The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) /Office of Research & Applications, National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS) intend to award a requirement on a sole source basis, citing 41 U.S.C. 253 ( c ) (1) "Only one Responsible source, " with, University of Alabama for the project entitled: "Convective Initiation". The NAICS code is 611310 with a size standard dollar amount of $7,000,000.00.

The acquisition is for services required by Climate Research & Applications Division. The purpose of the project is to develop and evaluate algorithm for ABI 0-2 hour CI now casting product generation and provide science codes to the algorithm integrate team (AIT) for software implementation and process demonstration. We plan to use locally available hardware resources initially for software testing, with phased transition to a collaborative test bed environment as it comes online. The proxy data will leverage off of existing imagery from GOES and especially from MSG/SEVERI via collaborative with EUMETSAT. Only a pre-development effort was supported in 2007, with a full spin-up expected during this funding period. Much of the code and initial documentation is completed. University of Alabama is the only known source to NOAA.

The resultant contract will be a period of performance of one year and will include four 12-month option periods. The government anticipates the award of a fixed price contract.

Interested persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to this requirement; however, this notice is not a request for competitive proposals. All capability statements received within 15 days after date of publication of this notification will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Telephone requests will not be honored.

POINT OF CONTACT

Gerald Copeland, Contract Specialist, Phone 301 713-4931, Email: [email protected]

PLACE OF PERFORMANCE

Address; Office of Research & Applications, NESDIS/E/RA, 5200 Auth Road, Camp Springs, MD 20746-4304