NASA, Johnson Space Center, BE13, Houston, TX 77058

A -- CAN (COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT NOTICE) 9BE13-26-6-21P, AMENDMENT 2, ISSEC (INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION AS AN ENGINEERING CENTER) SOL 9-BE13-26-6-21P DUE 072996 POC Contract Specialist: Ann S. Sullivan, (713) 483-1863 Contract Officer: Ann S. Sullivan, (713) 483-1863 NASA/JSC plans to issue a CAN (Cooperative Agreement Notice) to solicit proposals for Cooperative Agreements for technology investigations (also called experiments)that can be performed on the International Space Station (ISS), and to implement on-orbit facilities that support one or more of these experiments. NASA is sponsoring this CAN as part of the ISS utilization program. The ISSEC program goals are to maximize the use of the ISS as a unique on-orbit laboratory and to foster interactions with other U.S. Government, industrial, and academic communities. The ISS will be used for long duration and reconfigurable development of technology products that validate new concepts for civilian space activities. The ISSEC program intends to indentify, and define innovative technology concepts, develop these concepts into flight experiments, and perform the necessary laboratory-scale investigations on-board the ISS to validate the physical characteristics advanced by these concepts. The ISSEC program will promote the fast track implementation of these experiments (i.e., a 2-year award to flight readiness cycle). At the same time, the ISSEC program intends to obtain proposals for the implementation of facilities which can provide the necessary support for one or more experiments to operate without duplication of functions. Experiment proposals will be solicited for the following technology categories: Advanced Instruments; Commercial Remote Sensing; Communications; Information Systems; Life Support Systems; Power; Propulsion; Space Environment and Effects; Structures and Mechanisms; Telerobotics and Operations; and Thermal Management. Facility proposals may include support for one or more experiments in more than one of these technology categories. See numbered note 26. All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency. An ombudsman has been appointed to hear concerns from offers 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. The RFO will be released on or about July 29, 1996. If there are any questions, the contract specialist may be contacted via E-mail at Ann S. Sullivan@jsc.nasa.gov or by phone at (713) 483-1863 or the contracting officer may be contacted via E-mail at Ann S. Sullivan@jsc.nasa.gov or by phone at (713) 483-1863. (0208)

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