NASA, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Procurement Office, Marshall Space Flight Center, AL 35812

K -- ABS UPGRADE SOL 8-W-5-21-38750 POC Contact Patrick W. Rasco, GP26C, 205-544-9416/Contract Specialist, or Jane Maples, GP25, 205-544-0344/Contracting Officer NASA/MSFC plans to issue a Request for Offer (RFO) for an Acrylonitrile Butabiene Styrene (ABS) Upgrade for MSFC's Statasys fused deposition modeler (FDM) system -- The RFO will be released to Stratasys, Inc., 14950 Martin Drive, Eden Prairie, MN 55344-2019 -- The authority for this procurement is 10 U.S.C. 2304(C)(1), because Stratasys, Inc., is the sole designer and vendor of the ABS -- This upgrade will allow the existing system use of the ABS Engineering Thermoplastic in building 3D prototype models by the FDM1500 -- The upgrade will include the following: An ABS modeling head (attachable to the FDM) -- Second spool delivery system -- Twin tip liquefier for high temperature processing -- Data cartridges and accessories -- Support removal software -- This procurement is being conducted under the NASA/MSFC MidRange Pilot Test Program approved by the Office of Federal Procurement Policy on April 16, 1993 -- Requests for copies of the RFO must be submitted in writing -- Transmission by facsimile to 205-544-9080 or by Internet e- mail to patrick.rasco@msfc.nasa.gov is acceptable -- Interested firms have 15 days from the publication date of the synopsis to submit their qualifications/ capabilities in the critical areas listed above, along with a request for a copy of the solicitation -- Such qualifications/capabilities will be used solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis -- Responses received after the 15 days or without the required information will be considered nonresponsive to the synopsis and will not be considered -- Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice -- A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government -- Documents related to this procurement are available over the Internet -- The documents are in ASCII format and reside on a World-Wide Web (WWW) server, which may be accessed using client browsers, such as, MOSAIC -- The WWW address, or URL, of the MSFC Procurement home page is: ''http://procure.msfc.nasa.gov''. (0025)

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