U. S. Department of Commerce, Attn: Penny S. Parker, National Data Buoy Center, Stennis Space Center, MS 39529-6000.

70 -- METEOROLOGICAL DATA RECEPTION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. SOL NO. 50-QANW-6-00005. DUE 083096 POC Penny S. Parker, Contracting Officer. Telephone 601-688-1705, fax (601) 688-3153. The National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) intends to negotiate only with Sonalysts, Inc. of Waterford, Connecticut for a single off-the-shelf WxStation system as NDBC's extensive market research has failed to identify another system meeting NDBC's minimum requirements. The minimum requirements for the data reception system include the following characteristics: 1) Display National Weather Service (NWS) information received from a satellite delivery system. 2) Display U.S. Navy oceanographic information received through the Navy Oceanographic Data Distribution (NODDS) system. And 3) Display NWS DIFAX, NWS Alphanumeric Family of Services, GOES Tap satellite imagery, and composite radar imagery featuring precipitation accumulations through a Ku-band receiver. The minimum requirements for the data management and display software are as follows: 1) System software must run on a single GFE SUN SPARC 20 workstation; 2) System must decode and plot on maps surface weather observations received in FM-13, BUOY, METAR, and C-MAN codes. 3) Analyses of observations shall be blended with gridded binary fields to add realism in data void areas. 4) Display of analyzed fields shall use contours and, for wind, streamlines overlaid with the plotted observations. 5) Must enable NDBC to read and write observations, both in raw and decoded form (measurements for individual stations), to and from the vendor's data base via an Application Program Interface (API) enabling NDBC to develop custom software using a high level language such as C. Delivery 30 days ARO. FOB Destination. See Note 22. (0194)

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