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J -- RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT SUPPORT SOL 1-137-GH.2959 DUE 101597 POC David H. Jones, Contract Specialist, Phone (757)-864-2421, Fax (757) 864-7898, Email D.H.JONES@larc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/LaRC/date.html#1-137-GH.2959. E-MAIL: David H. Jones, D.H.JONES@larc.nasa.gov. NASA/LaRC plans to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for Research Instrument and Measurement Support to NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia. These services consist of three areas with the approximate percentage of effort as follows: daily support services for Instrument Calibration, Repair, and Maintenance, (40%); Data Acquisition, Analysis, and Measurement Support Engineering, (45%); Automated Data Processing Equipment Maintenance and Repair, (15%). The level of support is estimated at 115 work years per year. The majority of this effort will be performed at the contractor's facility; however, regular visits to LaRC facilities and occasional remote site field tests (e.g., Wallops Flight Facility, Dryden Flight Research Center etc.) will be necessary to satisfy full task requirements. Support will be provided primarily for first shift operations, but some second and third shift work is required; therefore, the contractor should be prepared to perform emergency repair and support work on a 24-hour, 7-day week basis. An estimated 20 percent of the staff should have secret clearance for access to restricted areas. Instrument Calibration, Repair, and Maintenance: The daily work involves pickup, delivery, repair, calibration, and maintenance of instruments, transducers, and sensors, plus the acceptance testing of a range of selected transducers and sensors; maintaining records of instrument history; operating receipt and inspection facilities; and operating a Measurement Assurance Program for LaRC and NASA with measurement traceability to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The current inventory of LaRC equipment includes 83,000+ instruments that are used in a wide range of applications: pressure/flow, force/moment/displacement, electrical, thermal, automated data processing equipment, and general purpose test equipment. The aggregate initial cost of procurement for this Government owned equipment is $350,000,000. Data Acquisition, Analysis, and Measurement Support Engineering: Data Acquisition, Analysis, and Measurement Support Engineering services are required to support measurement applications and research testing in LaRC's experimental and research test facilities and at off-site test locations. These services require the contractor to provide hardware and software engineering support to data systems used for facility research measurement and testing; to support the development and application of measurement science instrumentation; to support the LIDAR program, which consists of laser applications for atmospheric science studies, the aircraft noise research programs, inclusive of associated field tests and human factors studies, and other LaRC research activities, as required; to evaluate measurement requirements and apply instruments and systems to satisfy research measurement objectives; to design, develop, install, implement, modify, upgrade and maintain software and hardware systems for integrated facility data acquisition and control systems; and to develop and installspecialized field test equipment. In support of some LaRC test programs, the contractor must operate data acquisition systems, process/reduce raw data to an interpretable format, analyze resulting test data, generate test procedures, and provide error analysis. The contractor will be required to support research measurement and data acquisition systems and provide the above-mentioned operations/support services at off-site and on-site locations, as directed by the Government. Data Acquisition, Analysis, and Measurement Support Engineering requires expertise in real-time data acquisition, graphical user display, computation, and control system interfacing. It also requires expertise in analysis and documentation of requirements, system hardware and software design, application of commercial hardware and software systems/ subsystems, prototype unit fabrication and test, software coding and device driver development, systems integration and testing, measurement uncertainty and test techniques, system life cyclemaintenance, total systems documentation, user training, quality assurance, systems administration and configuration control, and the operation of facility data systems and field test equipment. ADPE Maintenance and Repair: The ADPE maintenance support involves the hardware maintenance and repair of designated computers, workstations, and board level components associated with data acquisition, field test, and facility control systems at LaRC, except the Central Computer and the Business Systems complexes. This support, at a minimum, applies to over 300 personal computers, 500 scientific workstations and file servers, inclusive of 100 proprietary and open architecture MODCOMP computers, and computer systems/components from DEC, SUN, HP, SGI, MOTOROLA, and a variety of VME/VXI and SBus/ISA/EISA computer systems, boards and components. This support also requires ADPE systems receipt and inspection, installation, configuration control, maintenance to current revision level, maintenance of diagnostics, systems integration, testing, and documentation. Although the total quantity of equipment requiring ADPE maintenance support service is currently estimated to be 930 systems, or 5,000 units, including peripherals, maintenance support service will also be required on most new data acquisition related ADPE added at Langley during the period of performance of this contract. An estimated 10 percent of the aforementioned equipment inventory will require priority services. For these priority systems, the hardware revision, operating system, diagnostics, and documentation must be maintained at latest revision levels. Priority service also requires that downtime not exceed 4 hours on a designated subset of this equipment, with downtime not exceeding 24 hours on the remainder. See Numbered Note 26. The anticipated release date of RFP 1-137-GH.2959 is on or about September 15, 1997, with an anticipated proposal due date of on or about October 15, 1997. A draft RFP will be issued on or about August 1, 1997. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered by the agency. 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/LaRC Business Opportunities page is http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/LaRC/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. (0203)

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