GOES Procurement Office, Code 214.2

A -- SOLAR X-RAY IMAGER (SXI) INSTRUMENT FOR THE GOES NO/PQ SPACECRAFT SOL RFP5-02504-432 POC Steve Lloyd, Contract Specialist, (301) 286-7898. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center intends to issue Request for Proposal (RFP)5-02504-432 on a competitive basis for the acquisition of Solar X-Ray Imagers (SXI). The SXI images the solar corona in the soft X-ray to far ultra-violet region of the electromagnetic spectrum. Full-disk solar images are provided with 5 arcsec pixels in several wavelength bands from 6 to 60 Angstroms. The SXI telescope is mounted on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) series. The Contractor will design, analyze, develop, fabricate, integrate, test, evaluate and support launch of the SXI as well as supply and maintain the instrument ground support equipment. The basic requirement is for an engineering model, a spacecraft electrical simulator, a mass model, two electrical instrument simulators, and two flight units, with options for two additional flight units. The RFP is expected to be released on or about November 1, 1996. All responsible sources may submit an offer which will be considered. All requests for the RFP must be submitted in writing to Steve Lloyd at Code 214.2, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, or via e-mail to steven.lloyd@gsfc.nasa.gov. The requests for the RFP must be received within 15 days of appearance of this notice. Electronic versions of the documents will be provided on the World Wide Web at http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/procure.htm, and by anonymous ftp to genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/public/web/solicita. (0283)

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