Purchase Order FA864923P0124

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded Vaisala Inc. a $1,058,547 firm fixed price delivery order contract to provide Dropwindsondes for NOAA's Hurricane Tracking and Research. Vaisala will supply its Dropwindsondes, which are expendable weather instruments deployed from aircraft into hurricanes and tropical storms, enabling NOAA to collect atmospheric measurements critical to improving hurricane intensity forecasts and research. The contract runs from June 1, 2022...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), an agency of the United States Department of Commerce, awarded a $499,200 firm fixed price delivery order contract to Graw Radiosondes GMBH & CO. KG, doing business as Graw Radiosondes of Germany. The contract is effective from August 22, 2022 through December 30, 2022 to provide DFM-17 Radiosondes for the National Weather Service. Radiosondes are instrumentation packages that are carried into the atmosphere usually by weather...

This firm-fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) to Stevens Water Monitoring Systems, Inc., a small business manufacturer and supplier of environmental monitoring equipment. The $30,166.75 contract requires the delivery of 5 weather stations and the provision of wireless management services to support the USBR's Northern California Area Office (NCAO). This contract was awarded under a total small business set-aside. The...

The Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research awarded a $298,775 firm fixed price purchase order to Vaisala Inc. to support hurricane research from July to October 2021. Under the terms of the award, Vaisala will provide 325 RD-41 Dropsonde Atmospheric Profilers to collect pressure, temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction data at 2 Hz as they fall from aircraft into tropical cyclones. The profilers must be compatible with NOAA aircraft launch and data systems, have proven...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $69,264 firm fixed price purchase order to Vaisala Inc. of Louisville, Colorado. The contract calls for Vaisala to deliver one AWS310 Automatic Weather Station to Anchorage, Alaska to replace obsolete systems within NOAA's network and ensure compatibility with existing equipment. The sole source award was negotiated under a justification to procure the AWS310, as described in the original solicitation, to maintain NOAA's...

The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $501,720 firm fixed price delivery order contract to Vaisala Inc. to provide RS41 radiosondes for the National Weather Service. The place of performance for this contract is Finland. The period of performance is from June 1, 2022 through September 10, 2022. Radiosondes are balloon-borne instruments that measure meteorological parameters and transmit data via radio to ground receivers, allowing the...

This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center to Vaisala Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit manufacturer of weather and environmental monitoring equipment. The $321,650.00 contract is for the delivery of RD41 Airborne Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System (AVAPS) compatible dropsondes, which are expendable atmospheric sensors used to collect weather data, particularly for hurricane monitoring. The contract has...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), an agency of the Department of Commerce, awarded Vaisala Inc. a $346,320 firm fixed price purchase order contract to provide RS41 Radiosondes for the National Weather Service. The place of performance is Silver Spring, Maryland and the period of performance is from November 29, 2021 through March 10, 2022. Radiosondes are balloon-borne instruments that measure meteorological parameters and transmit observation data via radio to ground...

The U.S. Air Force awarded a $5,691,522.00 Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) contract to Windborne Systems Inc., a small business based in Palo Alto, California. The contract, which has no set-aside designation, is for the development of the company's innovative, AI-enabled Global Sounding Balloon (GSB) platforms that can collect continuous atmospheric data from sea level to 20 kilometers. This contract supports the Air Force's "INNOVATION TO GLOBAL WEATHER SENSING" efforts, with the...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded a $212,600.00 Firm Fixed Price Purchase Order contract to Meteomatics AG, doing business as Meteomatics LTD, for the procurement of a Meteomatics Meteodrone MM-670M system, accessories, and related training. This specialized weather drone can ascend up to 6 km, operate in icing conditions, and deploy a parachute rescue system. The drone will be used to support the Federated States of Micronesia Testbed Project. The contract...