NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 217, Greenbelt, MD 20771

A -- GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM ATTITUDE AND NAVIGATION SENSOR SOL RFO5-08562-232 DUE 040897 POC Diane Scherer, Contract Specialist, Phone (301)286-5971, Fax (301)286-1720, Email Diane.B.Scherer.1@gsfc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/GSFC/date.html#RFO5-08562-232. E-MAIL: Diane Scherer, Diane.B.Scherer.1@gsfc.nasa.gov. NASA/GSFC plans to issue a Request for Offer (RFO)5-08562-232 on a competitive basis for a Global Position System (GPS) Attitude and Navigation Sensor (GANS). The contractor shall provide the personnel, facilities and materials to design, fabricate, assemble, develop, test and calibrate the GANS for use on the Earth Orbiter-1(EO-1) spacecraft. The GANS will be used to provide spacecraft navigation and attitude information throughout the mission. The GANS shall provide three axis attitude, position, velocity, ephemeris, and GPS time data within the required specifications without any initialization from the ground. The GANS shall send an internally generated health status word that can be used to monitor the integrity of GANS subsystem and the data it provides. GANS performance shall be achieved under the following nominal operating conditions with selective availability (SA) enabled in any circular, low Earth orbit (LEO) whose radius is less than 1000 Km. This procurement is being conducted under the NASA MidRange Pilot Test Program approved by the Office of Federal Procurement Policy. See Numbered Note 26. All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency. The anticipated release date of the RFO is on or about April 15, 1997, with an anticipated offer due date of on or about May 15, 1997. An ombudsman has been appointed -- See Note "B". The solicitation and any documents related to this procurement will be available over the Internet. These documents will be in ASCII or RTF format and will reside on a World-Wide Web (WWW) server, which may be accessed using a WWW browser application. The WWW address, or URL, of the NASA/GSFC Business Opportunities home page is http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/GSFC/class.html. Prospective offerors shall notify this office of their intent to submit an offer. It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor this site for the release of the solicitation and amendments (if any). Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of the solicitation and amendments (if any). Hard copies may be obtained from the identified point of contact; however, the closing date for the hard copy received shall be the same as the solicitation, inclusive of any amendments, released on the Internet. Any referenced numbered notes can be viewed at the following URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nnotes.htm. (0083)

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