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

66 -- INSTRUMENTS AND LABORATORY EQUIPMENT SOL 8-W-5-21-52953 POC Contact Patricia S. Fundum, GP22D/Contracting Officer NASA/MSFC plans to issue a Request for Offer (RFO) for a NETZSCH INSTRUMENTS Dilatometer -- NASA/MSFC intends to purchase from NETZSCH INSTRUMENTS, Inc., the following items: ITEM 1 = (Quantity of one system) Dual Dilatometer, 0.625 nm sensitivity, -150-degrees to 750-degrees Celcius range, 2 mm stroke, 0-25 mm and 25-50 mm sample lengths, NETZSCH PART NUMBER 402 ED/3/E, which includes the following: (a) Base plate with guide rails, NETZSCH PART NUMBER 6.216.0-01; (b) Measuring head, NETZSCH PART NUMBER 6.216.0-02; (c) Low temperature tube furnace, -150-degrees to 750-degrees Celcius, NETZSCH PART NUMBER 6.216.0-30; (d) Furnace guide carriage, NETZSCH PART NUMBER 6.214.3-08.0; (e) Tube sample support, quartz, NETZSCH PART NUMBER 6.216.0-07+E; (f) Set of scanning rods, quartz, 25 mm, NETZSCH PART NUMBER 6.216.0-04; (g) System controller, NETZSCH PART NUMBER 1.850.01; (h) Furnace power supply, NETZSCH PART NUMBER 1.851.01; (i) Compensation amplifier, NETZSCH PART NUMBER 1.202.5; (j) Basic software package for data acquisition storage and evaluation, NETZSCH PART NUMBER SW/DIL/531.01; (k) complete computer system including 486 microprocessor, 4 Mb RAM, 14-inch VGA monitor, 3.5-inch floppy drive, and 240 Mb hard drive, NETZSCH PART NUMBER C486-240; (l) HTB controller for computer-system interface, NETZSCH PART NUMBER 1.400.60-06; (m) IEEE system interface controller, NETZSCH PART NUMBER 1.400.60-02; (n) color deskjet printer/plotter, NETZSCH PART NUMBER DJ-02C; -- ITEM 2 -- (Quantity of one) Cooling Gas Supply, NETZSCH PART NUMBER 6.351.1; -- ITEM 3 -- (Quantity of one) Water circulation cooling station, NETZSCH PART NUMBER NI-110B-DIL; -- ITEM 4 -- (Quantity of one) Calibration standard, Quartz, NETZSCH PART NUMBER 6.216.0-91.0; -- ITEM 5 -- (Quantity of one) Standard Sample, Tungsten, NETZSCH PART NUMBER 6.216.0-91.6; -- ITEM 6 -- (Quantity of one) Standard sample, Quartz, NETZSCH PART NUMBER 6.216.0-91.1; -- ITEM 7 -- (Quantity of one) Standard sample, Sapphire, NETZSCH PART NUMBER 6.216.0-91.9; -- ITEM 8 -- (Quantity of one) Precision surface grinding machine for dilatometer specimens, NETZSCH PART NUMBER 6.440.0. -- 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 205-544-8436 or by Internet e-mail to patricia.fundum@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''. (0208)

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