NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 219, Greenbelt, MD 20771

A -- SUPPORT FOR TOMS SCIENCE DATA OPERATIONS SOL RFO5-60954-254 DUE 033197 POC Sandy Shin, Contract Specialist, Phone (301)286-9435, Fax (301)286-1739, Email Sangok.S.Shin.1@gsfc.nasa.gov -- Claudette Parent, Contracting Officer, Phone (301)286-6584, Fax (301)286-0237, Email Claudette.D.Parent.1@gsfc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/GSFC/date.html#RFO5-60954-254. E-MAIL: Sandy Shin, Sangok.S.Shin.1@gsfc.nasa.gov. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) plans to issue a Request for Offer (RFO)5-60954-254 on a sole source basis to Huges ST Systems (STX) Corporation. This procurement is being conducted under the NASA MidRange Pilot Test Program approved by the Office of Federal Procurement Policy. This procurement is a continuation of specific support to the Laboratory for Atmospheres. Hughes STX Corporation has provided engineering and scientific support NASA/GSFC's Laboratory for Atmospheres and other related projects since 1978. After the successful launch of the Meteor-3/TOMS FM-2 in August 1991, responsibility for future TOMS missions was transferred to the TOMS Project (Code 450). Hughes STX Corporation will be actively involved in supporting the Japanese launch of ADEOS TOMS and Earth-Probe/TOMS, and the Russian Meteor-3M/TOMS FM-5, currently planned for launch in August 2000. This procurement requires the contractor to provide support for obtaining data from the various TOMS satellites, incorporating in-flight and pre-launch calibration data, and producing scientifically valid data sets along with complete documentation for the data and all associated software. As part of this effort, it is required that the contractor provide scientific, programming, and engineering support for the design and analysis of ultraviolet remote sensing applications including the determination of atmospheric ozone amounts, ultraviolet fluxes at the Earth's surface, and the determination of atmospheric aerosol amounts. This procurement will extend Contract No. NAS5-31755 to May 11, 1998. The extension is necessary to meet critical milestones associated with the two recent launches of the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) instruments and a planned launch with the Russians for a Meteor-3M/TOMS instrument. The Laboratory for Atmospheres also plans to consolidate two related contracts into one support contract. A 10-month sole-source follow-on of the current Hughes STX support will streamline and facilitate this process. Hughes STX is the only company with the specialized experience required to successfully meet critical schedule milestones without delay. Statutory authority for this sole source procurement is 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1) -- Only One Responsible Source. However, companies that believe they can provide these services for this extension period, without any detrimental impact to the program schedules supported by this work, should fully identify their interest and capabilities within 15 days after publication of this synopsis. See Number Note: 22. Interested firms have 15 days from publication on the NAIS (or Commerce Business Daily 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. Any referenced numbered notes can be viewed at the following URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nnotes.htm. (0066)

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