Delivery Order GS10F0157K-EP1389

This federal contract award to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) aims to quantify and attribute past air quality trends in ozone and particulate matter over the United States from 2005 to 2018. The $696,948 grant will fund the use of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model, constrained by NASA satellite data, to generate daily air quality analyses at the county level. The effort will disentangle the contribution of individual physical and chemical processes...

This federal contract award to the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is for a project to improve the representation of the physical atmosphere in air quality management decision support tools (DSTs) used for emissions control strategy development under State Implementation Plans (SIPs) to meet Clean Air Act health effects standards. The $1,046,854 grant will allow UAH to incorporate NASA satellite products such as surface skin temperature, insolation, and albedo into the Weather Research...

This is a new federal contract award to WSP USA Environment & Infrastructure Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit engineering and professional services firm, to provide maintenance and enhancements of the American Meteorological Society/Environmental Protection Agency (AMS/EPA) Regulatory Model (AERMOD) Modeling System. The contract has a ceiling value of $4,941,033.53 and a completion date of January 8, 2026. It was awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Air and...

This $682,616 federal grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Wisconsin System, operating through its University of Wisconsin - Madison division, to develop a satellite-constrained meteorological modeling platform for air quality assessment modeling along the Lake Michigan shoreline. The modeling platform will use the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model and incorporate high-resolution regional nests, as well as assimilate NASA...

This is a $770,107.72 grant awarded by NASA to the University of Colorado (CU) to develop a computationally efficient chemical data assimilation system for air quality (AQ) modeling and forecasting. CU will build a surrogate model for the chemical solver in the widely used GEOS-Chem AQ model, with the goal of making AQ modeling less computationally intensive. This will enable improved assimilation of satellite observations of atmospheric composition, such as nitrogen dioxide from future...

The Environmental Protection Agency awarded a $310,364 delivery order to WSP USA Environment & Infrastructure Inc. to provide routine operating costs in support of the Clean Air Status and Trends Network program. The delivery order, issued under an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract vehicle, calls for time and materials support services through July 2022 to operate air quality monitoring stations and collect data as part of EPA's long-term nationwide monitoring effort for...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Research and Development awarded a delivery order valued at $542,281 to Aptim Federal Services, LLC on July 30, 2024, to provide technical support for improving water quality modeling and evaluating scenarios. This task order, designated 68HERC24F0447 under the larger contract 68HERC24D0003, carries a firm fixed price and is scheduled for completion by August 10, 2027. The work will be performed at the EPA's Cincinnati, Ohio facility. No...

Met One Instruments, Inc. was awarded a $21,215 purchase order by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Research and Development to provide sequential PM10 federal reference method monitors. The firm fixed price contract supports the EPA's air quality monitoring efforts through the delivery of particulate matter sampling equipment. No subcontractors or set aside designations were indicated. The award is likely associated with the EPA's ongoing research into air pollutant...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a delivery order to General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. (GDIT) on December 30, 2023, for air quality modeling and simulation analysis services. The contract, issued without set-aside restrictions, carries a ceiling value of $6.3 million and operates under a labor-hours pricing model. Performance will be conducted at the EPA's headquarters in Washington, D.C., with an ultimate completion date of December 29, 2026. This delivery...

This is a $52,992 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Aerodyne Research Inc., a small business manufacturer based in Billerica, Massachusetts. The three-year research program builds on findings from the KORUS-AQ field campaign, focused on improving model capabilities to accurately simulate PM2.5 levels and composition during haze events. Aerodyne, a leading provider of advanced atmospheric monitoring instruments, will leverage its expertise in developing real-time,...