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K -- UPGRADE NWS DOPPLER RADAR WSR-74C -- POTENTIAL SOURCES SOUGHT DUE 080398 POC Carmela Calabrese or Donald Thompson, Contracting Officer, (301) 713-3478 Sources Sought. The U. S. Department of Commerce, NOAA, National Weather Service(NWS) is exploring the market to determine the availability of industry to provide enhancements and modifications to an existing Doppler Radar. In an effort to implement and test a U.S. National Weather Service River Forecast System (NWSRFS) in Mexico, the following enhancements and modifications are required to an Enterprise Electronics Corporation (EEC) weather surveillance radar WSR-74C Doppler, located at Guasave, Mexico: 1) Provide complete dual control capability so that radar operations can be controlled either locally at the weather office in Guasave or from the Servicio Meteorologico Nacional (SMN) facility in Mexico City. This includes all user interface activities such as product display, changing adaptable parameters, status monitoring, and data archiving. 2) Provide port(s) for radar digital data for local use and transmission capability to and use at the SMN facility in Mexico City. 3) Provide digital radar processing and archiving capability. The processing capability should include ingesting both realtime and archived data. 4) Provide user selectable automatic volume scan strategy(ies) sufficient to generate and display reliable precipitation accumulation estimates of one (1) hour, three (3) hours and storm total amounts. All elevation angles within a given volume scan used for precipitation estimates shall be contiguous. 5) In addition to the constant altitude post position indicator(CAPPI) and volume products, generate and display all base products -- the three moments of reflectivity, velocity and spectrum width -- at each elevation angle of a given scan strategy. 6) Each product will clearly identify the type of product, data levels, date, time, geographical location and elevation angle of the data. This is not a request for proposals. Interested parties are encouraged to respond to this announcement within 45 days of its publication. Interested firms shall submit in writing, its name, address, point of contact, telephone number, business size and a brief statement regarding its capability to provide the specified items, and the name, telephone number, and point of contact for businesses or other Government agencies to which it has previously provided similar supplies. Also, submit your Commercial Item Catalogue with Price List. No response will be provided to those inquiries which fail to provide the information requested. This information shall be submitted to the address stated herein or may be faxed to telephone number (301) 713-4155. Please limit responses to no more than ten pages. A solicitation will be issued after adequate funding is appropriated. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. The SIC Code for this action is 3820. See Note 22. (0169)

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