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The AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF | FOREST SERVICE has issued a Tender notice for the procurement of a Notice of Intent to Sole Source Raws Portable Weather Station Upgrades for Hoosier National Forest in the USA. This Tender notice was published on 04 Aug 2026 and is scheduled to close on 18 Aug 2026, with an estimated Tender value of Refer Document. Interested bidders can access detailed Tender information, eligibility criteria, and complete bidding documents by referencing TOT Ref No. 146492827, while the tender notice number is 1175661 and Registering on the platform.
Procurement Summary
Country: USA
Summary: Notice of Intent to Sole Source Raws Portable Weather Station Upgrades for Hoosier National Forest
Deadline: 18 Aug 2026
Posting Date: 04 Aug 2026
Other Information
Notice Type: Tender
TOT Ref.No.: 146492827
Document Ref. No.: 1175661
Competition: ICB
Financier: Self Financed
Purchaser Ownership: Public
Tender Value: Refer Document
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In accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Revolutionary FAR Overhaul (RFO) 13.101(b), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service, Hoosier National Forest, intends to award a sole-source, firm-fixed-price purchase order to FTS (Forest Technology Systems), an AEM Subsidiary, located at 1065 Henry Eng Place, Langford, BC Canada, V9B 6B2. The total estimated contract value is $16, 900.00.
This procurement is for a critical hardware and structural upgrade for two (2) active Remote Automatic Weather Stations (RAWS) Portables utilized for fire management operations:
IIC NORTH PORTABLE (NESDIS ID: FC101320)
IIC SOUTH PORTABLE (NESDIS ID: FC100056)
The upgrade involves procuring proprietary Quick Deploy (QD2) structural enclosures, tripod legs, 20W solar panels, mounting brackets, and SDI-WS-RMY-QD wind speed/direction sensors. This action is required to prevent water intrusion into internal electronics due to cracked enclosures and to ensure data stream accuracy for decision support during prescribed fires and wildfire response.
JUSTIFICATION FOR OTHER THAN FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION
An audit of the active Wildland Fire Management Information (WFMI) Weather system database confirms that the current field assets operate entirely on the proprietary FTS F6 Data Collection Platform (DCP) infrastructure and G6 QD transmitters. FTS is the sole designer, manufacturer, and distributor of the QD2 ecosystem components. No other meteorological equipment manufacturer produces structural enclosures, mounting bars, or sensor couplings that are physically or technologically compatible with this specific hardware architecture. Introducing third-party equipment would cause severe physical mismatching, fail to protect internal electronics, compromise data transmission integrity required for fire modeling, and void the existing hardware configuration.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
This notice is NOT a request for competitive quotes/propos...
Notice ID: 1175661
Department/Ind. Agency: agriculture, department of
Sub-tier: forest service
Office: usda-fs, csa east 6
Product Service Code: 6660 - meteorological instruments and apparatus
NAICS Code: 541511 - Custom Computer Programming Services
Inactive Dates: sep 02, 2026
Inactive Policy: 15 days after response date
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