USDA Forest Service, Southwestern Regional Office, 517 Gold Avenue SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102

S -- UTILITIES AND HOUSEKEEPING SERVICES MONTHLY WEATHER SERVICE SOL r3991 DUE 121198 POC Wilford Romero, Contracting Officer, 505-842-3342 POC Wilford Romero, Contracting Officer, 505-842-3342 USDA Forest Service intends to negotiate a contract with Weatherbank, Inc. to provide monthly weather service to 12 locations within the Southwestern Region, which includes Arizona and New Mexico. The service must deliver a continuous feed of the most current weather data to an IBM compatible, DOS based personal computer. The data must include all NOAA National Weather Service Family of Services feeds(NAA 604,NOAA Weatheeer Wire, Domestic Data, International Circuit) hurricane and tracking projection graphics, doppler radar displays, real-time and hour-old through 23-hour old lightning real-time and hour -ol stike data and GOES 8 and GOES 9 satellite pictures the requirements of the service are: 1)A continous, KU-band satellite delivered feed of 9600 baud or faster,2)One combined data feed including text and graphic data, 3)Text data to be value-added text, in ASCII format,4)Color graphic data to be VGA in regional maps all state maps, and/or custom(user defined) base maps; containing overlays on interstates and roads, count lines, lakes, rivers, streams and resovoirs; updated every fifteen minutes; system storage for up to the pas 23-hours; user defined looping or animation desplays or any time frame, 6)Color coded lightning displays (positive and negative polarity) on national, six(6)regional maps, all state maps, and/or custom (user defined)base maps; containing overlays of interstates, roads, county lines, lakes, resoviors; updated in real-time;system storage for up to the pas 23-hours;user defined looping or animation displays of anytime frame, 7)GOES 8 and GOES 9 color satellite desplays (IR) on three perspectives (westeern, USA (coast-to-coast),and eastern);updated hourly;system storage for up to the pas 23-hours;user defined looping or animated displays of any time fram,8)Contractor provided and maintained satellite earth station,10) System software and user defined for automatically saving each/all products to disk, automatically refreshing product to view upon arrival, automatically printing products, and automatically sounding audible alarm upon product arrival,11)System software for automatically detecting when any NWS product (forecast, weather watch or warning, etc.) has expired and provides the user for deleting or retaining expired product,12)Hurricane tracking with projected path in multi-colored desplays, update automatically in rel-time. Projected paths to also include projected areas containg 35,50 and 75 + knot winds. All tracking and projection displays to be available on global, oceanic, USA, USA regional, sate and user defined maps,13)ISOGRAPHIC surface and upper air analysis and projection graphics include all NWS products, such as MFR 10-day, Eropean, NGM, ETA,AVN, etc. models. All displays must have user defined and changeable color patterns,14)System containing an available product data base of more than 29,000 weather lines,15)System software for selecting for "daisy chaining" system for product storage of mre than 300 products,permitting unlimited storage,17)All systems software documentation,18)Installation of all system components,19)Training of all system components,20)24-hour per day, every day customer service,21)A.M. and P.M. fire weather forecast,22)METAFIRE weather forecast,23)Fire weather red flag warnings and watches,24)Haynes Index,25)Ventilation data,26)May require a Fire Weather Forecaster on-site during critical fire weather activity on an as needed daily basis (24 hour availablity). The provisions in FAR 52.212.1 Instructions to Offerors -- Commercial, 52.212.4 Contract Terms and Conditions, Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. The clause 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions required to implement Statutes or Executive Order -- Commercial items, applies to this acquisition as well as the flllowing clauses cited in the clause aare applicable to the acquisition; 52.222-36 Affirmative Action for Handicapped Workers (29 U.S.c. 793).,52.222-37,Employment Reports on Special Disabled Veternans and Veterans of the Vietnam Era (38 U.S.C. 4212). We anticipate a one year contract with an option to renew, beginning February 1999. Any award will be contingent upon Technical approval, Any responses to this synopsis/request for quotations should be sent to Contracing Officer, USDA Forest Service, 517 Gold Ave. SW, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102 and reference the quotation number. For information contact Wilford Romero, 505-842-3342 at the above address. Vendors wishing to respond should provide the following: A price on company/firm's letterhead showing unit price, monthly service fee including all applicable taxes, prompt payment terms and remittance address and completed FAR Clause 52.212-3 Offer, Representations and Certifications, Commercial Items. Offers must be in writing and accompanied by the completed Representations and Certifications. Fascimile and telegrapic or oral offers will not be accepted. Offers are due NLT 1630 hours on January 31, 1999. (l-009 SN018819) [USDA],[FOREST SERVICE],[517 GOLD]Avenue,S.W.,Albuquerque,NM[87102] Posted 10/27/98 (W-SN265781). (0300)

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