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

70 -- SOFTWARE SOL 8-P-5-21-35463 POC Contact Kathy Huskey, GP26D/Contract Specialist, 205-961-0222, or Jane Maples, GP25/Contracting Officer NASA/MSFC plans to issue a Request for Offer (RFO) for ProCAST Casting Simulation Code -- NASA/MSFC intends to purchase from UES, Inc. the following item: Item 1, perpetual license of ProCAST Code for Silicon Graphics Indigo 2 workstation -- This license must include the following features: -- (1) Base, (2) Radiation, (3) Fluids, (4) Stress, (5) Inverse and (6) Micromodeling -- 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 205-544-9081 or by Internet e-mail to kathy.huskey@msfc.nasa.gov is acceptable -- Note: This sole-source procurement, described is based on proprietary specifications, system compatability requirements, and predominant experience -- Interested firms have 15 days from the publication date of this synopsis to submit their qualifications/capabilities in the critical areas mentioned 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 -- A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract, on a full and open competitive basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government -- Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice RFO will be released on or about 15 days after publication in the Commerce Business Daily (CBD) -- Firm date for receipt of offers will be stated in the RFO -- 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''. (0075)

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