Regional Climate Centers Services
Notice Type: Presolicitation Notice
Place of Contract Performance: Contractor’s location
Subject: Regional Climate Centers Services
Proposed Solicitation Number: 1332KP20BNEEN0005
Closing Response Date: Will be stated within the solicitation.
Description:
The mission of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) is to provide and ensure timely access to global environmental data from satellites and other sources to promote, protect, and enhance the Nation's economy, security, environment, and quality of life. NESDIS acquires and manages the Nation's operational environmental satellites, provides data and information services to numerous end users, and conducts related research.
The National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) is the official source for historical and near-real-time atmospheric and space weather, climate, coasts, oceanographic, and geophysical environmental data and information, and supports the NESDIS mission. NCEI headquarters are located in Asheville, NC, with additional major presences in Boulder, CO; Silver Spring, MD; and Stennis Space Center, MS; as well as regional staff stationed around the country. NCEI provides end-to-end capacity for acquisition, stewardship, access, services, and assessment of its holdings in support of NOAA’s mission to “understand climate variability and change to enhance society’s ability to plan and respond” among others.
To better support its users, NCEI uses a three-tiered program for environmental services that leverages the expertise and capabilities of partners at the national, regional, and state levels. At the first tier, NCEI provides national-level climate monitoring and environmental data archiving, products, and services in response to national economic and environmental priorities. At the second tier, NCEI supports a Regional Climate Services (RCS) program that makes relevant and actionable products and services accessible to a range of place-based private and public sector customers. At the third tier, NCEI primarily partners with state climate offices and the American Association of State Climatologists (AASC) to promote data access and capture user requirements.
NCEI’s six Regional Climate Centers (RCC) are a key part of its RCS program. The RCCs produce and deliver environmental data, products, information, and services – hereafter collectively termed “products and services” – and capture user needs in six distinct regions of the United States, including the conterminous U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, and territories. By transforming, tailoring, and augmenting NCEI’s products and services, the RCCs provide a bridge between NCEI and regional user communities, including the private sector. They support NOAA’s mission to advance understanding of climate variability and impacts through user engagement and the translation of data into useable products and services for decision-makers.
RCCs support NCEI’s effort to understand user needs for environmental information, and to translate those needs into requirements for the development of future products and services. They work closely with NCEI’s Information Services Branch and its Regional Climate Services Directors (RCSD), with the RCSDs primarily assessing, prioritizing, and translating constituent needs into actionable product requirements, and the RCCs primarily providing operational capacity to deliver products and services. NCEI Information Services provides strategic direction to the RCCs to align their core activities with emerging regional priorities. Working together, NCEI and the RCCs enable more environmentally-informed private- and public-sector decision-making in all sectors of the economy and effectively enhance the Nation’s preparedness for and sustainability in response to environmental extremes and change.
To maintain a cost-effective program, RCCs consider existing and planned capabilities of other NOAA and non-NOAA environmental service providers to avoid redundancy. RCCs share their expertise in observational networks, data stewardship, and information systems design with NCEI, the National Weather Service (NWS), and other NOAA programs and partners to ensure an integrated approach to environmental information analysis and dissemination.
Set-aside Status: No Small Business Set-Aside
Small business size standard: $16.5M
Solicitation documents will be made available for download at http://www.beta.sam.gov. Paper copies of this solicitation will not be issued.
All responsible sources may submit a bid, proposal, or quotation, which shall be considered by the agency.
1332KP20BNEEN0005 Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
7/20/20, 7:13 PM