Award notice, first published as presolicitation
Visibility Sensors
6973GH-25-R-00099
Federal Aviation Administration, 6973GH Franchise Acquisition SVCS. Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing.
Awarded
$695,570.00 on the award notice, June 9, 2025, contract 6973GH-25-C-00134
Description
As published on SAM.gov.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has awarded a contract to Vaisala, Inc., Louisville, CO for the acquisition of Visibility Sensors in support of PC-based Runway Visual Range (PC-RVR) system. The contract was awarded as a one-time, fixed price contract. This equipment is only known to be available from Vaisala Inc., as they hold the proprietary data rights.
A market survey (6973GH-25-MS-10935) was posted to the SAM.gov web site on February 7, 2025. No responses were received in response to the market survey to indicate other sources are available for these visibility sensors. Additionally, a Notice of Intent to Single Source (6973GH-25-R-00099) was posted to the SAM.gov web site on March 19, 2025. Contract 6973GH-25-C-00134 was awarded on June 9, 2025 to Vaisala, Inc. for a total value of $695,570.00. This announcement is for information purposes only, not a request for proposals.
Point of Contact: Connie Houpt, connie.m.houpt@faa.gov.
The contract, on USAspending
Federal procurement data the awarding office reported to FPDS, matched to this solicitation by its number.
- Recipient
- Vaisala Inc.
- UEI
- FCMPZKYCYKH5
- CAGE
- 63653
- Vendor location
- Louisville, CO
- Contract
- 6973GH25C00134, definitive contract
- Obligated
- $890,441.00
- Actions
- 5 between June 6, 2025 and December 3, 2025
- Competition
- Not Competed, 1 offer received
- Set-aside reported
- No Set Aside Used.
- Described as
- Assets in Support of the NAS Visibility Sensors
- Match
- award number 6973GH25C00134 equals the contract number; same awarding office 6973GH (high confidence)
- Record
- USAspending award page
Publications
Every notice SAM.gov issued under this solicitation number, oldest first. Each is a separate record on SAM.
Points of contact
- Connie Houptconnie.m.houpt@faa.gov
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