US Department of Commerce/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), PGAS, Procurement Operations Division (OA312:TA), 1325 East West Highway, Station 4301, Silver Spring, MD 20910-3283

A -- OCEAN BOUY DISDROMETER DEVELOPMENT SOL 52-DGNE-6-90064 POC Teresa Artis the Contract Specialist at (301) 713-0823, or by fax at (301) 713-0806, or Greg Smith, the Contracting Officer. NOAA intends to solicit and negotiate a contract on a noncompetitive basis to The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL), Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, MD 20723. This procurement will provide for the development of a disdrometer system to measure rain rate and drop size distributions when deployed on a moored, deep-water oceanographic data buoy for one year of unattended operation. The system will utilize an existing disdrometer sensor previously developed by JHU/APL for use in marine environments, coupled with a low power digital processor module using multiprocessors interfaced to the analog electronics. JHU/APL is the designer of the existing disdrometer sensor and, as such, possesses unique capabilities vital to the execution of the effort required by this procurement, including the calibration and testing facilities needed to evaluate the performance of this prototype system. Detailed documentation of the sensor design is not available for issuance to other contractors. This procurement is for the period 4/1/96 to 8/30/96. Interested firms must express their interest in writing and demonstrate their capability to respond to the requirement. Responses must be received in NOAA's Procurement Operations Division within 45 days from the date of publication of the announcement. See Note 22. (0038)

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