mail Address
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mark.caban@noaa.gov
(mark.caban@noaa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are upgrading the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) Profiler Network. The NWS upgrade to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Profiler Network (NPN) http://www.profiler.noaa.gov/npn/ improved operations began in FY 2007. The current wind profilers are vertically-looking radars, deployed and operating continuously since 1992. These radars provide upper air wind data for a variety of analytical weather forecasting tasks. The NPN measured wind profile information improves NWS operational warning and watches performance capability and improves aviation safety. The NPN currently consists of 37 wind profilers. Five of these operate at a transmitter frequency of 449 MHz. The remaining 32 operate at an experimental frequency of 404 MHz and require a frequency change to 449 MHz for continued operation to prevent interference with the 406 MHz Search and Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking (SARSAT) transponders carried aboard the European Union's Galileo constellation of global positioning satellites. The 404MHz wind profiler operations will become severely reduced when Galileo SARSAT services become fully operational in the near future. Currently the NWS has 4 state-of-the art modern pulse Doppler 449 MHz radar systems, Detect Inc., RAPTOR model FBS-ST, in a storage area located at the National Logistics Support Center in Kansas City, MO. The NWS is interested in the installation, testing, validation, software & hardware maintenance as well as field maintenance of these four new radars. The NWS will require each system be inventoried at the NWS National Logistics Support Center in Kansas City, MO, packed and shipped and delivered to each of the four locations. Material list will be provided as part of the Request for Proposal. The four wind profilers will be installed: one at Wallops Island, VA; and the other three in Alaska- near Anchorage, Homer and Talkeetna. The Talkeetna site has an existing wind profiler, which requires removal prior to the installation of the new unit. The other three locations are new sites and require site surveys and site installation drawings. Samples of a site drawing will be provided as part of the Request for Proposal. The installation requirements include, but are not limited to: site preparation (leveling/drainage and vegetation removal, if needed), installation of supporting concrete piers, antenna frame and ground plane, antenna installation and associated RF and control cabling, installation of a perimeter fence with integrated grounding system, and applying a weed barrier under the antenna for weed control. The NWS will provide a reasonable level plot of land for the installations (typically an acre or less), with on-site access to standard commercial power and communications that will need to be interfaced with in the final configuration. Interested companies will need to have knowledge of the existing antenna phase shifters and divider enclosures as well as the most efficient process of installing these components. The actual antenna components are Yagi element arrays, each with their own phase-shifter. A physical shelter must be installed within the perimeter fence of the site. The government provided shelter will have heating and cooling capability, with easy access to the many computer and electrical components within. A state-of-art data processing and control system must be installed and maintained at each site. Interested companies must have technical knowledge and expertise to maintain and modify the existing systems and databases. Software upgrades and patches must be included at the time of installation. Following installation, routine field maintenance will be required, in addition to fault isolation and repair as needed, at each installation site. Maintenance manuals and Software documentation will be provided as part of the Request for Proposal. The Government anticipates awarding a fixed-price contract for this work. This procurement is a 100% small business set-aside. The NAICS code for this requirement is 334519 and the small-business size standard is 500 employees. All responsible and fully responsive sources may submit an offer which will be considered by the Agency. Any resulting contract will be awarded as a firm-fixed-price contract. Solicitation documents will be made available for download on or about May 21, 2014, at http://www.fedbizopps.gov/. Paper copies of this solicitation will not be issued. Interested parties should use the FedBizOpps [Add To Watchlist] and [Add Me To Interested Vendors] features which provide a notification when the RFP becomes available for download as well as all postings of information associated with this solicitation, thereafter. Each potential bidder is responsible for checking the FedBizOpps website to gain all current information related to the solicitation. The solicitation and any further announcements regarding the solicitation will be posted only at http://www.fedbizopps.gov/. The estimated response due date is June 5, 2014; however, the actual date offers are due will be stated within the solicitation documents. Any questions regarding this solicitation must be submitted in writing via e-mail to the Contract Specialist, Mark Caban at mark.caban@noaa.gov. All vendors doing business with the Government are required to be registered with at sam.gov https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM/##11.
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