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

A -- TIME DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM SOL 8-1-4-EO-92603 POC Contact Pamela White, GP24-V, 205-544-0337/Contract Specialist, or Elaine W. Hamner, GP24/Contracting Officer NASA/MSFC plans to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a Time Distribution System (TDS) -- The TDS shall support acquisition, generation and distribution of timing signals at MSFC's Huntsville Operations Support Center (HOSC) -- The TDS shall consist of redundant time processors that provide fail-safe operational support -- Both time processors shall be automatically maintained at the same operator selectable configuration -- The TDS shall send health and status messages to a system printer and an external System Monitor and Control (SMAC) system -- The TDS shall provide health and status message displays, operator configuration control, and external control from the SMAC -- The TDS shall decode a minimum of four (4) independent IRIG-B input timing signals -- The TDS shall generate and output a minimum of eleven (11) IRIG-B timing signals -- The TDS shall contain redundant Global Positioning System (GPS) Receivers that decodes Universal Coordinated Time (UCT) -- The TDS shall control six (6) groups of existing time displays that utilize Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) interfaces -- The TDS shall also control a minimum of 1024 addressable time displays that utilize redundant RS-485 or similar communications circuits -- A minimum of two (2) addressable time display units shall be provided -- The addressable time display units shall support TDS controllable alpha-numeric labels that indicate the type of time that is currently being displayed -- The TDS shall multicast timing information on an EtherNet and FDDI Local Area Network (LAN) -- The TDS shall support input and output timing signals with formats of +/- Days, Hours, Minutes, and Seconds -- The TDS shall provide a ten-millisecond resolution (or accuracy) in the generated IRIG output timing signals -- The TDS shall be contained in one (1) equipment rack which shall also be provided -- A demonstration and acceptance of all capabilities shall be conducted at MSFC -- FIPS-PUB 1-2, 16-1, 17-1, and 107 applicable as appropriate -- Requests for copies of the RFP must be submitted in writing -- Transmission by facsimile to 205-544-9080 or by Internet e-mail to pamela.white@msfc.nasa.gov is acceptable -- RFP 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 RFP -- This procurement is a Total Small Business Set-Aside -- An ombudsman has been appointed to hear concerns from offerors, potential offerors, and contractors during the preaward and postaward phases of this acquisition -- The purpose of the ombudsman is not to diminish the authority of the contracting officer, the Source Evaluation Board, or the selection official, but to communicate concerns, issues, disagreements, and recommendations of interested parties to the appropriate Government personnel and to work to resolve them -- When requested, the ombudsman will maintain strict confidentiality as to the source of the concern -- The ombudsman does not participate in the evaluation of proposals, the source selection process, or the adjudication of formal contract disputes -- Interested parties are invited to call the installation ombudsman, W.H. Hallisey at 205-544-0092 -- Concerns, issues, disagreements, and recommendations which cannot be resolved at the installation may be referred to the NASA ombudsman, Thomas S. Luedtke at 202-358-2090 -- The solicitation and any documents related to this procurement will be available over the Internet -- These documents 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''. (0017)

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