On February 19,
the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) posted a presolicitation notice
for Gravity and GPS
Data Collection in Mongolia. Responses are due by 10:00 a.m. Central on
February 26.
NGA intends to
issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the acquisition of gravity data over the
country of Mongolia. Specifically, terrestrial data is needed as a
high-resolution data set for our Earth Gravity Model.
The
Contractor shall survey a minimum of 750 new gravity stations inside Mongolia.
The Contractor shall survey at a 5 km spacing along an approximately 1000 km
section of the Mongolian-Chinese border. The Minimum Bounding Rectangle
(MBR) is defined by a box whose corners are Latitude 49.86 Longitude 114.968 in
the northwest, Latitude 46.481 Longitude 114.968 in the southwest, Latiude
49.86 Longitude 120.098 in the northeast, and Latitude 46.481 Longitude 120.098
in the southeast. The Contractor shall survey to a distance of 25 km from the
Chinese border into Mongolia. The Contractor shall simultaneously collect
precise GPS locations and both orthometric and ellipsoidal heights.
The
Contractor shall obtain all necessary permissions from the Mongolian government
such as the General Authority of Border Protection Forces and the Ministry of
Defense.
The total anticipated period of performance is 1 base year plus 2 option years. The solicitation will be issued under full and open competition. The applicable NAICS code is 541360 and the Product Service Code is T002; size standard is $16.5M.
Full information is available here.
Source: SAM
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