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J -- PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE AND EMERGENCY SERVICE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE SOL RFO3-044646 DUE 041696 POC Rita Homady, Contracting Officer, (216) 433-2753, MS 500-306 Internet E-Mail Rita.A.Homady@lerc.nasa.gov. Service contract for preventive maintenance and emergency repair for the following instruments at the NASA Lewis Research Center: (1) JEOL 840A Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Serial No. 130013-884, including probe current detector, and water chiller; (2) JEOL 840A SEM, Serial No. 130029-969, including frame image store, large load lock, probe current detector, and digital image archiving system; (3) JEOL 840A SEM, Serial No. 130036-999, including frame image store and probe current detector; (4) JEOL 6100 SEM, Serial No. 111058-202, including frame image store, computer interface, and probe current detector; and (5) JEOL 6400 SEM, Serial No. 150076-312 with water chiller. The Contractor shall provide two (2) preventive maintenance services at approximately six (6) month intervals to assure that guaranteed performance and long term reliability are achieved from all JEOL supplied equipment, and emergency service whenever required for all problems except those caused by misuse or accident. All service shall be conducted between the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding Government Holidays. All services shall be performed by competent factory-trained service engineers. Routine maintenance of filaments, apertures, and user accessible vacuum O-rings will be the responsibility of the Government. Also, when it is in the best interest of the Government, the Government will provide other maintenance and repair operations under directions of the Contractor. The Contractor shall provide all necessary replacement parts with the exception of filaments, apertures, scintillators, fluorescent screens, detectors, leaded glass, CRT screens, Wehnelt assemblies, specimen holders, specimen exchange tools, and consumables. The basic period of performance will be 12 months with four 12-month option periods. This procurement is being conducted under the NASA Midrange Pilot Test Program approved by the Office of Federal Procurement Policy on April 16, 1993. Any concerns or issues relative to this procurement should be addressed to the Contracting Officer identified above. However, an ombudsman has also been appointed to hear concerns from offerors, potential offerors and contractors if necessary. Interested parties may call the installation ombudsman, Dr. Julian Earls, at (216) 433-3014. 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. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. This solicitation and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 90-32. The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code for this acquisition is 7699. The Small Business Size Standard is $3.5M/yr. The following provisions apply to this acquisition: 52.212-1 - Instructions to Offerors - Commercial; 52.212-4 - Contract Terms and Conditions. Offerors must include a completed copy of the provision 52.212-3 - Offeror Representations and Certifications - Commercial Items with their offer. All documents related to this procurement will be available via the NASA Internet Acquisition Service (NAIS). The documents will reside on a World Wide Web server, which may be accessed using client browsers such as MOSAIC or Netscape. The WWW address, or Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of the Lewis Research Center Procurement Home Page is http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/Procure/home.htm. Offers will be evaluated and award made to that responsible offeror whose offer is determined to meet the requirements and to be the lowest overall cost to the Government, price and other factors considered. All responsible sources may submit an offer which will be considered. (0078)

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