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A -- QUALIFICATION AND PLANNING OF SPACE EXPERIMENTS SOL PR FY712196PL3169 POC Robert W. Tyrrell, Contracting Officer, 617-377-2930; Therese C. Pierce; Contract Specialist, 617-377-2414; Dr. Edmond Murad, Technical Contact, PL/GPIX, 617-377-3176. Research and Development sources are sought to support the Phillips Laboratory Geophysics Directorate, Ionospheric Effects Division (PL/GPI) to undertake structural, thermal, and/or performance analyses of experiments to be conducted aboard space-borne vehicles, to include examining the design of optical instruments (e.g., spectrographs and imagers) to evaluate their performance relative to requirements established by the Air Force. This task may require the analysis of data from previous space-borne experiments and will require close collaboration with Phillips Laboratory contractors (who build the instruments) and NASA payload managers (who oversee their integration). The work requires thorough understanding of failure and safety analyses, optics and optical instrumentation, space experiment design, space-to-ground data transmission, and scientific data processing and reduction. The task may require extensive travel, especially during space flight of the experiments. Interested potential sources should respond by indicating their ability to meet the following screening criteria: (1) a demonstrated working knowledge of safety requirement of manned NASA space-flight missions; (2) a demonstrated working knowledge (both basic and applied) of optics and optical design and its application in space-borne measurements. The level of effort is estimated to be two man years per year. Period of performance is estimated to be sixty (60) months to begin in the fourth quarter of FY96. It is estimated that 50% of the work will be performed at Phillips Laboratory, Hanscom AFB, MA, and necessary working space will be provided for two (2) people. Offerors interested in documenting their capabilities to perform the work should reference Purchase Request FY712196PL3169 in responding to the Deputy for Small Business, Attn: ESC/BC, Mr. Alan Hart, 275 Randolph Road, Hanscom AFB, MA 01731-2818. Information on file at ESC/BC must be supplemented to document the capabilities in the above stated areas. Organizations not registered must submit complete qualifying information. Offerors should list persons from customer firms whom the Air Force may contact to verify applicable work experience and performance. Firms should also indicate their status if qualified as socially or economically disadvantaged. Each offeror responding to this synopsis is requested to submit with its reply a name and telephone number for a point of contact. Respondents must specify in their response whether they are a large business, small business, small disadvantaged business, 8(a) concern, or women-owned small business and also specify whether they are a U.S. or foreign-owned firm. The Government will solicit those firms meeting the screening criteria in this synopsis. Organizations responding to this sources sought synopsis will not be notified as to whether or not they meet the screening criteria. Any offeror initially judged to be unqualified will be provided a copy of the solicitation upon request and any offer such a firm may submit will be evaluated without prejudice. An Ombudsman has been appointed to hear concerns from offerors or potential offers during the proposal development phase of this acquisition. The Ombudsman should be contacted with issues or problems that have previously been brought to the attention of the program manager and/or the contracting officer and could not be satisfactorily resolved at that level. The Ombudsman does not participate in the evaluation of the proposals or in the source selection process. The Ombudsman is Col. Claude E. Messamore, Jr., ESC/IG, 617-377-5106. This synopsis is for information and planning purposes, does not constitute an IFB or RFP, and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government. Closing date for submission of the responses is thirty (30) days from the publication of this notice. See Numbered Note(s): 1, 25. (0096)

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