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

D -- GARS--GOES DATA ARCHIVE AND RETRIEVAL SERVICES FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN/SPACE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING CENTER SOL 52- POC Ms. Marlene Quade, Contract Specialist, 301/713-0839, Ms. Aileen Redding, Contracting Officer, 301/713-0839 The Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS), National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), proposes to negotiate on a non- competitive basis, with the University of Wisconsin - Madison, Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC), a one year contract, with six option years, for archive and retrieval services for the Geosynchronous Observational Environmental Satellite (GOES) - satellite data. NCDC is responsible for the archiving and distribution of data from NOAA's GOES satellites. The University's SSEC has provided archive and retrieval services for data from the GOES satellites since 1979, utilizing a unique method of recording a digital signal on an analog medium which made these data accessible only through a system developed at the University. Because of the high volume of the data stream, traditional archive media are not a feasible means of storing these data. The SSEC developed this unique method of writing digital data to an analog videocassette, readable with special hardware and software developed and owned by the University. The University will ingest data and write all current data simultaneously to two high density IBM 3590 cartridges. The University will provide archiving and retrieval of the GOES data, as well as distribution services of the data on various medium, per individual request, to the user community, within ten working days or less of the request. The distributed data will include a description of any anomalies, extraction parameters including satellite, instrument, area, band, image resolution, date/time and mode (must be able to deinterleave rapid scan images from normal mode full disk images. Vendors who believe they can provide the required services are invited to submit, in writing, an affirmative response demonstrating an ability to assume the above duties without disruption to data archiving, retrieval, and distribution services. Any written responses must be received no later than 15 days after the publication of this synopsis. In order to be considered responsive, the correspondence must be accompanied by a written narrative statement of capability, including detailed technical information and other technical literature, sufficient to permit agency analysis in order to determine a bona fide capability to meet the Government's requirements. Responses without the required documentation will be considered non- responsive. This is not a formal notice of solicitation. See Note 22. (0152)

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