Weather Monitoring systems

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration, procuring on behalf of the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences, seeks a weather monitoring system via RFQ with proposals due September 10, 2026 at 12:00 PM ET and questions due September 8, 2026 at 12:00 PM EST. The procurement is set aside for Total Small Business.

Place of performance is Boulder, Colorado. The system must measure temperature (–40 to 60°C with 0.2°C accuracy), barometric pressure (650 to 1100 mb with 0.5 mb accuracy), humidity (0 to 100% with 2% accuracy), precipitation (0 to 152 mm/hr with 2.5 mm/hr or 10% accuracy), wind speed (0 to 28 m/s with 3% accuracy), wind direction (0 to 359 degrees with 5 degree accuracy), and angular tilt (–90 to +90 degrees with 1 degree accuracy). The system must also include dust accumulation sensing (0–100% with 10% accuracy), lightning distance detection (0–40 km range), visibility measurement (10–10,000 m range with 10% accuracy), a 360-degree imaging camera with four wide-angle color images at 320×240 resolution, cloud height/ceiling measurement (surface to 10,000 ft with 100 ft or 10% accuracy), wireless datalogging, adjustable bracket and pole mount, and a 50-foot serial-to-serial extension cable. Delivery is required within 180 days after receipt of order, FOB-Destination to 325 Broadway Street, Boulder, Colorado 80305. Award will be a Firm Fixed Price Purchase Order using Lowest Price Technically Acceptable source selection. Quotations must be submitted in two separate files: Section 1 (Technical, maximum five pages) and Section 2 (Price, unlimited pages), formatted in Microsoft Word 2007 or later, Microsoft Excel 2007 or later, or text-searchable PDF. NAICS code is 541715; PSC code is 6660.