Attn: Willie E. Evans, Contracting Officer, Naval Information Systems Management Center, Bldg 176, 4th Floor, Code 023, Washington Navy Yard, Washington DC 20374-5070

D -- REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL ON SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING SUPPORT SERVICES, CHINA LAKE SOL N68939-95-R-0003 DUE 111395 POC Contract Specialists, Sandra Royal, (202) 433-4243, Twana Harper, (202) 433-3390, Contracting Officer, Willie E. Evans (202) 433-6732 The Naval Information Systems Management Center (NISMC) will issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for Scientific and Engineering Support Services for the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWPNS), China Lake, CA. The RFP will be released and available to vendors on the NISMC Bulletin Board System on or about 13 September 1995. This procurement will be a full and open competition with a mandatory 15% small or small disadvantaged business (SDB) subcontracting requirement (5% mandatory for SDBs and 5% mandatory for women-owned small businesses). The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code for this procurement is 7379, Computer Related Services Not Elsewhere Classified. The evaluation criteria will include Past Performance. This acquisition will provide FIP related scientific and engineering support services and materials necessary to the NAWCWPNS research, development, test, evaluation, in-service engineering, and range maintenance and operation mission. The RFP and related documents will only be distributed through the NISMC Bulletin Board System (BBS). Hardcopies will not be available. Only those documents that cannot be uploaded to the bulletin board will be mailed to vendors (one copy per company). Interested parties who have submitted written requests to the Contracting Officer at the above address to be on the bidder's mailing list will be mailed documents not available on the BBS. NO TELEPHONE REQUESTS WILL BE ACCEPTED. The request shall include your business name, address, telephone number, fax number, if any, point of contact and the RFP number (N68939-95-R- 0003). Small businesses, small disadvantaged businesses women- owned small businesses and 8(a) contractors shall identify themselves by including type of small business concern representation. The bulletin board telephone number for downloading the RFP is (202) 433-3405. Vendors are able to dial-in access to the BBS and an individual can self-register themselves in the data base (answer questions on name, password, and other details). To access, set your communication package to an asynchronous, ASCII (VT100) mode, with 8 bits, no parity, 1 stop bit (8N1) 14, 4K bps Baud rate modems. Download protocols supported by the BBS include: XMODEM, XMODEM/CRC, XMODEM1K, YMODEM, ZMODEM, KERMIT, and ASCII. The RFP is in two formats, ASCII and Word 6.0, with cost files and the bidders' mailing list in Lotus 1-2-3, release 4. The ASCII and Word 6.0 versions contain the same information but, due to the limitations of ASCII, bolding and underlining are not supported in the ASCII files. All files are in a self-extracting, zipped form and end with an ''EXE'' extension. If files do not self-extract, a problem has occurred in the file download. The usual solution is to try to download it again. To restore the file to its original size, just type in the download file's DOS name without the ''EXE'' extension. If problems are encountered in downloading the RFP, please contact Mr. Jack Rymer at (202) 433-4535. The names and addresses of all interested parties requesting to be on the bidder's mailing list will be distributed with the document. A pre-proposal conference is anticipated during the last week of September 1995 or first week of October 1995. Specifics to be announced in the RFP. (0236)

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