National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Southern Regional Weather Records Center (SRWRC)
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The contract pertains to the operation of the Southern Regional Weather Records Center (SRWRC) under the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), a component of NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS). The SRWRC serves the states of Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, providing regionally tailored weather-related data, products, and services that support NOAA’s mission of enhancing national environmental understanding and resilience. The contractor must be physically located within this region and deliver comprehensive services to all designated states, territories, and affiliated islands. The SRWRC acts as a bridge between national environmental data resources and local user communities, engaging with diverse stakeholders to address long-term weather variability and regional impact issues. The scope of work encompasses four key areas: engaging with regional users to identify weather-related needs, prioritizing these needs to develop and sustain tailored products and tools, transitioning successful innovations to operational NCEI capabilities, and maintaining ongoing service activities. This includes leveraging NOAA’s satellite, in situ, radar, and paleoclimate data to produce actionable environmental products. The contract is a solicitation issued by the Department of Commerce with a response deadline in mid-June 2026, and it requires coordination with national NCEI efforts to address regional and broader user requirements. The contract supports NOAA’s broader objective of fostering informed decision-making through accurate and accessible environmental information, thus contributing to economic prosperity, environmental protection, and public safety in the southern United States region.
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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 Southern Regional Weather Records Center (SRWRC), which is composed of TN, MS, LA, AR, OK, and TX.
The contractor providing the SRWRC 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 SRWRC 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 SRWRC will focus its work in four broad areas:
- Regional engagement and user needs identification, in which the SRWRC 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 SRWRC 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 SRWRC 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 SRWRC will sustain activities supporting their mission of the provision of products and services as well as other NCEI regional and national needs.