B -- Precipitation Chemistry Measurement Services

This is a special notice as the Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(NOAA) plans to negotiate a single source purchase order using simplified acquisition procedures with the Pennsylvania State University(PSU) under the authority of 41 U.S.C. 253c(1) as implemented by FAR 6.302-1. The purchase order may be procured in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) Part 12, through Federal Acquisition Circular(FAC) 2005-6. The purpose of this acquisition is to procure special precipitation chemistry measurement services from the PSU, Department of Meteorology site in State College, Pennsylvania. The PSU monitoring site may not be relocated as it is near the center of the region most affected by anthropogenic emission of sulfur and nitrogen oxides and has been a major center for the precipitation chemistry measurement program inter-comparisons since the early 1980s. The PSU site provides precipitation chemistry measurements for the NOAA, the Atmospheric Integrated Research Monitoring Network(AIRMoN), AIRMoN-dry, and NADP/NTN. The information gathered is essential to NOAA’s mission as it relates to precipitation chemistry monitoring community. Therefore for the above reasons no other site or organization can provide the services of this requirement. A thirty(30) month purchase order is planned. A justification for other than full and open competition (JOFOC) is on file. Reference number: NRMAC000-6-00001.