National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Northeast Regional Weather Records Center (NRWRC)
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The contract establishes the Northeast Regional Weather Records Center (NRWRC) under the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), part of NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service. The NRWRC’s mission is to provide tailored environmental data and services for the Northeast region, which includes states from Maine to West Virginia and the District of Columbia. The contractor must be physically located within this region and serve all included states and affiliated territories. The NRWRC acts as a regional bridge, transforming NOAA’s diverse environmental datasets—ranging from satellite and radar data to paleoclimate information—into customized products and tools that address regional weather records and environmental needs. The scope of work focuses on four main areas: engaging with regional users to identify and prioritize their weather-related needs; developing, adapting, and sustaining relevant products and tools; transitioning appropriate solutions into operational use by NCEI; and maintaining ongoing service provision to support both regional and national environmental data needs. This contract aims to enhance the availability and usability of environmental data to support decision-making that promotes resilience and economic prosperity across the Northeast. The solicitation was issued by the Department of Commerce’s NOAA office based in Silver Spring, MD, with the primary place of performance in Asheville, North Carolina, and includes detailed points of contact to facilitate communication.
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Asheville, NC, USASet-Aside
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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 Northeast Regional Weather Records Center (NRWRC), which is composed of ME, NH, VT, MA, RI, CT, NY, NJ, PA, DE, MD, WV, and DC.
The contractor providing the NRWRC capability to a region shall be physically located within the region 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 NRWRC 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 NRWRC will focus its work in four broad areas:
- Regional engagement and user needs identification, in which the NRWRC 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 the NRWRC 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 NRWRC 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 NRWRC will sustain activities supporting their mission of the provision of products and services as well as other NCEI regional and national needs.