NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 214.1, Greenbelt, MD 20771

A -- NEXT GENERATION SPACE TELESCOPE (NGST) MISSION ARCHITECTURE STUDIES SOL RFO5-02942-352 POC Gifford Moak, Contracting Officer, Phone (301)286-8237, Fax (301)286-1712, Email Gifford.P.Moak.1@gsfc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/GSFC/date.html#RFO5-02942-352. E-MAIL: Gifford Moak, Gifford.P.Moak.1@gsfc.nasa.gov. NASA/GSFC plans to issue a Request for Offer (RFO) for Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST) Mission Architecture Studies. The Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST) is under study by NASA as an important scientific tool with the Origins program. The current yardstick concept for "visiting a time when galaxies were young" is a 6 to 8 meter aperture cold telescope instrumented for imaging and spectorscopy, optimized for the 1 to 5 micron band but with desired coverage from visible to thermal infrared, operating at L2 and communicating with a dedicated ground station for 5 or more years. General information on the NGST program can be found on the NGST Web Page at http://ngst.gsfc.nasa.gov/ This procurement is focused on development of one or more mission architecture concepts and accompaining lifecycle cost estimates. It is anticipated that this procurement will result in multiple awards. The contracts are expected to be Firm Fixed Price. The procurement has a basic effort of development of a concept and a Technology Development Roadmap and two options. The first option will be for the further development of the concept and the second option will be for the funding of advance technologies integral to the successful execution of the NGST project. 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 May 20, 1997 with an anticipated offer due date of on or about June 20, 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. (0125)

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