Johnson Engineering Corporation, 555 Forge River Road, Suite 150, Webster, TX 77598-4336

99 -- MISCELLANEOUS POC Timothy F. Short, Subcontract Administrator, 281/480-8101X563, Fax: 281/461-9907 Johnson Engineering Corporation (JE) is a prime contractor (NAS9-18800) to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) at Johnson Space Center (JSC), Houston, TX. JE is required to provide Neutral Buoyancy, 1-G, and Crew Training Articles, sub to full scale, for the International Space Station and Space Shuttle programs to support development and integration of technologies, hardware systems, flight procedures, flight equipment subsystems, components, operations, and training of astronauts. JE is seeking subcontractors that can provide engineering, design, fabrication, and build-to-print services for mock-ups and trainers. Typical mock-ups and trainers are as follows: 1) Soft Mock-ups: Designed for ease of mobility and assembly/disassembly to support engineering design evaluations and are usually built non-functional, low fidelity, and at low cost for one time use. Typical materials include wood, plastic, foamcore, and gatorboard. 2) Hard Mock-ups: Designed to meet user requirements which include engineering evaluations, man-machine interface and habitability characteristics to provide optimum design of flight hardware, astronaut training, and are built functional (mechanical or electrical) or non-functional, high fidelity and for repetitive use. Typical materials include stainless steel, aluminum, wood, fiberglass, and plastic. 3) 1-G Trainers: Designed to support astronaut/flight crew training, engineering verification, and are built to flight assembly dimensions, appearance, and functionality. Tradeoffs are often considered when flight parameters become economically or physically unfeasible. Typical materials are generally characteristic of the flight material but not necessarily of the same grade or specification and include aluminum, steel, wood, fiberglass, plastic, and fabric. 4) Neutral Buoyancy Trainers: Designed to be utilized and submerged in a chlorinated water, enclosed pool environment and are built as volumetric representations to high fidelity trainers, providing 0-G conditions to train the astronauts for Extravehicular Activities (EVA), and for ease of maintenance. Typical materials, coatings and components must be compatible with the pool environment and typically consist of perforated/structural aluminum, Kydex, stainless steel, fabric, fiberglass, corrosion resistant coatings, and 300 series stainless steel fasteners. Interested companies are requested to submit a Statement of Capabilities (SOC) (see below), facilities description, equipment list, and a published price list or fully burdened rates by September 12, 1997. Qualified companies must demonstrate the capability or the ability to acquire the capability to meet or exceed the following minimum requirements: 1) Engineering resources for mechanical and electrical design, structural analysis, systems engineering, software development, and drafting/AutoCAD Version 14 or Pro-Engineer Release 17 or 18. 2) Program/project management. 3) Configuration and logistics management. 4) Quality assurance and control. State if ISO9000 Certified. 5) Office and manufacturing /shop facilities, Include in the SOC; shop ceiling heights, high bay door sizes, overhead crane and material handling equipment, and paint shop/equipment. 6) Fabrication capability, including size constraints, fabrication processes, e.g. rolling, forming machining, and welding. 7) Identify what processes are subcontracted. Include any additional information that you feel is necessary to demonstrate your company's capability and indicate your company business status (SDB/WOB) in the SOC. To be considered as a prospective supplier, 70% or more of the work described above must be accomplished in-house. Submissions that lack any of the requested information will not be considered for subcontract opportunities. JE does not intend to pay for information received as a result of this synopsis. (0233)

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