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

66 -- LCS UPGRADE SOL 8-P-5-16-86400 POC Contact, GP22L/Janice M. Stewart, 205-544-6093, or Teresa A. Foley, GP22/Contracting Officer NASA/MSFC plans to issue a Request for Offer (RFO) for LCS Upgrade-- NASA/MSFC intends to purchase from Cyber Systems, Inc., Anaheim, CA., the following items: (1) Digital Servo Controller, Dual-Channel (Cyber Systems Model 7030), Quantity 8 ea--(2) Chassis, Master; compatible with Item 1; capacity: 8 Channels, Quantity 2 ea.-- Specifications for the Digital Servo Controller/Dual Channel are: Control--loop Gain: 0 to 128, Rate Compensation: 0.5 to 100 Hz, Integrator Time Constant: 0.1 to 10 sec, Integrator ON/OFF control; Calibration--Excitation: 0 to 15 volts, Command Scaling: 0 to +/- 100%, Command Offset: 0 to +/- 100%, Full Scale Value: 0 to +/- 9999999, Calibration Equivalent: 0 to +/- 9999999, Scaling Factor, Feedback Bridge Balance: Yes/No, Invoke Shunt Calibration: Yes/No, Valve Balance: Yes/No; Limits--Inner Loop Error: 0 to 100%, Outer Loop Error: 0 to 100%, +/- Inner--Feedback Limit: 0 to +/- 100%, +/- Outer Feedback Limit: 0 to +/- 100% Fault Set: Yes/No, Fault Clear: Blank/Clear, Fault Limit Persistence: 1 to 200 msec; Tuning--Piston Area: 0.5:1 to 1:1, Noise Band: 0 to 100%, Oscillation Peak: 1 to 10, Phase Margin: 10 to 90 degrees, Random Spectrum: On/Off, Hydraulic Simulator: On/Off; Display--Command, Feedback, Loop Error, Valve Current; Control and Setup Functions adjustment: Available as remote and front panel selectable; Dither: 0 to 20% F.S. @400 Hz; Valve Drive Range: 15 mA or 40 mA; Tracking Error Fault: 0 to 15% F.S.; Absolute Error Adjust: 0 to 100%; Transducer Feedback Range--Low Level: 10 mV to 40 mV; High Level: 0 to 15 vdc; Proportional Gain Range--1:1,000; Input Attenuator Range: 0 to 100%; Static Offset Range: +/- 100%; Bandwidth Rate Compensation: 1 kHz; Auto Tune: On/Off; Dying Seconds Recorder with pre and post event time adjustment, 10 seconds record time at 1 millisecond record rate-- 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 janice.stewart@msfc.nasa.go is acceptable -- Note: This sole-source procurement, described is based on proprietary specifications -- 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 -- The solicitation and any related documents to this procurement will be available over the Internet -- These documents will be 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''. (0250)

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