NASA Ames Research Center, Acquisition Division, Mail Stop 241-1, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000

A -- ON-SITE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANUFACTURING SUPPORT SERVICES, EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR, AND INSTRUMENT CALIBRATION AND REPAIR SERVICES'' SOL RFP2-36263(WLS) DUE 111496 POC Contract Specialist: Wanda L. Snyder, (415)604-4696, Fax: (415)604-4646; Contracting Officer: Dolores M. Morrison, (415) 604-1071, Fax: (415)604-4646 Provide services to support research and development activities at Ames Research Center as follows: 1) provide high quality support for the manufacture, fabrication, modification, and repair of experimental research models and hardware, in order to meet the Center's test programs conducted in the various wind tunnels, simulators, cen trifuges, and research aircraft located at NASA-Ames; 2) provide for the fabrication, modification and repair of electronic research hardware; 3) provide equipment maintenance and repair of all shop equipment, to insure high precision, safe and properly maintained equipment in order to meet the Center's prototype hardware and manufac turing needs; and 4) provide calibration and repair services for instruments and tools used at NASA-Ames. The aircraft, spaceflight, or man rated experimental hardware may include, but not be limited to, experimental research equipment, models, model supports, facility hardware and systems. Tasks will range from working on unique, technically sophisticated equipment to simple routine work.The contractor shall be fam iliar with the properties and manufacturing characteristics of at least the following materials: carbon steels, stainless steels, aluminum, alloy steels, brass, copper, bronze, nickel, monel, invar, Molybdenum, titanium, plastic, and ceramics, and be familiar with surface mount and through hole technology and PCB manufacturing. The services which include on-site mechanical prototype manufacturing, on-site electronic prototype manufacturing, machinery maintenence and repair, instrumenta tion calibration and repair will be used to support the research efforts at NASA-ARC in the following areas: Aeronautics, Space Sciences, Center Operations and Aeroflightdynamics and will essentially be performed at the Manufacturing Division, Research & Development (R&D) Shops and Calibration Lab at NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000. A Sources Sought Synopsis for RFP2-36263 was previously published in the Commerce Business Daily, Issue No. 1298, Wednesday, March 8, 1995, amended on January 11, 1996. It is anticipated that the period of performance should not exceed five years, which includes a base year, beginning approximately April 1, 1997, and four one year option periods. The shops have day-shift, swing shift and as an option, graveyard hours of operation, Monday through Friday, five days a week. The contractor shall be familiar with and capable of performing to ISO 9000 standards. The proposed contract listed herein as a 100 small business set-aside under Sic Code 8731. The small business size standard is 1000 employees. The solicitation will be released via the NASA Acquisition Internet Service (NAIS). All sources may download this procurement from the Ames Acquisition Home Page by using the following URL Location: http://128.102.85. 90/acq/acq.html. Hard copies of the solicitation whall be made available upon written request, but the closing date will be the same as that required for the NAIS released solicitation. Verbal requests for hard copies of the solicitation will not be accepted. The projected solicitation release date for Solicita tion RFP2-36263(WLS) is 10/01/96. The estimated date for the preproposal conference and site visit will be October 08, 1996. It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor the NAIS for solicitation release as the solicitation will be released as soon as practicable whether prior or subsequent to the projected date. The expected return date for an offer is 11/14/96. All responsible sources may submit an offer which will be considered by the Agency. This procurement is conducted under NASA Federal Acquisition Regulation procedures. The Home Page contains our synopses, current solicitations, information on the NASA MidRange Program and will have appropriate technical and business points of contact. NASA has established an Ombudsman Program to improve communications with interested parties. For further information, access the Ombudsman link located at http:// procure.arc.nas.gov/ombdsman/html. All requests for copies of solicitation RFP2-36263(WLS) should be in writing and directed to Wanda L. Snyder. Verbal requests will not be accepted. Facsimile requests will be accepted at (415)604-4646. NASA-Ames Research Center has an active Home Page. It is available at the following URL:http://Procure.arc.nasa.gov/ Acq/Acq.html via a worldwide web browser such as Mosaic, Netscape, or similar application. The Home Page contains our synopses, subsequent solicitations, information on the NASA acquisitions, and related helpful information. (0250)

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