NOAA Sources Sought: Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC) Contract 5-Year IDIQ Recompete

Notice ID: ACQ-NC1075-24-0075

This EPIC contract shall provide all scientific and technical support services supporting activities outlined in this PWS. The contract will be managed by NOAA’s Weather Program Office (WPO) within NOAA’s Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR or NOAA research) line office.

The objective of this contract is to make continuous progress building upon the strategic outcomes achieved in past performance from activities associated with the EPIC Program, and to develop a new strategic implementation plan for defining success of the EPIC, including:

1. Maintenance and expansion of EPIC.
2. Enabling strong collaboration with the Earth Sciences community to nurture a highly inclusive and diverse modeling community of practice across the Weather Enterprise.
3. Maintenance and expansion of a publicly accessible end-to-end testing and development environment on the cloud, from pre- to post-processing, for core Earth system model applications.
4. Demonstrate EPIC success by bringing in innovations to improve Weather and Climate model performance.

The scope for maintaining EPIC includes but is not limited to the following activities:

• Project management,
• Infrastructure and software engineering,
• Codebase support,
• Code management,
• Systems integration,
• Data management,
• Tracking NWP performance and skill improvement,
• Advanced user support,
• Community and continuous stakeholder engagement.

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