NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 289, Greenbelt, MD 20771

A -- MESOSCALE ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH SUPPORT SOL RFP5-19556/256 DUE 040595 POC Cynthia A. Dean, Contracting Officer, (301) 286-9259. This is a notice of intent to issue Request for Proposal (RFP)5-19556/256, on or about February 22, 1995, on a competitive basis. The contractor shall support basic and applied research activities in such areas as: 1) using space, aircraft and ground-based observations, numerical modeling and case studies to improve understanding, diagnosis, and prediction of atmospheric processes, with particular emphasis upon cloud precipitation systems, their structure, initiation and evolution, as well as their impact on atmospheric radiation budgets and the hydrologic cycle; 2) assisting in the development, testing and use of ground-based and aircraft remote sensing instrumentation; 3) developing algorithms and analysis techniques using data from satellites, and ground and aircraft remote sensors in combination with other sources of data; 4) developing and adapting mesoscale and cloud-scale numerical models to simulate cloud and precipitation systems, and other atmospheric phenomena; 5) determining the impact of remotely sensed measurements on analysis and prediction of atmospheric circulations and attendant cloud and precipitation systems associated with cyclonic storms and convective systems; 6) developing algorithms for microwave and infrared sensing of precipitation from space using cloud models together with aircraft and other data; 7) studying the physical processes of the ocean-atmosphere, land atmosphere, and troposphere-stratosphere interactions associated with storm and precipitation systems; 8) developing techniques to display, manipulate and analyze remote sensing, conventional and model-generated data sets; and 9) formulating requirements for future space observation of atmospheric systems. It is anticipated that this will be a Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee (CPFF) Level-of-Effort (LOE) with a one-year basic period and one four-year option period. The total target on-site and off-site five-year level of effort is 409,623 (+/- 5%) direct labor hours. This solicitation is issued as a 100 percent set-aside for small business. The small business size standard for this effort is 500 employees. The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code is 8731. The Mesoscale Bidder's Library will be available, by appointment only, upon release of the RFP. Call Ms. Cynthia Dean at (301) 286-9259 for an appointment. This library will contain the same information which is currently available through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). This information includes: the current contract and modifications with Clause B.3, Limitation of Indirect Costs, redacted as propriety under FOIA; the Source Selection Statement, task assignments, quarterly progress reports, and published articles. Information not available in the solicitation library nor FOIA is the technical proposal for which NASA does not have data rights. Any firms interested in receiving RFP5-19556/256, should send their request in writing to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 289, Attn: Ms. Cynthia Dean, Greenbelt, MD 20771, or send your request through INTERNET to: cindy.dean@ccmail.gsfc.nasa.gov. Those firms who submitted a request for draft RFP5-19556/256 are automatically on the mailing list for the final RFP and need not submit a request. See Note(s): 1. (0034)

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