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56 -- INSTALLATION OF ELECTRICAL SUB-STATION SOL 1-075-DS1-1260 DUE 022296 POC Gale Poulson, Buyer, (804) 864-2433. Category 56 -- Installation of Electrical Sub-Station--SOL 1-075-DS1.1260 DUE 2/22/96 POC Evangeline G. Poulson 804-864-2433, email e.g.poulson@larc.nasa.gov. This project includes installation of a 500 KVA substation and a pre-engineered building adjacent to Building, 1161. Offerors may visit the job site at 10:00 a.m. on February 16, 1996. Offerors will meet in Building 1195A, Room 160, West Area, from there, a NASA representative will accompany offerors to the job site. Offerors planning to attend the job site visit should phone Gale Poulson at 804-864-2433 prior to that date to ensure that an RFQ is available for them. This note is to advise that a written Request for Quotation (RFQ) is available as described below. The proposed contract is 100 percent set aside for small business concerns. This procurement is being conducted under the Simplified Acquisition Procedures. All offers received from small businesses will be considered for award. Offerors must request a copy of the complete solicitation in order to submit a responsive offer. Award will be made to the responsive, responsible offeror within an acceptable delivery schedule and the lowest overall price. Evaluations will be per line item, and award will be for the lowest aggregate cost to the Government. Award is anticipated within 7 days of the date quotes are due. Offerors attending the job site visit will be given the RFQ at that time. Otherwise, the RFQ will be mailed to the offeror upon receipt of a written request. Written requests must be received within 10 days of the publication date of this synopsis and must include the solicitation number and contact's name in the address. Telephonic requests will not be honored. 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 ombudsmanis 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 Belinda Adams at 804-864-8989. Concerns, issues, disagreements, and recommendations which cannot be resolved at the installation may be referred to the NASA ombudsman Tom Luedtke at 202-358-2090. (0038)

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