US Department of Commerce/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), PGAS, Procurement Operations Division, 1325 East West Highway, Station 4301, Silver Spring, MD 20910-3283

70 -- SEAS SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT SOL 52-DDNC-5-00017 POC Rubie B. King, Contract Specialist;Norbert F. Szymanski Jr. Contracting Officer (301) 713-0839 The U.S. Department of Commerce/NOAA/NOS intends to negotiate on a sole-source basis with Compass Systems, Inc. for software maintenance services and technical support of the Shipboard Environmental Acquisition System (SEAS) software. The SEAS software interfaces with Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES), INMARSAT transceivers, Sippican Analog to Digital converters and various Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers. It also uses VLIB and the Halo Graphics package. The Contractor shall provide processing support for NOAA's shipboard, transmission and reformatting tasks. The SEAS software was developed to assist NOS in it's mission to plan, collect, process and exchange oceanographic data in real-time and delayed mode. Services include the development of new analog to digital converters, compression and decompression of data, development of software for autolaunchers for XBT's and the use of Binary Universal Format for reporting (BUFR) for data exchange. The base period of performance is twelve (12), months with four (4), twelve (12), month option periods. All interested and responsible sources shall respond by submitting a written narrative statement of capability, including detailed technical information and other technical literature demonstrating the ability to meet the above requirements. Potential Offeror's must provide at least three (3) technical references regarding its experience with providing the software and technical support. Pricing data including GSA Schedule if applicable should be included. The response must be sufficient to permit agency analysis to establish a bona fide capability to meet the requirement. Telephonic or Fax responses shall not be accepted. Failure to submit documentation will result in the Government proceeding as noted above. Please refer to Solicitation No. 52-DDNC-5-00017 in your response. SEE Note 22 (0086)

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