Engineering and Mission Operations Support Services V (EMOSS V)

Added: Jan 22, 2016 10:19 pm Note 1: These solicitation documents were posted on FBO on January 22, 2016 under the FBO category "special notice." In order to ensure that all interested vendors receive these solicitation documents in a timely manner, this combined synopsis/solicitation notice has been created with a link to the previous post.

Note 2: A pre-solicitation notice was posted on FBO for this requirement on November 18, 2015, with the solicitation number listed as AB-133E-16-RP-EMOSSV.

Description:

The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC)/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS) operates all of the United States operational environmental satellites from the NOAA Satellite Operations Facility (NSOF) in Suitland, MD: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES), Polar Operational Environmental Satellites (POES), the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (SNPP) satellite, Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) mission, and Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP). NESDIS also supports the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite and through international agreement the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)'s Meteorological Operational (METOP) Satellite and Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales's (CNES) Jason-2 Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM). The data gathered from these satellites allow our country's environmental and emergency agencies to monitor and forecast hurricanes and other severe storms, monitor oceans, monitor global climate change, verify ozone depletion and land surface change, monitor critical space environmental parameters, and support search rescue efforts across the globe. NESDIS is also preparing to support such missions as Jason-3, the Joint Polar Satellite Systems Satellites (JPSS), and the GOES-R satellite system.

NESDIS also operates the Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking (SARSAT) Mission Control Center for the United States and its supporting ground system equipment to relay search and rescue data to emergency response agencies. The SARSAT program is an operational program managed within NOAA that utilizes NOAA's operational weather satellites to detect and locate distress signals in the United States and around the World. NESDIS operates and maintains the operational ground system for the SARSAT program which has assets in Guam, Hawaii, California, Florida, and the NOAA Satellite Operations Facility in Suitland, Maryland.

The scope of this contract is to provide sustaining engineering and ground system engineering support for the two operational environmental satellite constellations GOES and POES; provide sustaining engineering support of U.S. instruments on the METOP satellites; operational and ground system engineering support for Jason-2; configuration management of mission operational databases and products for all satellite constellations; and support for future operational environmental satellite programs.