Radiometers

Trade Agreement: WTO-AGP/NAFTA/AIT/Canada FTAs with Peru/Colombia/Panama Tendering Procedures: Generally only one firm has been invited to bid Non-Competitive Procurement Strategy: Exclusive Rights Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No Vendor Name and Address: Radiometrics Corporation 2840 Wilderness Place, Unit G Boulder Colorado United States 80301 Nature of Requirements:

Radiometers

K3D42-170407/A Lopez, Maria Telephone No. - (905) 615-2071 ( ) Fax No. - (905) 615-2060 ( )

1. Advance Contract Award Notice (ACAN) An ACAN is a public notice indicating to the supplier community that a department or agency intends to award a contract for goods, services or construction to a pre-identified supplier, thereby allowing other suppliers to signal their interest in bidding, by submitting a statement of capabilities. If no supplier submits a statement of capabilities that meets the requirements set out in the ACAN, on or before the closing date stated in the ACAN, the contracting officer may then proceed with the award to the pre-identified supplier. 2. Definition of the requirement The Climate Research Division(CRD) of Environment and Climate Change Canada has a requirement for the supply of two dual polarized, single channel, passive microwave radiometers to be used for deriving information/products used to generate new knowledge on cold climate processes and cryosphere/climate interactions, which include developing and validating techniques to remotely estimate soil, snow, sea and lake ice parameters (soil moisture, soil freeze/thaw state, snow water equivalent, ice thickness/type) from passive microwave satellite, airborne, and surface based radiometer brightness temperatures. These derived parameters and raw brightness temperatures are also used as both data inputs and validation for radiative transfer models, global climate models and land surface dataassimilation schemes. One passive microwave unit must have a centre frequency of 19 GHz, while the other unit must have a centre frequency of 36.5 GHz. Each unit must come as a stand-alone system with an integrated radiometer receiver/antenna.

3. Criteria for assessment of the Statement of Capabilities (Minimum Essential Requirements)

Any interested supplier must demonstrate by way of a statement of capabilities that its equipment meets the following requirements:

- Radiometers must each weigh less than 10 kg - Radiometers must each have a dimension of less than 55 cm long x 23 cm wide x 23 cm high - Radiometers must be dual polarized - vertical and horizontal - Have an effective radio frequency bandwidth of