Request for Information (RFI) - NOAA Requirement CIMS PACS/VSS
Every reason behind the verdict rather than the headline one — which of your certifications match, how much runway is left, whether the work is your size, and what we would need to know to sharpen it.
Solicitation documents
The requirements that decide a bid — bonding, clearances, experience minimums, page limits — live in the attachments, not in the notice above. Start a free trial to upload them and have them read.
Draft the paperwork
Written against this notice and what you have told us about your company. Anything we do not know is marked [NEEDS INPUT] in the draft rather than guessed at — read it before you send it. Federal notices routinely put the real requirement in an attachment; adding the documents above makes every one of these materially better.
Start a free trial to draft these. Nothing is sent to an agency on your behalf, ever — you get a document to review, edit and submit yourself.
Read straight from the solicitation documents: the bonding, clearances, insurance minimums, experience thresholds and deadlines that decide whether you can bid at all — before you write a word.
A complete draft response — capability statement, relevant past performance, business size and socioeconomic status, and answers to the agency's specific questions.
Genuine ambiguities and requirements that disadvantage a smaller bidder, drafted as questions you can submit before the Q&A deadline.
Which of your prior awards best match this requirement, and draft write-ups in the format the agency asked for.
Solicitation details
- Solicitation number
- REQUIREMENTS-26-3295
- Notice type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- Set-aside
- No Set aside used
- Posted
- 2026-10-06
- Response deadline
- Oct 21, 2026, 5:00 PM UTC
- Place of performance
- Silver Spring, MD
- Contracting contact
- jeremy.johnson@noaa.gov
Market intelligence
Comparable awards under NAICS at this agency — the incumbent, what they were paid, when their period of performance ends, and the real pricing distribution rather than the headline number. From public federal award records.
Statement of work, as posted
Contact
- Point of contact
- Jeremy Johnson
- Role
- not stated on this notice — SAM publishes a role for only about 5% of them, so this may be a contract specialist rather than the contracting officer
- jeremy.johnson@noaa.gov
- Secondary
- alexandra.moy@noaa.gov
Ambiguities and requirements worth clarifying, written as questions you can send before the deadline.
Open emailIntroduce your firm against this requirement for a Sources Sought or market research notice.
Open emailAsk for attachments, drawings or specifications referenced in the notice but not posted.
Open emailAsk to be listed as an interested vendor so other bidders can find you for teaming.
Open emailOpens in your own mail client, addressed and with a subject line — you write the message. GovSprint never sends anything on your behalf.
Emails open in your mail client and are sent from your address, so the reply comes back to you and the exchange stays yours. Confirm the correct channel and any question deadline on the notice before sending — many solicitations require questions in a specific way.