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B -- DEVELOPMENT OF QUANTITATIVE ECONOMIC AALYSES FOR WEATHER & CLIMATE DATA INITIATIVES SOL 00-0049 DUE 083100 POC Sandra Souders, (301) 713-0854 B -- The U.S. Dept. of Commerce/NOAA/NPOESS Integrated Program Office (IPO) intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with Stratus Consulting, Inc. to provide a corroborative study to undertake a preliminary investigation of household demand for and benefits derived from weather information through the development of quantitative operational benefits models. The purpose of the corroborative study is to quantify the improvement in weather data environmental data records (EDRs), which will be gained as a consequence of the proposed operational advancements in the sensor payloads, surface observational technologies, and numerical modeling and attendant use of supercomputers. Stratus Consulting, Inc. conducted a pilot study in the Boulder/Denver Colorado region of household uses and values of advanced weather products with the study findings precipitating the need for additional corroboration to continue developing a decision support tool (DST) directly relating EDR data to the economics benefits of improved weather prediction. This is a notice of intent with no solicitation package available. (Reference No. 00-0049) Posted 08/21/00 (W-SN488324). (0234)

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