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L -- INTEGRATION AND OPERATIONS OF SPACE SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS SOL 9-BV2-55-97-05P DUE 043097 POC Christine L. Mack, Contract Specialist, Phone 281-483-1244, Fax 281-244-5109, Email cmack@ba1.jsc.nasa.gov -- James P. Gips, Contracting Officer, Phone (281) 483-5998, Fax (281) 244-5707, Email jgips@ems.jsc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/JSC/date.html#9-BV2-55-97-05P. E-MAIL: Christine L. Mack, cmack@ba1.jsc.nasa.gov. NASA/JSC is hereby soliciting information for potential sources for human spaceflight payload integration and operations, including mission management, analytical and physical payload integration, flight crew training, procedures development, and real-time flight operations support, of space science experiments in a pressurized habitable space science laboratory in the Space Shuttle Payload Bay. A firm-fixed-price contract is contemplated with a completion-date two to four years from award. The contractor shall be responsible for two science missions priced for launch dates in the time period from May 1999 to May 2000 for the first mission, and June 2000 to June 2001 for the second mission. Three firm options will be included for three additional missions, on roughly one year centers, beyond the year 2001. Spacelab equipment and facilities will be made available for use, if needed. Alternate proposals for other pressurized science laboratories will be considered by the Government. The basic missions will occur during the early Space Station assembly period and 90 percent of the science hardware will be Materials Science Laboratory (MSL) and Neurolab reflight. The first two option missions are anticipated to include 50 percent new science hardware, and the last option mission is anticipated to include 100 percent new science hardware. Interested offerors/vendors having the required specialized capabilities to meet the above requirement should submit a capability statement of 5 pages or less indicating the ability to perform all aspects of the effort described herein. This synopsis is for information and planning purposes and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government nor will the Government pay for information solicited. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the evaluation. Respondents deemed fully qualified will be considered in any resultant solicitation for the requirement. Firms responding should indicate whether they are a socially or economically disadvantaged business firm,an 8(a) firm, a small business, and/or woman-owned business. The Government reserves the right to consider a small business or 8(a) set-aside based on responses hereto. All responses shall be submitted to identified point of contact no later than April 22, 1997. In responding reference 9-BV2-55-97-05P. Any referenced numbered notes can be viewed at the following URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nnotes.htm. (0106)

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