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17 -- EXTRAVEHICULAR ACTIVITY/ROBOTICS HARDWARE DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND FABRICATION SOL 9-BE13-09-7-28P DUE 012497 POC Contract Specialist: Stephanie Hunter, (281) 483-8523 Contract Officer: Lisa Rea Phillips, (281) 483-8395 NASA/JSC plans to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP)for Extravehicular Activity/Extravehicular Robotics hardware design, development, test and fabrication. The contract will include provisions for obtaining hardware not only for existing programs such as Space Station but also for advanced programs such as Lunar Return and Mars programs. The Government may award multiple contacts. The contracts will be indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contracts and work will be authorized via delivery orders which may be either fixed price or cost type. Delivery orders will be competed among selected vendors. The contract will be a one year basic period and have four, one year options. The Government will provide some test facilities/chambers. These will be described in detail in the RFP. The Government intends to make maximum practical use of commerically available hardware however this procurement is not being conducted under FAR part 12. See numbered Note 26. 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, Brian Duffy at 281-483-6050. 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. Hard copies may be obtained from the JSC Industry Assistance Office via phone 281-483-4511 or fax 281-483-4326. The closing date shall be the same as the solicitation released on the Internet. The RFP will be released on or about January 27, 1996. If there are any questions, the contract specialist may be contacted via E-mail at shunter@ems.jsc.nasa.gov or by phone at (281) 483-8523 or the contracting officer may be contacted via E-mail at lrea@ems.jsc.nasa.gov or by phone at (281) 483-8395. (0351)

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