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70 -- SOFTWARE SOL NWWG4-900077DT DUE 021999 POC Doris Turner, Purchasing Agent, 303-497-3872;FAX: 303- 497-3163 E-MAIL: NOAA; MASC Acquisition Management, Doris.P.Turner@noaa.gov. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Weather Service (NWS), National Severe Storms Lab (NSSL) is currently engaged in designing, developing and deploying open system replacements to the radar data and signal processing components of the weather surveillance radar -- 1988 Doppler (WSR- 88D). The Open systems Radar Data Acquisition (ORDA) host computer, as developed by the NSSL team, requires an operating system known as VxWorks which is contained within the Tornado development tool set. VxWorks and Tornado are provided by Wind River Systems Inc. and is a widely used system for real-time applications such as the ORDA. This software is proprietary to Wind River Systems and is not available from any other source. The WSR-88D Operational Support Facility (OSF) needs to operate this test bed with VxWorks in a manner identical to the NSSL development system. The NSSL has already invested over two years in the development of the ORDA code. The use of any other operating system would require significant modifications to the ORDA software and would result in significant delays to the project and increased costs. Interested sources proposing to supply an equivalent system must submit a written qualification statement clearly establishing capability to meet the above requirements within 15 days from the date of this synopsis. The qualification statements will be used to determine the need for competitive bids. In the absence of other qualified sources, it is the intent of the Government to negotiate a sole source contract under the authority of 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1) with Wind River Systems, 800 East Campbell, Suite 202, Richardson, TX 75081 as this source is considered to be the only responsible source and no other items will satisfy agency requirements. Responses must be received on or before February 19, 1999. This announcement is being issued under the Simplified Acquisition Procedures, FAR Part 13 (NTE $100,000.00). Agency level protest procedures are at http://www.doc.gov/oam/conops/#REFERENCE. FAR Clauses in full text are at http://www.ARNET.gov/far/. Posted 02/04/99 (D-SN295266). (0035)

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