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

16 -- AEROSPACE FABRICATION AND ASSEMBLY SUPPORT SOL 9-BE13-39-7-10P DUE 110896 POC Contract Specialist: Krystine Bui, (713) 483-4186 Contract Officer: Keith D. Hutto, (713) 483-4165 NASA/JSC plans to issue a Request for Offer (RFO) for Aerospace fabrication and Assembly Support. The contractor shall produce, inspect and deliver hardware items that shall be identified in individual task orders to be issued under the basic contract. The contractor will be required to perform metal cutting, metal forming, heat treating, surface treatment, and mechanical assembly and welding/brazing/soldering. The Government intends to award multiple contracts from this solicitation. Selection will be based on value characteristics which are outlined in the RFO. This procurement is being conducted under the NASA/JSC MidRange Pilot Test Program approved by the Office of Federal Procurement Policy on April 16, 1993. This procurement is a small business set-aside. 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 11/8/96. If there are any questions, the contract specialist may be contacted via E-mail at Krystine.Bui@jsc.nasa.gov or by phone at (713) 483-4186 or the contracting officer may be contacted via E-mail at Keith.D.Hutto@jsc.nasa.gov or by phone at (713) (0310)

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