SOLICITATION NOTICE
99 -- TOTAL LIGHTNING - CONUS
- Notice Date
- 1/7/2016
- Notice Type
- Justification and Approval (J&A)
- NAICS
- 519190
— All Other Information Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Eastern Region Acquisition Division, Norfolk Federal Building, 200 Granby Street, Norfolk, Virginia, 23510, United States
- ZIP Code
- 23510
- Archive Date
- 2/1/2016
- Point of Contact
- Jonathan Sayoc, Phone: 757-441-3824
- E-Mail Address
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Jonathan.Sayoc@noaa.gov
(Jonathan.Sayoc@noaa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Award Number
- DG-133W-12-CN-0072
- Award Date
- 7/13/2012
- Description
- The Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Weather Service (NWS), Office of Observation (OO) has a requirement for continuation of scientific meteorological data under the current Total Lightning (TL) contract until such time that competition for a follow-on Consolidated Lightning Data contract is completed and the follow-on contract begins. The solicitation for the follow-on contract is anticipated to be issued in April of 2016 and award is projected in May or June of 2016. NOAA intends to purchase the continuation of services through a six month extension to the current contract with Earth Networks, Inc. This will allow for the continuation of services and stability of services through the completion of the acquisition process for the follow-on Lightning Data contract. NOAA/NWS/OO has responsibility for the development, operations, and maintenance of national surface and upper air systems. The type of Lightning Data that will be required is Total Lighting (TL) data. TL is lightning data that includes cloud-to-ground, in-cloud, cloud-to-cloud, and cloud-to-air lightning for the Continental United States (CONUS) As the current Lightning Data contractor, Earth Networks Inc. is uniquely positioned to continue providing the Lightning Data required with the least disruption to delivering information that is critical for forecasters using the information for the forecasting and issuance of severe weather warnings, support to emergency managers, and support to fire weather managers. Earth Networks Inc. provides the most assurance of successful performance of the contract and best mitigates the risk of delays. Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform the effort in writing to Jonathan Sayoc, Contract Specialist, via email at Jonathan.Sayoc@noaa.gov not later than 12:00 p.m. local time on January 11, 2016. Standard brochures will not be considered a sufficient response to this notice. The North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code is 519190, All Other Information Services. The small business size standard for this NAICS code is $25.5 Million. Submitted Capability Statements shall include the following: (1) Company name and address (2) DUNS number (3) Type of business (e.g., large business, small business, 8(a), veteran-owned small business, service-disabled veteran owned small business, HUBZone small business, small disadvantaged business, and/or women owned small business) as validated via the System for Award Management (SAM) (4) Company point of contact – name, phone, and e-mail address (5) Demonstrate capabilities in providing the required types of TL data. Demonstrate capability to provide the required data seamlessly for the period from the end of the current contract in January 12, 2016 to the anticipated 60-day phase-in of the follow-on contract in June 2016. Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement in a competitive basis. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed effort on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice.
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