Description: notice of intent to award a sole source the office of naval research (ONR) intends to issue a sole source basic ordering agreement under the authority of far 6.302-1(a)(2)(III), only…

Description: notice of intent to award a sole source the office of naval research (ONR) intends to issue a sole source basic ordering agreement under the authority of far 6.302-1(a)(2)(III), only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements, on or about march 01, 2013 to the university corporation for atmospheric research (UCAR). The period of performance will be 60 months. The total estimated value of the basic ordering agreement is $5,000,000.00. Under the basic ordering agreement, UCAR will support a broad range of atmospheric services and research including: a. Specialized computations using data products, instrumentation or facilities unique to UCAR for climate, weather, space, ocean, and arctic process and prediction numerical simulations. B. Analysis of data sets from weather and climate simulations or data repositories unique to UCAR. C. Use of instrumentation, facilities, and data products or a combination of the aforementioned capabilities unique to UCAR to conduct of navy experiments. This includes cosmic data products for space weather and meteorological research. D. Use of data repositories and quality control capabilities to store data from navy experiments related to the UCAR. ONR intends to award this requirement as a sole source because UCAR has surface observing network facilities, computers and aircraft that can routinely produce atmospheric research products and quickly provide online data. In addition, ONR requires UCAR S centralized data archiving capability to store and share information with the scientific community. The north american industry classification system (NAICS) codes for this requirement are 541990. This notice is not a request for proposals or quotes. However, all responsible sources may submit a quotation and summary of technical capabilities, which, if received within 15 calendar days of publication of this notice, shall be considered by ONR. All responses must be submitted to the government point of contact at the email address shown below. Any response to this notice must clearly show that competition would be advantageous to the government. A determination not to open up the requirement to competition based upon the responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the government. Contracting office address: department of the navy office of naval research (ONR) code ONR-252 875 north randolph ST. Arlington, virginia 22203-1995 government