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The United States Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Eastern Acquisition Division (EAD) intends to solicit, negotiate and award on a sole source basis a purchase order with RM Young Company for the procurement of 262 RM Young Anemometers for the National Weather Service (NWS), National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) at Stennis Space Center, MS. The Government intends to utilize the authority under the Revolutionary Federal Acquisition Regulation Overhaul (RFO) 6.103-1, Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services will satisfy agency requirements, unless, as a result of this announcement, acceptable responses to this notice are received and a determination is made by the Government to issue a competitive solicitation. The Government intends to award a purchase order to RM Young Company for the procurement of proprietary Anemometers for the NWS, NDBC Division based on their compatibility in form, fit and function with already existing systems. The NAICS code for this requirement is 334519. Sole Source Justification The Self-Containted Ocean Observations Payload (SCOOP) and the Coastal-Marine Automated Network (CMAN) stations were designed around the selection of the R.M. Young propeller anemometers. The anemometers must mount on a standard one-inch pipe. The SCOOP and CMAN data acquisition systems have firmware algorithms and constants to convert the propeller anemometer outputs to wind speed and wind direction. The wind direction is transmitted by a 10K ohm precision conductive potentiometer. With a constant voltage applied to the potentiometer, the output signal is an analog voltage directly proportional to wind direction angle. The RM Young propeller wind monitors technology uses magnetic induction for measuring wind speed which requires no energy input. The magnetic induction on the model 05108 Wind Monitors produces a wind speed signal in the form of an AC sine wave signal that reflects an output of 0.166 m/s per Hz signal. Further, no power is required to be provided to the Wind Monitor to obtain the wind speed. Essentially you get the wind speed for free with respect to power requirements. Further, the directional portion of the sensor only requires 0.6mW of power. That is 100 times less power requirement than an ultrasonic anemometer. This low power wind measurement is imperative in a battery-operated remote buoy station. The 05108 anemometer has ceramic bearings that increase its reliability where the sensor may be deployed for more than a year at a time. The propeller anemometer also provides for the measurement of wind gusts over 100 m/s where no ultrasonic anemometer technology can currently measure in that range. The NDBC helped develop the R.M. Young propeller anemometer which is now considered the industry standard. Further, the R.M. Young Company is willing to work with all customers in developing cables, connectors, and mounts that meet their needs. No other propeller an…

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