NASA Goddard Space Flight Center POES/GOES Procurement Office, Code 214.2

A -- ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETER/3 (AVHRR/3) SOL RFP5-53458-431 POC Joseph Fasula, Contract Specialist, (301) 286-3230 John Baniszewski, Contracting Officer, (301) 286-3230. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center intends to issue RFP5-53458-431 to ITT Aerospace Communications, 1919 West Cook Road, P.O. Box 3700, Fort Wayne, IN 46801, pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1)--ONLY ONE RESPONSIBLE SOURCE. NASA/GSFC requires the Contractor to provide one Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer/3 (AVHRR/3), including pre-launch test and space integration support for flight on the METOP/2 meteorological satellite. The AVHRR/3 is a channel radiometer, sensing in both visible and infrared frequencies. ITT has designed and fabricated the AVHRR/2 & 3 instrument series. As such, ITT has the expertise and familarity gained through proto-flight development, flight build, and flight worthy maintenance. Such expertise is essential to maintain program continuity and minimize cost and schedule slips. This AVHRR/3 instrument must be interchangeable, in all ways, (e.g. size, weight, power, performance, shape, data content and format, EMI character, connection pin assignments, and heat transfer) with the NOAA N and N'/METOP/1 series of instruments currently being built by ITT. This effort must be completed so that the instrument is ready for integration with the METOP/2 spacecraft by the year 2000. This will ensure continuity in the flow of operational data used for environmental studies and weather forecasting. No other source is known to have the capacity to meet the Government's requirements under the current launch schedule and budget constraints. Any qualified or responsible parties are requested to fully identify their interest and capabilities within 15 days of publication of this synopsis to the NASA/GSFC Contract Specialist cited above. See Numbered Note(s): 12, 22. (0267)

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