MODIFICATION
99 -- NOAA/NESDIS Commercial Weather Data Pilot
- Notice Date
- 7/28/2016
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- NAICS
- 518210
— Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Western Acquisition Division - Seattle, 7600 Sand Point Way, Northeast, Seattle, Washington, 98115-6349, United States
- ZIP Code
- 98115-6349
- Solicitation Number
- AB-133E-16-RQ-0581
- Archive Date
- 12/31/2016
- Point of Contact
- Sarah Waugh, Phone: 206-526-6544
- E-Mail Address
-
sarah.waugh@noaa.gov
(sarah.waugh@noaa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Partial Small Business
- Description
- This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in Subpart 12.6, in conjunction with the Commercial Item Test Program in Subpart 13.5, and supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. The solicitation number for this procurement is AB-133E-16-RQ-0581 and is hereby issued as a request for quotation (RFQ). Questions shall be submitted to sarah.waugh@noaa.gov no later than 12:00 PM Pacific Time on Tuesday, August 2, 2016. Quotes shall be submitted to sarah.waugh@noaa.gov no later than 5:00 PM Pacific Time on Friday, August 12, 2016 Background: The Explanatory Statement accompanying the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016 (P.L. 114-113) included the following language: Commercial Weather Data Pilot. - NOAA shall, through an open competitive process, seek to enter into at least one pilot contract to assess the potential viability of commercial weather data in its weather modeling and forecasting. This funding shall be used to purchase, evaluate, and calibrate available data, which meets the standards and specifications set by NOAA in its Commercial Data Policy. In order to respond to an ever-growing demand for environmental information, NOAA continually strives for an observing enterprise that is flexible, responsive to evolving technologies and economically sustainable, while supporting and upholding the international data sharing commitments upon which NOAA depends for global data. NOAA is interested in commercially provided Earth observing data that satisfy NOAA observational requirements at a lower cost than government-provided alternatives. The NOAA Commercial Space Policy calls for NOAA to explore and, where appropriate, pursue demonstration projects to validate the viability of assimilating commercially provided environmental data and data products into NOAA meteorological models and add value to the forecast. Data demonstration and validation will precede operational procurement of commercial data by NOAA. The Commercial Weather Data Pilot will serve as one such demonstration project, and will seek to procure and evaluate commercial data for the purpose of assessing the quality of the data and its impact to weather forecast models. The data from this pilot program will be used for evaluation purposes only and will not be used operationally in NOAA's products and services. In addition, the pilot program evaluation is separate and independent from ongoing NESDIS activities. Participation in the initial phase will not influence eligibility in potential future pilot program activities. Scope: NOAA will seek to purchase three to six months of on-orbit radio occultation (RO) data and associated metadata for the purpose of technical assessment and assimilation into numerical weather prediction models to determine the operational viability of these data. This data will not be used operationally by NOAA. Additional information and requirements are included in the attached RFQ.
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