Master Station Mt GIlead

Notice Information Solicitation: NWCC-Master Stations Agency/Office: Natural Resources Conservation Service Location: National Centers Servicing Unit Title: Mt. Gilead Contract Award Date: 01/01/2015 Description(s): This notice is being published in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 5.101 requiring the dissemination of information for proposed contract actions. This is a notice of intent to award a sole source contract and is not a request for competitive proposals. The United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) intends to issue a sole source, firm-fixed-price contract to Michael Edwin Jordan for a small portion land lease to house the Mt. Gilead Master Station in Delaware,Ohio. National Water and Climate Center (NWCC) operates these Master Stations to accept and relay weather data from around the United States. The National Water and Climate Center (NWCC) collects data from multiple Meteorburst master stations in order to obtain remote station data from SNOTEL and SCAN systems. These projects range from helping to monitor and predict the snowmelt runoff and required reservoir storage to crop water uses. The Mt Gilead master station is a receive site collecting data from weather stations within the surrounding nine hundred miles. Located in farming community with minimum RF and electrical interference, the land is flat and clear making it an ideal location for a meteorburst master station. The site consists of an air conditioned stick built building approximately ten feet by fifteen feet mounted on a concrete foundation and houses the two six hundred pound transmitters as well as a rack of equipment including the receivers, computers, and station controller and a work bench. The building also includes an annex on the front for equipment storage. The building is totally screened inside with copper screening designed to reject RF interference. Outside the site consists of nine forty foot antenna towers, one holding the dual crossed dipole transmit antenna and the other eight mount the thirty foot yagi receive antennas. The tower bases are sunk in four foot square by 6 foot deep concrete foundations. The heliax antenna cables are run in two inch conduit from each antenna tower to the shelter. These stations are permanent and cannot easily be relocated and have been at the same location for years and it is the agency's intent to sign a one year contract with 4 option years. There is no reasonable expectation that the agency could relocate this station without excessive cost to the government therefore our intent is to sole source this contract. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. However, all responsible sources may submit a capability statement demonstrating their ability to provide the requested items/services or an exception to the intent to purchase on a sole source basis, which shall be considered by the Government if received by Wednesday, December 17th, 2014at 11:00 a.m., local time, Fort Worth, Texas (Central Time). Written responses to this synopsis shall contain sufficient documentation to establish your capability to fulfill the requirement. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. A determination not to compete this requirement, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government. NRCS will not be responsible for any costs incurred by interested parties in responding to this notice. Please email Darin Wilson at george.wilson@ftw.usda.gov with responses or questions regarding this requirement. 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