PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY FOR AVIATION HAZARD SUITE (AHS) MISSION NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is seeking an industry partner(s) to develop design concepts for one or two instruments for the Aviation Hazard Satellite (AHS) and support the development of a proposal to respond to the NASA Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for the Earth Science System Pathfinder(ESSP) Program. Additional information about ESSP can be accessed at http://fpd-b8-0001.gsfc.nasa.gov/408/408home.htm. It is expected that primary selection of the AHS Mission under the AO and the availability of funds would result in an instrument contract for the selected partner(s); (please note that funds are not currently available). GSFC's plans to select a partner(s) using the following steps: 1) issue Partnership Opportunity Document, which includes a mission overview of AHS, instrument specifications, and instructions about how to respond to this partnership opportunity; 2) schedule oral presentations; 3) receive presentation packages from interested Partnership Opportunity Document respondents; 4) conduct oral presentations, May 7, 1998; 5) evaluate oral and written presentations; and 6) select and notify industry partner(s) prior to the ESSP Step 1 Proposal submission on May 15, 1998. GSFC intends to release the Partnership Opportunity Document via the internet, on April 27, 1998. All Partnership Opportunity Document respondents who intend to make an oral presentation must provide written or electronic notice by no later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, May 1, 1998. Notice shall be by e-mail to Tammy Brown at tammy.brown@ gsfc.nasa.gov, or in writing to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Attention: Tammy Brown, Code 554, Building 11, Room E7, Greenbelt, MD 20771. All Partnership Opportunity Document respondents shall deliver 10 copies of their complete oral presentation packages to Ms. Brown at the above address by no later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, May 5, 1998. Contact Ms. Brown at 301-286-8119, if you have any questions or require additional information. This Partnership Opportunity Document does not represent a guarantee of selection for hardware development. GSFC does not currently have a requirement for these instruments or funds available to support their development. In responding to this notice please reference "AHS Partnership Opportunity Document." This solicitation/synopsis is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government, nor will the Government pay for the information solicited. An ombudsman has been appointed -- See Internet Note "B". The documents for this partnership opportunity will be in Microsoft Office Suite (Word 6.0, Excel 5.0, or PowerPoint 4.0) 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. It is the offerors' responsibility to monitor this cite for the release of the Partnership Opportunity Document and amendments (if any). Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of the Partnership Opportunity Document and amendments, if any. Any referenced notes can be viewed at the following URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nnotes.htm. WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://nais.nasa.gov/EPS/GSFC/date.html#219-AHS-POD-255. E-MAIL: Claudette Parent, Claudette.D.Parent.1@gsfc.nasa.gov.

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