NASA, Johnson Space Center, BH2, Houston, TX 77058

J -- SPECIAL INSTRUMENTS LABORATORY (SIL) SUPPORT SOL 9-BH2-11-6-02P DUE 041596 POC Contract Specialist: Cindy Nebrig, (713) 483-8511 Contract Officer: Virginia M. Thompson, (713) 483-8526 NASA/JSC plans to issue a Request for Offer (RFO) for Special Instruments Laboratory (SIL) Support. The Contractor shall perform modification, repair and maintenance of training manned aircraft and spacecraft interface instrumentation. Such equipment includes hand controllers, display devices, flight attitude indica- tors, and similar devices used on NASA's Shuttle Training Aircrafts and training simulation facilities onsite at NASA Johnson Space Center and Ellington Field in Houston, Texas. The task of main- taining these instruments shall include provisioning and maintaining a 5-year stock inventory of critical parts. The Request for Offer contemplates a firm-fixed-price contract with a 1-year basic period and four 1-year priced options. This procurement is being conducted under the NASA/JSC MidRange Pilot Test Program approved by the Office of Federal Procurement Policy on April 16, 1993. -- This procurement is a total small business set-aside. All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency. Ombudsman An ombudsman has been appointed to hear concerns from offerors and potential offerors 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 ajudication of formal contract disputes. Interested parties are invited to call the installation ombudsman, Susan H. Garman at 713-483-0490. Concerns, issues, and disagreements which cannot be resolved at the installation may be referred to the NASA ombudsman, Tom Luedtke at 202-358-2090. -- The solicitation and any documents related to this procurement will be available over the Internet -- These documents will be in RTF format and will reside on a World-Wide Web (WWW) server, which may be accessed using client browsers, such as, MOSAIC or NETSCAPE -- The WWW address, or URL, of the JSC Procurement home page is: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/bd2/ -- It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor this site for solicitation release. Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of the solicitation. Hard copies may be obtained from the JSC Industry Assistance Office via phone 713-483-4511 or fax 713-483-4326. The closing date shall be the same as the solicitation released on the Internet. -- The RFO will be released on or about April 15, 1996. A preproposal conference and site tour are anticipated. -- If there are any questions, the contracting specialist may be contact via E-mail at cnebrig@ba1.jsc.nasa.gov or by phone at (713) 483-8511 or the contracting officer may be contacted by phone at (713) 483-8526. (0074)

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