NASA, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Procurement Office, Marshall Space Flight Center, AL 35812

28 -- PROTEIN SAMPLE PLUG SOL 8-W-6-21-62733 DUE 120696 POC Contact Nettie P. Warren, GP24-U/Contract Specialist, 205-544-0301, or Elaine W. Hamner, GP24/Contracting Officer NASA/MSFC plans to issue a Request for Quotation (RFQ) for the fabrication of Protein Sample Plug, DCAM, Polycarbonate material, in accordance with drawings-- This is a Quality Sensitive Requirement -- This procurement is being conducted under the Simplified Acquisition Threshold (SAT) portion of the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act (FASA) -- Requests for copies of the RFQ must be submitted in writing -- Transmission by facsimile to 205-544-9081 or by Internet e-mail to nettie.warren@msfc.nasa.gov is acceptable -- The RFQ will have a 15 day response period -- This procurement is a total small business set-aside -- An ombudsman has been appointed to hear concerns from offerors, potential offerors, and contractors during the preaward and postaward phases of this acquisition -- The purpose of the ombudsman is not to diminish the authority of the contracting officer 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 quotes, the source selection process, or the adjudication of formal contract disputes -- Interested parties are invited to call the installation ombudsman, Susan M. Smith at 205-544-0012 --Concerns, issues, disagreements, and recommendations which cannot be resolved at the installation may be referred to the NASA ombudsman, Thomas S. Luedtke at 202-358-2090 -- Before consulting with any ombudsman, interested parties must try to resolve their concerns with the contract specialist or the contracting officer -- DO NOT CALL THE OMBUDSMAN FOR SOLICITATION REQUESTS/INFORMATION -- See Numbered Note(s) 1 -- The WWW address, or URL, of the MSFC Procurement home page is: ''http://procure.msfc.nasa.gov''. (0325)

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