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National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) High Plains Regional Weather Records Center (HPRWRC)
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The National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) is seeking a single-award, Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract for the High Plains Regional Weather Records Center (HPRWRC), covering North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming, with a base ordering period from September 17, 2026, through September 16, 2031. The contractor will be responsible for transforming NOAA’s environmental data—satellite, in situ, radar, and paleoclimate—into regionally tailored products and services that support user needs, enhance resilience, and advance decision-making in the High Plains region. Work will be executed through three service categories: Base Services supporting NCEI directly, Regional Services for state-level users within the region, and National Capability Services contributing to the broader Regional Weather Records Centers network. The HPRWRC must be physically located within the region and engage extensively with industry, public sector stakeholders, and academic institutions to identify, prioritize, and translate user requirements into actionable tools and services, while also transitioning successful innovations into sustained NCEI operational capabilities. The contract includes a Firm Fixed Price (FFP) Task Order 1 that encapsulates all core requirements for the life of the IDIQ, with additional task orders to be awarded within the ordering period, subject to funding and mission needs. Proposals must be submitted electronically by 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time on June 26, 2026, to two designated NOAA email addresses, following strict formatting rules requiring four distinct volumes: a written Business Proposal, an oral Technical Proposal with accompanying slides, a written Past Performance volume, and a written Price Proposal. Offerors must comply with federal acquisition regulations, including FAR clauses on ethics, conflict of interest, subcontracting, child labor, veterans’ and disability equal opportunity, and restrictive payments, with deviations in effect for certain labor-related provisions in January 2026. The evaluation is based on five weighted factors—Experience for the IDIQ, Technical Approach to Task Order 1, Key Personnel, Past Performance, and Price—with non-price factors being of equal importance and collectively significantly more important than price. Offerors must also demonstrate organizational responsibility under FAR Subpart 9.1, submit a compliant Data Management Plan not exceeding two pages, maintain an active SAM registration, and certify independent pricing and avoidance of conflicts or prohibited activities. The contractor must adhere to stringent information security requirements, including compliance with the
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Asheville, NC, USASet-Aside
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Submission Closed
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6/22/2026 - Amendment 0003 provides additional clarification to the proposal preparation General Instructions. Please refer to the SF30 for additional details.
6/17/2026 - Amendment 0002 revises Section L and Section M of the RFP. Please see the SF30 continuation page for the list of changes.
6/9/2026 - Amendment 0001 attachments and Responses to RFP Questions and Comments are posted. Proposal due date extended to June 26, 2026.
1. Introduction and Background
The mission of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) is to provide and ensure timely access to global environmental data from satellites and other sources to promote, protect, and enhance the Nation's economy, security, environment, and quality of life. NESDIS acquires and manages the Nation's operational environmental satellites, provides data and information services to numerous end users, and conducts related research.
Since 1990, NCEI’s RCS program has traditionally supported Regional Weather Records Centers (RWRCs) established at Public Universities within six geographic regions. For more than forty years, Regional Centers have produced and delivered environmental data, products, information, and services – hereafter collectively termed “products and services” – and captured user needs. By transforming, tailoring, and augmenting NCEI’s products and services, the RWRCs provide a bridge between NCEI and regional user communities, including the private sector. The RWRCs support NOAA’s mission to advance understanding of long-term weather variability and impacts through user engagement and the translation of data into usable products and services for decision makers.
2. Scope of Work
A. Geographic Scope
This contract is for the High Plains Regional Weather Records Center (HPRWRC), which is composed of ND, SD, NE, KS, CO, and WY.
The contractor providing the HPRWRC capability shall be physically located in the region defined above and must serve all states, territories, and U.S.-affiliated islands in the region. An RWRC with unique capabilities may work with other RWRCs to meet user needs beyond its immediate region.
B. Program Scope
The HPRWRC shall provide products and services to address regional weather records needs and issues in the context of NCEI’s broader environmental information responsibilities. This will include leveraging NOAA’s capabilities and expertise by transforming its satellite, in situ, radar, and paleoclimate data and products into regionally-tailored products and services, as appropriate, that meet the needs of users and partners and promote resilience and prosperity. The HPRWRC will focus their work in four broad areas:
- Regional engagement and user needs identification, in which the HPRWRC will engage with industry, economic and environmental sectors, and public sector constituencies throughout each region to understand their long-term weather-related issues, needs, awareness, and capabilities.
- Needs prioritization and product and tool provision, in which HPRWRC will adapt or develop, test, and sustain tools, products, and services meeting user requirements. To this end, they will support NCEI in the collection, understanding, adjudication and translation of user needs to requirements for future products and/or product modifications through regular contributions to NCEI’s requirements collection database tool.
- Transitioning appropriate tools, products, and services to sustained NCEI operational states, in which the HPRWRC will plan and execute transition projects that result in new or upgraded NCEI operational software, systems, products, services, and other capabilities.
- Services in which the HPRWRC will sustain activities supporting their mission of the provision of products and services as well as other NCEI regional and national needs.
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