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

R -- SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT SERVICES SOL 52-DGNW-6-00001 POC Robert R. Curtis, Contract Specialist or John O. Thompson, Contracting Officer, (301) 713-0823 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) intends to award a contract for Systems Engineering and Technical Support Services (SETSS) in support of the National Weather Service (NWS) Modernization and Associated Restructuring (MAR) Program. This effort is currently being provided under NOAA Contract Number 50-DGNW-2-00054. The NWS MAR programs supported by this contract are: National Implementation Staff (NIS), formerly called the Transition Program Office (TPO); Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS); Modernization Systems Management (MSM); Office of Systems Operations (OSO); and Office of Systems Development (OSD). Support regarding the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) Acquisition Office is no longer part of this contract, except perhaps in a nonseverable residual manner, and is currently being reprocurred under separate effort by the NOAA Systems Acquisition Office (SAO), Solicitation Number 52-SPNA-5-00037. The types of SETSS work to be performed by the NWS MAR Program will include: (1) Automated weather observation systems, (2) Weather forecast information systems, (3) Complex communications necessary for transmission of extensive national guidance products and meteorological and hydrological data from satellite, radar, or collection centers to the various forecast offices across the nation and, (4) Restructuring of NWS field operations and facilities. The resultant contract will be awarded for one base year, with options to extend performance by four one-year option periods. Total estimated labor hours for this ocntract, including all anticipated option periods, is 872,712 hours. The solicitation is planned for release on or about December 1, 1995. Offerors wishing to pick-up this solicitation at the above cited address should fax their intent to do so to (301) 713-0806. A Pre-Proposal Conference is scheduled at NOAA Headquarters, 1301 East-West Highway, Auditorium (located behind the wave pool) on December 19, 1995 at 10:00 a.m. For those parties which hav already contacted this office in response to the CBD Advanced Notifications placed on February 3, 1995 or May 17, 1995 and requested to be placed on the Solicitation Mailing List, no further action will be required from your organization to receive this solicitation by mail. For those parties who seek to be placed on the mailing list for receipt of the solicitation, please submit your written request by the above cited fax number or to the identified address. (0318)

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