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A -- PEGASUS LAUNCH SERVICES FOR THE WING GLOVE EXPERIMENT SOL RFO4-97002-SNP DUE 121296 POC POC: Salomon Perea, Contracting Officer, Phone (805) 258-3337, Fax (805) 258-2094, Email Salomon_Perea@qmgate.dfrc.nasa.gov WEB: Dryden Flight Research Center Procurement Home Page, http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Procure. NASA/DFRC plans to issue a Request for Offer (RFO) for launch services for the Wing Glove Experiment Activities include Wing Glove and Pegasus mission planning, pre-flight preparations, launch, powered flight up to the completion of Stage 1 burnout and separation, and completion of the post flight report. This procurement is being conducted under the NASA MidRange Pilot Test Program approved by the Office of Federal Procurement Policy. NASA/DFRC intends to purchase the items from Orbital Sciences Corporation of Dulles, Virginia, which is the designer and manufacturer of the rocket-powered Pegasus launch vehicle as well as its sole operator. See Numbered Note 26. Interested firms have 15 days from publication on the NAIS (or Commerce Business Daily (CBD) if over $500K) to submit their qualifications/capabilities. Such qualifications/capabilities will be used solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. Responses received after 15 days without the required information will be considered nonresponsive to the synopsis and will not be considered. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract, on a full and open competitive basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government. Firm date for receipt of offers will be stated in the RFO. All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency. (0344)

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