NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Wallops Flight Facility, Code 218, Wallops Island, VA 23337

A -- NASA SOUNDING ROCKET OPERATIONS CONTRACT (NSROC) SOL DRFP5-10065-605 DUE 061397 POC Caroline Massey, Contracting Officer, Phone (757)824-1959, Fax (757)824-1974, Email Caroline.R.Massey.1@gsfc.nasa.gov -- Jay Savage, Contract Specialist, Phone (757)824-1276, Fax (757)824-1974, Email Kenneth.J.Savage.1@gsfc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/GSFC/date.html#DRFP5-10065-605. E-MAIL: Caroline Massey, Caroline.R.Massey.1@gsfc.nasa.gov. The NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) plans to issue a Draft Request for Proposal (DRFP) for the NASA Sounding Rocket Operations Contract (NSROC) which will provide all services and supplies necessary to implement the NASA Sounding Rocket Program at the WFF. The goals of a restructured and privatized NASA Sounding Rocket Program have been fully described in the synopsis posted 2/25/97 at this site. NASA has completed a Request for Information (RFI) process whereby several members of industry (listed as RFI Firms) provided general input on the planned aspects of this acquisition. This DRFP will be issued to solicit industry's comments on the requirements, planned terms and conditions of the contract, instructions for proposal preparation, and evaluation approaches. Potential offerors are specifically requested to identify unecessary or inefficient requirements, and any barriers to the implementation of the program in a cost effective, performance based manner. For this effort, the Contractor will be required to design, fabricate, and flight qualify (test) suborbital payloads, and provide all launch operations for those payloads to support NASA sounding rocket missions. The contract will also include Service-level-Agreement (SLA) support not directly related to the NASA Sounding Rocket Program in the following general areas: fabrication; environmental testing; and engineering and special studies. The NSROC will also facilitate the marketing of WFF resources and capabilties. The planned contract is structured on a cost reimbursement, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) basis with incentive fee and award fee provisions. The NASA sounding rocket portion of the contract will require a minimum of 10 to a maximum of 35 sub-orbital launches per year including the transition of missions in progress at the time of contract award. Mission production times will vary substantially and may range from 6 months to 2 years or longer. The number of missions in progress at any giventime, therefore, may vary from the minimum and maximum amounts specified above. The anticipated release date of the DRFP is on or about May 30, 1997. All comments on the DRFP must be submitted by electronic, facsimile, or written format to the Contracting Officer by the close of business June 13, 1997. The Government does not intend to hold an industry workshop as part of the DRFP process. The Government plans to issue the final RFP on or about June 27, 1997. The Government intends to conduct a site visit and open a procurement library as part of the final RFP process. Comments on the DFRP are not mandatory. The use of industry comments to structure the final RFP is at the discretion of the Government. Any subsequent RFP will be synopsized prior to its release. In accordance with FAR 52.215-3, Solicitation for Information or Planning Purposes (APR 1984), the Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this DRFP, or to otherwise pay for the information solicited. The draft solicitation and any further documents related to this procurement will be available over the Internet at this site location. The previous location described by RFI5-XXXXX1-605 (by the original posted date of 2/25/97) will contain no further updates. The information available at the previous posted date will be incorporated into this site. 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 page is http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/GSFC/class.html. It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor this site for the release of the DRFP and amendments (if any). Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of the DRFP and amendments (if any). Any referenced numbered notes can be viewed at the following URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nnotes.htm. See Numbered Note 26. An ombudsman has been appointed -- See Note "B" (0120)

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