B -- Air Quality Forecasting - Model Development

The Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Eastern Administrative Support Center (EASC) intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with Environmental Programs, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, MCNC for the development and application of an air quality forcasting model for the Environmental Protection Agency. The statutory authority for this action is 10 U.S.C 2304(c)(1). Environmental Programs has unique advanced modeling techniques to produce ozone forecasts in the United States. The applicable NAICS code is 541620.