NASA Procurement Office, Code DA00, Stennis Space Center, MS 39529-6000

Z -- REPAIR BASCULE BRIDGE CONTROLS Sol RFO 13-SSC-96-0-3. Due 030796. Contact Point, Susan Dupuis, 601/688-3683, Contracting Officer, Rebecca S. Dubuisson, 601/688-1636. NASA/SSC intends to issue a Request for Offer (RFO) for the Repair Bascule Bridge Controls. The project consists of all labor, materials, and equipment required to remove the existing controls system and replace it with a new electronic system. The work also includes four (4) each forty (40) horsepower electric motors and some HVAC work on the control room. The contractor will be required to install the hardware and software and maintain it in a working condition for a one-year warranty period. All onside work shall be completed in a sixty (60) calendar shut down of the bridge with all materials being in place before bridge shut down occurs. The specification and drawings will be mailed under separate cover to those firms requesting copies. This procurement is 100% set-aside for Small Business Concerns. The SIC for this procurement is 1731. Size standard $7.0M for the past three years. The estimated cost of this project is between $500,000 and $1,000,000. This solicitation will be released via the NASA Acquisition Internet Service (NAIS). All potential offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of the solicitation with hardcopies being made available on request, but the closing date will be the same as that required for the NAIS released solicitation. It shall be the responsibility of each offeror to monitor NAIS for solicitation releases as the solicitation will be released as soon as practicable whether prior or subsequent to February 22, 1996. Transmission of requests by internet E-mail to s.dupuis@ssc.nasa.gov or by facsimile at 601-688-1141 are acceptable. Reference RFP 13-SSC-96-0-3. All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency. 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, 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, Mr. Mark Craig at 601-688-2123. 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. (043)

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