Argo Profiling Floats

Added: Mar 30, 2015 2:29 pm

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This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6 Streamlined Procedures for Evaluation and Solicitation for Commercial Items and FAR Subpart 13.5 Test Program for Commercial Items, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. This solicitation is issued as a request for quotation (RFQ). Submit written quotes on RFQ Number NRMAH000-15-00219. This procurement is unrestricted and open to all sources. The associated NAICS code is 334519 Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing; the small business size standard is 500 employees.

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.