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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF FEBRUARY 10,1998 PSA#2029

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 219, Greenbelt, MD 20771

A -- 5 TO 7 MONTH EXTENSION TO NAS5-31741 FOR SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING SUPPORT FOR THE DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, AND TESTING OF REMOTE SENSORS AND SENSOR SYSTEMS POC Wilma Mooney, Contracting Officer, Phone (301)286-9435, Fax (301)286-1739, Email Wilma.S.Mooney.1@gsfc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://nais.nasa.gov/EPS/GSFC/date.html#5-61558-271. E-MAIL: Wilma Mooney, Wilma.S.Mooney.1@gsfc.nasa.gov. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) plans to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP), on a sole source basis in accordance with 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1), Only One Responsible Source, and 10 U.S.C. 2304(d)1), Unacceptable Delays. NASA/GSFC plans to obtain services from Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI), 5900 Princess Garden Parkway, Ste 300, Lanham, MD 20706, for a five month extension (4/1/98 through 8/31/98) with two one-month options (see * below) (9/1/98 through 10/31/98), to existing contract NAS5-31741. These services are a continuation of scientific and engineering support services for design, development, and testing of remote sensors and sensor systems while the Government's technical requirements are being consolidated and competed. This support includes, but is not limited to, software development related to various modeling applications for GSFC projects such EOS/MODIS, as well as data classification and analysis, research support, mechanical engineering support, design, fabrication, and assembly for electro-optical remote sensing instruments, maintenance and operation of the Systems Evaluation and Development Laboratory (SEDL) and related antenna systems, Landsat instrument payload analysis, including the Enhanced Thematic Mapper (ETM), and, development and refinement of the CARANLYS program. Award to any other source for this 5 to 7 month period would delay NASA's Procurement support services. Such delay would be unacceptable because it would jeopardize the critical milestone schedules for numerous ongoing scientific investigations, including: the Multi-beam laser altimeter design completion (6/98); MOLA-2 contingency operations (3/98 -- 9/98); Antarctic Geophysical Observatory Lidars (Greenland deployment 5/98 and 10/98); Landsat-7 Image Analysis System (IAS)(image assessment system deliverables 4/98 and 7/98); Vegetation Canopy Lidar critical design review (6/98); the MODIS post launch calibration and characterization validation algorithms and analysis support (MODIS launch scheduled for 7/98). This five to seven month extension is required to ensure continuation of support services until the competitive procurement is awarded. The competition has been synopsized and will be procured as a small business set-aside. Draft Statement of Work (DRFP) #DRFP5-61932/266 will be issued during February 1998. (*)The options will only be exercised if the follow-on contract has not been awarded prior to 8/31/98. The support sought is a continuation of work performed by SSAI, under this contract, since May 1, 1992 and is only intended to continue until the follow-on contract is competitively awarded. In accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.302-1, Only One Responsible source, NASA/GSFC intends to obtain these services from Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI), 5900 Princess Garden Parkway, Ste 300, Lanham, Maryland 20706. See numbered Notes 22 and 26. An Ombudsman has been appointed. See Internet Note "B". Any referenced notes can be viewed at the following URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nnotes.htm. (0037)

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