NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Headquarters Acquisition Branch, Code 210.H, Greenbelt, MD 20771

Q -- SOLE-SOURCE TIME EXTENSION FOR OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE SERVICES AT NASA HEADQUARTERS SOL NASW4793 POC Carol S. Bleile, Contracting Officer, Phone (301) 286-0792, Fax (301) 286-0356, Email carol.s.bleile@gsfc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/HQ/date.html#NASW4793. E-MAIL: Carol S. Bleile, carol.s.bleile@gsfc.nasa.gov. NASA/HQ plans a sole-source extension to the current contract, NASW-4793, with Analytical Sciences, Inc., of Durham, North Carolina, who currently provides comprehensive occupational medicine services for NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. This action is for a contract extension for a five-month basic period from February 1, 1998, through June 30, 1998, and three one-month options. This extension will allow sufficient time for a competitive follow-on procurement to be completed for these services. Analytical Sciences, Inc. is the only source capable of providing these services, because NASA Headquarters cannot experience a lapse in the services due to, but not limited to, the following: 1. Medical monitoring and surveillance for employees who are stressed due to downsizing, 2. Foreign travel immunization necessary to support critical foreign travel requirements, and 3. The employee assistance program that provides confidential assistance to employees, which is on-going and cannot be terminated without affecting the employees' health and welfare. Therefore, no other contractor could perfrom these requirements without prior extensive on-the-job training. The statutory authority for this sole-source action is 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1), Only One Responsible Source. Companies, however, that believe they can provide these services for this extension period without any detrimental impact to NASA Headquarters should fully identify their interest and capabilities within 15 days from publication on the NAIS or Commerce Business Daily. Such capabilities will be used solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this contract extension on a competitive basis. Responses received after 15 days or without the required information will be considered nonresponsive to the synopsis and will not be considered. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract extension on a full and open competitive basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. See numbered Note 22. A five year follow-on contract is currently being competed for these services as a 100 percent small business set-aside. An Ombudsman has been appointed. See Internet Note "B". (0336)

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