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15 -- T-38 AIRCRAFT REDESIGNED INLET NACELLE SKINS SOL 9-BL2-12-7-04P POC Nancy A. Robb, Contract Specialist, Phone (281) 244-9923, Fax (281) 244-9907, Email nrobb@ba1.jsc.nasa.gov -- Alice J. Pursell, Contracting Officer, Phone (281) 244-9922, Fax (281) 244-9907, Email apursell@ba1.jsc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/JSC/date.html#9-BL2-12-7-04P. E-MAIL: Nancy A. Robb, nrobb@ba1.jsc.nasa.gov. NASA/JSC is seeking sources for fabrication of aircraft engine inlet nacelle skins. The release of a Request For Offer for the fabrication of skins for redesigned T-38 aircraft engine inlet nacelle skins is anticipated by May 1997. Drawings of the aluminum skins will become available in mid-April 1997 and the RFO will be released shortly after completion of the drawings. The first shipset of hardware (first article) is required by September 1997. After acceptance of the first article, which will require installation on an aircraft and completion of a flight test, fabrication of an additional 31 shipsets will be required. Interested sources may contract Nancy Robb. This perspective procurement is being conducted under the NASA/JSC MidRange Pilot Test Program approved by the Office of Federal Procurement Policy on April 16, 1993. An ombudsman has been appointed to hear concerns from offerors 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 my 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://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/JSC/date.html" 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. The RFO will be released on or about May 1, 1997. If there are any questions, the contract specialist may be contracted via E-mail at nancy.a.robb1@jsc.nasa.gov or by phone on (281) 244-9923 or the contracting officer may be contacted via E-mail at alice.j.pursell1@jsc.nasa.gov or by phone on (281) 244-9922. (0092)

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