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58 -- VIDEO DISTRIBUTION SOL 1-074-GMB.4299 DUE 031896 POC Artistine Lethcoe-Reid, Buyer, (804) 864-2432. Category 58 -- Video Distribution -- SOL 1-074-GMB.4299 DUE 3-18-96 POC Artistine R. Lethcoe-Reid 804-864-2432. NASA Langley Research Center intends to procure the following: Quantity 1 each video mixer system, which is required to combine high-resolution video images from an Evans & Sutherland (E&S) Computer Generated Image (CGI) system and a Silicon Graphics computer into a composite image. The E&S CGI generates the background image and the Silicon Graphics computer generates the foreground image. The video mixer shall, as a minimum, support: 1) E&S CGI's interlaced analog Red, Green, Blue, Horizontal, and Vertical Sync (RGBHV) video input, 2) Silicon Graphics's non-interlace analog Red, Green, and Blue (RGB) sync on green video input, 3) E&S proprietary ''field-extend'', 4) chroma key, luminance key, or weighted sum as the techniques used to combine one computer image with another, 5) asynchronous video image mixing without genlock, 6) automatic video sync to video images from 320x200 to 1280x1024 pixels resolution (interlaced and non-interlaced), 7) controls to adjust color, size, contrast, brightness, etc. of the combined output image, 8) non-volatile memory to store mixer configuration data, and 9) remote control of mixer functions via RS232 port. The video content of the background and foreground images will be updated up to sixty times per second. The video mixer shall be able to keep up with background and foreground rate of video content change without creating video anomalies (such as stepping or tearing) to the combined video output image. Off-site support in the form of a phone hotline shall be provided for a period of 3 months after delivery. Note: This notice constitutes a complete Request for Quotations (RFQ). No additional RFQ is available. This procurement is being conducted under the Simplified Acquisition Procedures. This is a commercial item, see FAR Part 12. The proposed contract is 100 percent set aside for small business concerns. Quotes may be mailed to NASA Langley Research Center, Mail Stop 138, Hampton, VA 23681-0001, or faxed to 804-864-6131, solicitation number must be cited in either case. The quote must: be for the item(s) described above, contain a CERTIFICATION that the offeror is a small, small disadvantaged, or small woman-owned business, be FOB destination to this Center, include the proposed delivery schedule and discount/payment terms and warranty duration (if applicable), and be signed by an authorized company representative. Quotes are due by 3:00 p.m. local time on 3-18-96. All timely quotes received from small businesses will be considered, and award will be made to the responsive, responsible offeror(s) with the lowest overall price and acceptable delivery schedule. Quotes must include adequate information and submittals to determine whether the proposed item(s) will meet the requirement described above. Award(s) will be for the best value offered to the government, with technical capabilities of the proposed item(s) and price considered essentially equal factors. Offerors must include their taxpayer identification number (TIN). Award is anticipated within 7 days of the date quotes are due. 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 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. Before consulting with any ombudsman, interested parties must try to resolve their concerns with the contract specialist or the contracting officer. DO NOT CALL THE OMBUDSMAN FOR SOLICITATION REQUESTS/INFORMATION. 2 (0059)

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