Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO), BMDO/DCT, 7100 Defense Pentagon, Room 1E1019, Washington DC 20301-7100

A -- SOLAR ARRAY TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION FOR THE BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE ORGANIZATION SOL HQ0006-96-R-0006 POC POC: Karen Byrd, (703) 693-1544, CBD Reference Number: BMDO 96-04. The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) plans to award a sole source contract, Reference Number BMDO 96-04, to Able Engineering Company (AEC), 93 Castilian Drive, Goleta, CA 93117-3026, on or about April 30, 1996. This effort is for the design, fabrication, test, integration and launch support of the Solar Concentrator Array with Refractive Linear Element Technology (SCARLET) on the NASA (Jet Propulsion Laboratory - JPL) New Millennium Program (NMP) first spacecraft flight to be launched in early calendar year 1998. The purpose of this effort is to demonstrate the performance of SCARLET technology as it relates to future BMDO satellites. AEC is the sole designer and developer of the advanced solar cell array which provides solar power for space craft, and has an exclusive agreement with the manufacturer of the patented solar concentrator upon which the solar cell and panel is dependent. This contract will be Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee, with a thirty-three month period of performance. BMDO intends to award a sole source contract on the basis that AEC is the sole designer and developer of the advanced solar cell array and award to any other source would likely result in substantial duplication of cost to the Government not expected to be recovered through competition, and award to any other source would likely result in unacceptable delays in meeting the BMDO requirements. See Numbered Note(s): 22. (0334)

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