NASA, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Procurement Office, Marshall Space Flight Center, AL 35812

66 -- SHEAROGRAPHY SYSTEM SOL 8-Q-6-21-B3047 POC Contact GP22L/Janice M. Stewart, Contract Specialist, 205-544-6093 or GP22C/Teresa A. Foley, Contracting Officer NASA/MSFC plans to issue a Request for Quotation (RFQ) Shearography system -- NASA/MSFC intends to purchase from Cooke Corporation the following items: 1)Etteyer shearing system SHS-94--Head must be smaller than 50x70x120 MM and weigh less than 600 Grams--Must have fiber optic laser light guide to allow high power external beam to illuminate from axis less than 50 MM from imaging axis--System is controlled by a dedicated 80486 pc or better running under Microsoft windows --complete image processing shearography program such as istra or equivalent including source on object programs controls shearography image acquisition and processing -- Head must allow interchangeable lens and be capable of imaging up to a one square meter area--all software and documentation must be in English--This procurement is being conducted under the Simplified Acquisition Threshold (SAT) portion of the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act (FASA) -- Note: This procurement is sole-source based on predominant experience--Interested firms have until May 31, 1996 to submit in writing their qualifications/capabilities in the critical areas mentioned above -- Such qualifications/capabilities will be used solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis -- Responses received after May 31, 1995 or without the required information will be considered nonresponsive to the synopsis and will not be considered -- A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract, on a full and open competitive basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government -- See Numbered Note(s) 22 -- Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice -- Responses must be submitted in writing -- Transmission by facsimile to 205-544-9080 or by Internet e-mail to janice.stewart@msfc.nasa.gov is acceptable -- The solicitation and any related documents to this procurement will be available over the Internet -- These documents will be in ASCII format and reside on a World-Wide Web (WWW) server, which may be accessed using client browsers, such as, MOSAIC -- The WWW address, or URL, of the MSFC Procurement home page is: ''http://procure.msfc.nasa.gov''. (0143)

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