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58 -- NESDIS CDA STATION ANTENNA UPGRADES AND REPLACEMENTS SOL 50-DGNE-7-90067 POC Kari L. Bilal, Contract Specialist, (301)713-0823 / Edward F. Tennant, Jr., Contracting Officer, (301)713-0823 E-MAIL: Click here for Point of Contact, Kari.L.Bilal@noaa.gov. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) has a requirement to provide antenna upgrades, an antenna replacement and additional antennas to support the Geostationary and Polar operational environmental satellite programs. Two of the antennas will support multiple satellite tracking missions requirements involving L-Band, S-Band, and X-Band receive, and S-Band transmit capability. This procurement also provides for upgrades to two existing antenna with options for the acquisition of up to two large Geostationary-only antennas. The new antennas will be remotely-controlled large paraboloids with auto-track capability. Most of the project antenna work will be performed at the NOAA/NESDIS Wallops Command and Data Acquisition (CDA) Station, Wallops Station, VA. An electronic copy of the Request for Proposals (RFP) will be posted on-line via the Internet, on the opening date, scheduled on or about May 3, 1997. The closing date for submission of offers will be on or about June 3, 1997. A hard-copy of the RFP package will be available, upon written request, to the address above. Interested parties may obtain instructions for Internet site location of the RFP by forwarding an E-mail inquiry to the POC at the address below. TELEPHONE REQUESTS FOR THE RFP PACKAGE WILL NOT BE HONORED. (0093)

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