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Mark E. Caban Contracting Officer

The purpose of this Amendment No. 0002 is to (1) revise Solicitation Attachment 1 Specifications and (2) respond to a question from an interested party.

Accordingly:

Western Acquisition Division

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325 Broadway Boulder, CO 80305 Julia Hamilton 303-497-3487 julia.l.hamilton@noaa.gov

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CABAN.MARK.E.1365831730 Digitally signed by CABAN.MARK.E.1365831730 DN: c=US, o=U.S. Government, ou=DoD, ou=PKI, ou=OTHER, cn=CABAN.MARK.E.1365831730 Date: 2015.04.09 13:41:53 -06'00'

Solicitation No. RFQ NRMAH000-15-00219, Amendment 2, April 9, 2015

The solicitation is revised as follows:

1. Attachment 1 Specifications, Section A, Number 4 is revised to add floats must have lithium batteries. The text is as follows:

(4) Floats must have sufficient energy in their delivered configuration from lithium batteries to perform the required functions for a minimum period of at least 6 years with a duty cycle of 10 days (219 or more cycles). More cycles are better.

2. Attachment 1 Specifications, Section A, Number 15 is revised to add the reference for Clause FAR 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions –Commercial Items for testing, inspection and acceptance. The text is as follows:

(15) Floats (and accompanying instrumentation, including CTDs) must pass Government tests for performance to the satisfaction of Government personnel, or be replaced/repaired by the contractor at the contractor's expense (including shipping costs in both directions) and arrive at the specified Government delivery address within 2 months of notification to the contractor by the Government of a problem and availability of float for shipping from the specified Government address. Testing, inspection and acceptance will be in accordance with the clause at Section (XI) FAR 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items (a) Inspection/Acceptance.

Questions and Responses from an Interested Party:

Question 1. Attachment 1 Section A, Number 7: Will the Government consider delivery “FOB Government Pick” and specify delivery to the Place of Acceptance (CAR 1352.246-70), as a measure to limit contractor’s impact on cost to the Government for transportation?

NOAA Response: Delivery must be FOB Destination as stated in Solicitation Section (VII).

Attachment 1: Specifications

Argo Profiling Floats

Argo (www.argo.net) is an international effort to measure the temperature and salinity fields in upper two km of the global ocean by populating it with an array of approximately 3,500 profiling floats equipped with conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) instruments that telemeter their data to shore with minimal delay. It is a very high visibility program for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA). Pacific Marine Experimental Laboratory (PMEL) has been a partner in the U.S. Argo consortium since the program inception in 2000. PMEL responsibilities include procurement, testing, and deployment of a fraction of the U.S. Argo floats.

SPECIFICATIONS:

The contractor shall furnish the necessary personnel, material, equipment, services, and facilities to provide a model of profiling floats as specified below:

A) Float Specifications/Requirements:

Provide profiling floats as specified below that are deployment-ready (calibrated, assembled, ballasted, weighed, and tested), equipped with CTD capable of sampling temperature, salinity, and pressure continuously throughout their ascent, then reducing those data by bin averaging at specified pressure intervals as close as 1 or 2 dbar. Floats should determine position by global positioning system (GPS) before transmitting those data to shore via Iridium (in either Router-Based Unrestricted Digital Internetworking Connectivity Solutions (RUDICS) or Short Burst Data (SBD) format). Float must be capable of a gross fractional volume change of at least 1.15% and ballasted to allow profiling from 2000 dbar to the near-surface (4 to 1 dbar, shallower is better) in all regions of the ocean.

(1) Floats must be capable of a minimum gross fractional volume change of 1.15% and ballasted to allow cycling between the surface and 2000-dbar pressure over the entire global (ice-free) ocean.

(2) Floats must be able to park for predetermined 1-20 day periods at a different predetermined subsurface pressure than their profiling pressure ("park and profile" capability).

(3) Floats must be capable of continuously sampling from 2000 dbar to the near surface (4 to 1 dbar, shallower is better) then reducing those data by bin averaging at specified pressure intervals as close as 1 or 2 dbar.

(4) Floats must have sufficient energy in their delivered configuration from (or after retrofitting to lithium batteries by the Government) to to perform the required above functions for a minimum period of at least 6 years with a duty cycle of 10 days (219 or more cycles). More cycles are better.

(5) Floats must have demonstrated performance, with examples of deployed instruments successfully performing the above functions for at least 80 cycles. More cycles and higher survival rates are better.

(6) Floats must be light enough (<30 kg) to ensure that deployments from a variety of platforms including volunteer observing ships (VOS) are feasible. Lighter is better.

(7) Floats must be delivered to the Government FBO Destination in boxes sufficiently sturdy to protect the floats prior to deployment, while in transit, and onboard ship or aircraft.

(8) Float boxes must be built to accommodate stacked loading and moveable with a forklift or pallet jack, and be suitable for export to most countries (e.g. all wood components of appropriately treated plywood).

(9) Float CTDs must have average initial measurement accuracies of +/-0.002 C in temperature, +/-0.005 PSS-78 in salinity, and +/-3 dbar in pressure.

(10) Float CTDs must report back data to a resolution of 0.001 C in temperature, 0.001 PSS-78 in salinity, and 1 dbar in pressure.

(11) Float CTDs must have demonstrated reliability and stability of +/-0.01 C in temperature, +/-0.02 PSS-78 in salinity, and +/-6 dbar in pressure over multi-year missions.

(12) Floats must send back sufficient data to determine their vertical ascent rate through any given measurement bin to within an accuracy of +/-10%.

(13) Float CTDs must use a system that ensures temperature and conductivity measurements are made within the same controlled volume of water.

(14) Float CTDs must employ conductivity cells with antifouling protection by diffusion of tri-butyl tin in a controlled volume (no cell coatings).

(15) Floats (and accompanying instrumentation, including CTDs) must pass Government tests for performance to the satisfaction of Government personnel, or be replaced/repaired by the contractor at the contractor's expense (including shipping costs in both directions) and arrive at the specified Government delivery address within 2 months of notification to the contractor by the Government of a problem and availability of float for shipping from the specified Government address. Inspection and Acceptance will be in accordance with the Solicitation clause at Section (XI) FAR 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items (a) Inspection/Acceptance.

(16) Contractor must provide the Government any unusual or customized tools required for float modification, repair, and communication (e.g. special wrenches, vacuum fittings, communications interfaces, and so on), as well as initial training (Government personnel may travel to a Contactor's facility at Government expense for this purpose) and subsequent advice for Government personnel in float testing, repair, and communication as requested by the Government.

(17) Contractor must provide a manual or manuals (and any associated software) that include instructions on deployment, float self-tests, and data decoding specifics.

(18) Floats must be capable of self-activation upon deployment.

(19) Floats must be certified and designed to withstand shipment including by land, sea, or air, prior to deployment.

B) Additional Instrument Features:

(1) Biodegradable packaging enabling deployment from a rapidly moving vessel

(2) Floats with sufficient energy in their standard configuration to perform the above functions for more than 6 years with a duty cycle of 10 days (more than 219 profiles).

(3) Iridium/GPS floats using Iridium SBD rather than Iridium RUDICS.

(4) Floats with tested ice detection and avoidance software.

C) Delivery Schedule:

Orders placed of twelve (12) items or less will be required to be delivered within sixty

(60) calendar days after award of the order. Orders greater than twelve (12) will be delivered in increments of twelve (12), with the first twelve (12) floats to be delivered within sixty (60) calendar days after award of the order and the remaining to be delivered in increments of twelve (12) every thirty (30) calendar days thereafter. Example: Order placed for 41 floats on 1 July. First 12 floats due no later than 29 August, with next 12 due by 28 September, 12 more due no later than 28 October, and the final 5 floats due by 27 November. PMEL may elect to specify in an order fewer floats in each delivery, or to have deliveries over longer time intervals at their discretion.